Life — May 10, 1928 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Neighborhood News BOSTON Frank Stearns has been visiting friends at the White House, Washington, D. C. Mrs. F. C. Church, Jr. (née Vander- bilt, christened Muriel) is dusting off her shack at Newport for early occupancy. Our ball clubs are busy meeting out- oftown opponents these days. Their new uniforms are a credit to the city. ***Alexander P, Moore, publisher of the Boston Advertiser, has a responsible posi- tion in Peru, So, America. & Our popular boniface, Henry Ford, prop. of Wayside Inn, has returned from foreign parts where he met up with King George V and other well-known crowned heads. ***The senior class at Harvard are hav- ing their photographs taken this week. ***New books at the Public Library are “Trader Horn,” “Bad Girl’ and the World Almanac for 1928. ***Andrew J. (Bossy) Gillis, the Mayor of Newburyport, was a visitor in town last week. He had nothing to say, which created a sensation. & If you don’t find your name here, look for it next week.—Adv’t, Neal R. O'Hara. CHICAGO Tue Chicago Geographical Socicty has got a gold medal on their hands they want to give to Lindbergh, but Lindy don't seem to be in any hurry to come around and collect it. ***Al Smith was indorsed for President by the Democrats of Cook County at uproarious session. It must of leaked out here that Al was wet or something. & The fish expert at the Lincoln Park aquarium says there is 30,000,000 fish born every year in Chicago. Keep up the geod work, fish, say wel “Our popular evangelist, Paul Rader, is offering $1,000 to anyone who can ‘ove that a whale could not of swallowed jonah. We would like to enter this con- test if somebody would send us a whale and we could get Mr. Rader to act as Jonah. «& Sig. Giannini was here the other day looking to buy a bank. It seems he wants to own one in every big town in the U. S. We are sorry we did not learn of this sooner, as only a few days ago we threw ours in the ash can on account of it being so hard to get open. Asia Kagowan. CINCINNATI Hearp Lou Ransohoff, our popular physician and surgeon, sneeze while walking along Race Street the other day. Better take something for that cold, Doc. ***A visitor in town the other day was Prince Georges Matchabelli of Georgia, South Russia, now in the perfume busi- ness, he dropping in with Manny Strauss, one of our town boys who has made good in Gotham, he having been given a testimonial dinner some time ago where all the guests put together were worth the sum of $4,000,000,000 and no cents. Manny visited his mother here and the Prince stood on the roof of the Sin- ton Hotel and admired the traffic con- gestion down below. He said that Ameri- ca is blazing the path of civilization for the world. Thanks, Georges. What do you call that perfume you are selling? « Friends of Gene Segal, Post scribe, and Reland Miller, who teaches dietetics over at the U., are all hoping their troubles will be little ones, they having enjoyed nuptials the other day. Gene and Reland are telling all and sundry they will be formally at home to all and sundry on June 15, 1999. ***Everybody is quite excited over this being Dedication Month over at the new Enquirer Building which Ed. McLean, ublisher, has had built. Ed wants every- ly to drop in and help dedicate. All you have to do to dedicate is ride in one of the new elevators which stop at the floor you press the button on, no matter how the operator feels about it, so come one, come all, Ed says. Congrats, Ed. Your journal seems to be getting quite bigger and better all the time. ***Henry Straus’ Cigar Store has put a new coat of paint on the big red ball which hangs at Sixth and Walnut and tells whether there is a game todzy or not. A lot of citizens say the Reds will win the pennant and other ones just say nothing, they keeping very quiet. Tupper Greenwald. DETROIT Ovr cloquent young minister, Lynn Harold Hough, will cross the big pond this summer to take in the sights of Eu- rope and brush the Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, etc., off his English accent. Well, Lynn, if you see anyone we don’t know, give ‘em our regards and tell ‘em what a nice little old town Detroit is. ***A stuffed horned toad was sealed up in the corner stone of a new University building at Ann Arbor the other day. “The nature of this little animal is such,” said an eminent U. of M. scientist who is overseeing the experiment, “that we be- lieve it will come out of the stone 50 or 75 years hence, still stuffed.” ***Our smiling governor, Fred Green, is reported to have spent a quiet hour in the bosom of his family one evening last month, he having no banquets, exhibi- tions, games and etc., to attend at that time. & Quite a number of cars of different makes were seen on our main streets during the busy part of the day Saturday. ***Maple sap and political oratory are be- ginning to flow these spring days. There will be a big run of both but both will need a powerful lot of boiling down be- fore they'll be good for anything. ***Col. Lindbergh, one of the home town boys, may make a flying tour of the world. Well, ta, ta, Lindy, and if you see anyone we don’t know, give ‘em our regards, and tell *em what a nice little old town Detroit is. Elmer C. Adams. HOLLYWOOD Dyas’s new emporium on the corner of Vine Street and Hollywood Boulevard comicbooks.com