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This is a news and satire page from *Sunday Life* magazine (September 2, 1922). The main content consists of political news briefs and society gossip rather than editorial cartoons. The prominent stories include: - **"Borah Raps Hague Parley"**: Senator William Borah's criticism of diplomatic negotiations, with a House debate ending in a fistfight - **"Crazed Car of Mayor-Run Line Ties Traffic"**: A trolley car accident in Washington, D.C., involving troops called by the Mayor during election unrest - **"Sue" Twill, 18, Seeks Million Heart Balm**: A lawsuit for alleged breach of promise The page satirizes contemporary political chaos (Senate violence, municipal mismanagement) and social scandals. "Sunday Life" was *Life* magazine's society/humor section, mixing serious news with satirical commentary on American institutions and behavior.
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A Paper for People Who Think They Think Sunday VOL. LXXX—2079—WEEKLY NEW YORK, SUNDAY BORAH RAPS HAGUE PARLEY Debate in House Ends in Fist- Fight—Harding Silent (Special Correspondence to Sunday Life) Washington, Sept. 2nd.—To those on the inside who are cognizant of the workings of the mind of the Adminis- tration, the recent defeat of Senator Lisp in Idaho is fraught with signifi- cance. In official circles a discreet silence is maintained, but, as predicted in this column last week, the cool weather has come and with it signs of autumn, The connection between the Lisp de- feat and the Administration’s plans for re-papering the blue room in the White House may not be apparent to one not “in the know,” but from sources close to the President we have information which enables us to state that it is. Guns Are Spiked In an interview with your corres- pondent yesterday Representative Mc- Mee confirmed this impression by refusing to say anything on the matter, but within a few days the situation should have come to a head sufficiently to allow us to give further details. It is regarded here as almost certain that with the passage of the Amble- Kreisgler Bill the anti-Administration forces will have achieved their aim and will have so spiked the guns of Sena- tor R and his fellow Republican members of the Picnic Committee that further developments may be awaited. HEN LAYS ODD EGG WINSTED, Conn., Sept. 2.—The entire city of Winsted is flocking to the farm of Eric T. Ploshfield on the outskirts of this city, where a small Plymouth Rock hen yester- day laid one of the most extraordi- nary eggs ever seen in this part of the country. The hen that laid the egg is her- self a curiosity. Frances, as she is called, was hatched with six other fowl, all of whom, excepting herself, were eagles. Frances pullet started croaking it whistling as is the habit with most local hens. About three months ago she began to shed the blue and green feather markings of the Win- sted Plymouth Rocks and_ turned almost pure white. Next the two small horns on her upper lip shrank away until they were hardly visible. Up till yesterday her eggs have been diamond shape as usual. Yes- terday’s egg is white and oval in shape, Next Monday it will be placed on exhibition in the Elite Drug Store along with the four- legged calf born here week before last. CRAZED CAR OF MAYOR-RUN LINE TIES TRAFFIC Troops, Called by Mayor, Quell Riot as Election Nears A heavy trolley-car of the Writty Beach Air Line ran amuck yesterday afternoon shortly after leaving the curve at Plerman’s Point, and before its wild career had ended against a tree in front of 1745 Bostwick Street seven persons had been bitten and one prostrated by the heat. The car, in charge of Motorman Eliot J. Reefer, of 43 Orchid St. and Con- ductor Thomas Replevin, of 365 Turgid Ave., both Harvard boys, was on its return trip to the city when it be- came unmanageable at the curve and left the track in a huff. Careening along at a speed estimated as about 100 miles an hour, the headstrong car made its way through the crowd of holiday shoppers, snarling and biting and de- liberately frightening women and chil- dren. A hurry call was sent to the State Capital for the militia, but be- fore the troops could arrive the trolley- car was under control, having tried un- successfully to dodge a tree belonging to Robert L. Further, president and WS IN BRIEF Local Commissioner of Ducks Leonard T. Rasmussen states that $3,000 of city’s money is spent each year for graham crackers. Sixty thousand people seek from hurdy-gurdies over holiday. No one jumped from Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. Aged man found asleep in old well, denies having kidnapped Dorothy Ar- nold. relief Domestic Striking longshoremen take part in Daisy Chain Celebration at Vassar. Four men indicted on charge of conspiring to sell the United States to Sweden, Lots of fun had everywhere. Foreign Poincaré denies Franco-American soup pact. Italian troops called out to quell heat wave in Genoa. Germany refuses to pay indemnity installment and France sets fire to Bavaria. pftpftpitpftpftpftpftpitpitpft Six hundred thousand pesetas re- alized by Spanish government on rub- bers left behind by American tourists during the summer. treasurer of the Friendly Sulphur Co., with offices at 34-78 Brown Wharf. Among those sustaining slight bruises was Anatole France, a writer of 16 Rue de la Pompe. March SUNDAY LIFE . Gazette Herald . Times Democrat Monitor To me this day did appear to 3,461,287 47,226,381 731,336 135,442,719 SWORN STATEMENT My commission expired Jan. 30, Sunday Life GAINED in Agate Lines of Advertising From March | to September |, MORE Than All Other Sunday Papers COMBINED Including the SCANDINAVIAN 1922 If the Agate Lines of Advertising Published in SUN- DAY LIFE for the Past Six Months Were Laid End to End, or as the Case May Be, Then the Agate Lines of Advertising Published in SUNDAY LIFE for the Past Six Months Would Be Laid End to End READ THESE ASTONISHING FIGURES TO YOUR CHILDREN 1 Sept. 1 Gain 17,396,284 ey ed 52,691,118 47,239,817 42,325,527 all intents and purposes several people representing SUNDAY LIFE, respectively, and they did posi- tively swear that they had appeared before me, in accordance with the law, and reading from left to right. before me this third day of September in the year 1922. Certified and pasteurized SIMEON PREITZER, Notary Public. 1897. si “SUE” TWILL, 18 SEEKS MILLION HEART BALM “Hello, How’s Ev’ything >” Rich Clubman’s Note Said, Says Girl, —* Error ”—Mullen Bennington, Vt., Sept. 2nd.—Suit for $1,000,000 for alleged breach of promise was filed yesterday by Waldo Gunz, attorney for Miss Susan Mae Twill, eighteen and pretty, against Olaf Mullen, alleged club-man. Miss Twill, a former Sandusky soci- ety girl, avers that she met Mullen while both were attending the leaver's Convention at Toledo in 1874. It is said to have been a case of love at first sight. Since that time, Mullen and the Twill girl have been’ seen constantly together at social get-togethers, always under the chaperonage of Miss Twill’s aunt, it is stated. Attorney Gunz produced letters which tended to support Miss Twill’s alleged statements. They are said to have been written by Mullen during the period that intervened between their first meet- ing and the spring of 1911, when he is alleged to have jilted her, etaoinshrdlu Among the missives, all ardent in tone, included in the batch in Mr. Gunz’s possession, are: I. W. W. Clubhouse, Butte, Mon., June 6th, 1894. “Hello My Little Pal Girl How’s ev’ything? XXXXXXXX Daddy.” Gave Up All for Love “I gave up all for love,” Miss Twill is quoted as saying—“my home, my friends and my social position in (Continued on eighth page) GEM YEGGS BAG BIG LOOT Mayor Broke Vow to Her, Says Rich Victim A woman, giving her name as Bertha Razz, was arrested early today by Pa- trolman Hugh C. Liefe of the 2nd Pre- cient, charged with having been drugged and robbed. She was found wandering in a dazed condition in the Duck Pond and on being clubbed at the station- house admitted that she had had a large sum of money and a quantity of valu- able gems on her person earlier in the day but that some one had taken them from her after giving her a bunch of sponges to smell. One of her assail- ants, according to the woman, said that he was the Mayor and that he wanted to make her a deputy commissioner of playgrounds. Mayor Thurmer, on being called at his home early today, denied ever having made any such promise. The woman is being held on a tech- nical charge of sedition, pending am investigation by the authorities. Wine Acc and and | swept leavin prope partm and h Cor out 0} sands ways day where crop this homes match See mail-t up tr ters ¢ gute said } CAT accor initial Uncle adopt day, the t Int turtle sectio Mr Dose | comicbooks.com