Life — November 10, 1927 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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Life 7 WUST EEIWEEN US CIRLE | Extra Special a fire bell clanged and banged into the chill night air. Retired farmers, barbers, storekeep: ers, the President of the Farmer-State Guaranty Bank, the postmaster, children, dogs and a traveling men, women, rsman came on Some were dressed but most of them wore overcoats their the run. only over nigh clothes. “Where's the shouted in one gasp “Fire?” scoffed Zeke Blot- ter, oil station superintendent and Chief of Police. “I ain't said there's a fire.” He looked around to make sure fire?” they every one present was listening closely. : “Just got word from the telegraph op'rator,” he clared proudly. “The ne iw Ford is out!” “ James A. Sanaker. RAILWAY STOCKS UP “YES—THE ROADS ARE MOVING THE CROPS, THE WINTER'S COAL, AND THE NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL TRAM.” Purveyors to Her Majesty R. KINGSLEY ROB- ERTS, the well-known medical mad-wag, was hurrying through the shopping listrict when he happened to notice which announced, “ODD HATS— Ah,” exclaimed the roguish physician. where Queen Mary gets them!" 4 54,98 6.27 9Y 2% 10 vays 515.000 * in a window, « sign “So that's NEW SIGNALS FOR PROFESSIONAL TEAMS, “M*, dear, I'm SIMply THRILLED to DEATH— * I mean I've ACtually been DREAMing about this game for WEEKS, do you know what I mean? HONestly, my dear, I simply CAN'T take my EYES off it because it SIMply FAScinates me, no less! This dress? Oh, DO you like it? I simply can't STAND it—I mean it makes me look POSitively tiTANic but I actually hadn't a THING to WEAR, my dear—can you BEAR it? Will you PLEASE look at that odd woman in GREEN—no—over there to the RIGHT more with that awfully tight boy who keeps LEAPing up and CHEERing every two minutes—do you see the one I mean? HONestly, my dear, it like NOTHing HUman. ANYways, I think you see awfully strange people at these big games, don't you REALIy think you DO, sort of? I mean just LOOK aROUND you, sort of. I think you see such LOADS of awfully GRIM people who don't look as if they had the SLIGHTest conN ECtion with anybody who ever went to COLlege do you know what I mean? Gosh, | WISH I could s somebody | RECo'nized. I mean I get an awful BOO out of it when I RECo'nize somebody at one of these I can't HELP it but I simply ALways LEAP up and WAVE frantically at them. Last year I was with an awfully SHY sort of youth who got all hot and BOTHered about it but 1 HONestly don’t think it makes a DIFF of BITterance WHAT you do at a FOOTball game, do you really think it DOF HON estly, my dear, that odd woman in GR simply SLAYS me, no less, because I me she’s HONestly TALKing a BLUE STREAK ever since the game ARTed— I mean I ACtually don’t see WHY people like that don't stay HOME. because I think it’s sort o rty TRICK to get a ticket for 1 game when somebody else WANTS it if you're just going’ to TALK all THROUGH it, sort of. I mean I ACtually DO! Lloyd Mayer. looks games. been One Hundred Percenters “"\V 7ELL, political situation shaping up in this villag “Not much interest hereabouts,” “If it wasn't fer ized citizens it wouldn't be wath-while open how is the said the native. r newly natural ing the voting booths.” comicbooks.com