Life — August 25, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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LOCAL SPORTS Plays “Muddy Water” 108 Times Breaking of Reeord Ends Agony After Noisy Hours—Neighbors. Comment WW IIT is believed to bs for continuous playing of « Phonograph Seven v record phonograph record was hung up last night by the J. C. Emerys, third floor west, when their p! raph ‘ound out “Muddy Water” one hun- dred and eight successive times. More than seven hours were re- quired to ran up this total, the con- cert: beginning at five p.m. when Emery got home from the office and ending after midnight when the ree- ord (phonograph) developed a crack. The Emerys’ neighbors in the Hinman Apartments were aghast at the feat of endurance and expressed their feelings verbally and by loud knock- Reprisals No stops were made for meals. ings on floors and walls are anticipated. The phonograph stood up well under the gruelling test and when GOOD LoRD—I'M WELL, YOU BEEN OUT finally stopped was not even over heated. Emery patted it lovingly and spoke of it in terms of greatest pride. “We took off,” he said, “—and by ‘we’ I mean the phonograph and my- self—at five o'clock — sharp I watched the controls carefully and took care that the little speed indi- cator was at seventy-cight all the time. Most of the while I stayed close to the job, but by the time the record had been played twenty times I knew that we or so, were func * tioning perfectly, so 1 sat back oc- casionally and smoked a cigarette. “PLEASE COME HOME EARLY, DEAR, TO TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN—MOTHER AND 1 ARE GOING TO A PRIzEFIGUT.” DON'T PARK TERE WITH MP ovr oF THIS ISNT THE PIRST TIME 1'VE HIDING “Mrs. Emery relieved me at the crank for a while and I had a bite or two of the ham sandwiches that she had prepared for us with her is. By this time we well along toward the halfway mark own ha were and settled down determinedly to the task The start knocking until about ten o'clock ahead neighbors didn't and, while this caused some concern for a time, we just put on a louder needle and drowned them out. At midnight, our log showed that we were well over the hundred mark and sure of our goal of one hundred and twenty- apparently attaining five. However, on the next playing, developed and we had to Although attain our goal, we the crack make a we did not forced landing. were satisfied, as we had secured a wealth the neighbors, all of of scientific data, particularly o peculiarities of which we saved.” John C. Emery A Fast Worker FERRY: Isn't vour friend Clark pretty slow? Jenny: 1 should say not—it took him four hours to drive his new sweetie fifteen miles home from a dance last night. 1927 father of seven daugh- Misfortune: T° be the ters and not a single pair of ten- TTHE recent v | Vesuvius suggests the that mountain. eruption of conclusion Mussolini's maybe it is yes comicbooks.com