Life — May 17, 1928 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Neighborhood News BOSTON Wuuam M. Butter, who has a re- sponsible position with the Republican National Committee, will leave for a business trip to Kansas City, Mos shortly. @ The Watch and Ward Society is get- ting ready for its annual drive on snappy summer fiction. ‘Our former mayor, John F, Fitz- gerald, sang “Sweet Adeline” the other night. **The swan boats in the Public Gardens ae doing a good business. ***Our popular boniface, Walter Lindeau of the Ritz-Carlton, has installed foun- tain pens at the registration desk. They are a great improvement over the old- fashioned quill-in-the-potato. **The Gillette Safety Razor Company has put on several extra workmen punch- ing Roles in blades. ***Strawberry shortcakes are in season at Thompson’s Spa. ***Our energetic State Treasurer, Wm. §. Youngman, is speechifying in the western part of the State this week. ***Business is rather quict in our prin- cipal wholesale lines. Nobody is buying much wool, everybody is having his old shoes tapped and folks are only eating fish on Friday. **Our local sportsman, Huntington R. (“Tack”) Hardwick, has announced his intention of going to the Tunney-Heeney fight. @ If you don’t find your name here, look for it next week.—Adv’s. Neal O’Hara. CHICAGO “A lot of coughing and sneezing is noticeable among our citizens this month, which the doctors claim is an epidemic of “walking flu.” We remember when these things was called colds, but any- how they is still treated as such in the old-fashioned manner and the strain on our bootleggers is something awful. @% There has only been 288 deaths here from motor accidents so far this year but we hope to do better from now on what with sunny Sundays & etc. *°*Harold McCormick, local boy, who was accused of writing a book while he was in Switzerland, has confessed. ***A gang of counterfeiters has been pinched here for making fake city auto icense plates. We hope they will be soaked good and plenty as no punish- ment could be too severe for a bunch of dirty crooks which would steal from ‘the city without being elected to any office. &* Mayor Thompson is again registered at the Hotel Sherman, after spending five days in Washington, D. C. He did not call at the White House during his visit and it is thought likely he is beginnin, to consider Mr. Coolidge as a draft evader. Asia Kagowan. CINCINNATI “Livang,” THE annual big musical en- tertainment which was given at the Grand Opera House by the scholars over at the U. and was written by Eddie Byron and directed by Jack Froome, was bigger and better than ever, it comparing quite favorably with the last five or six entertainments, which were all great. ***The new Central Parkway traffic lights look quite pretty, they being a tasty combination of red, yellow, and green respectively. ***Jack Kidd, our popular bookseller, has returned from Europe and George Ellis- ton, our popular society editor of the Times-Star, says that he was féted in all the Old World centers. Seems Jack was very much interested in the new dock extension at Bristol, which will be dedi- cated by the Prince of Wales, he dedi- cating a new part of it which was not dedicated by King Edward VII who dedicated the Royal Edward Dock part, it seems. Miss Elliston also says that when he was in London Jack saw the popular Noel Coward's play, ‘’The Second Man,” which will be news to everybody, because S. N. Behrman, who it seems is acting in the play, came to Cincy a year or so ago with a play entitled “Love Is Like That,” written by Basil Rathbone and Leslie Howard Nicholson, author of “The Barker.” Tupper Greenwald. DETROIT One of our popular young storekeepers, and whose name we need not mention, has been stepping out among the fash- ionable set in New York and attending publicly to social affairs of a private nature. mY Edgar A. Guest, of here, wrote a poem yesterday. ***Mayor John C. Lodge (who is uncle of Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, mother of Charles A. Lindbergh, and who is therefore a great uncle of Lindbergh him- self) was in his office today as usual. ***Up to this writing the boys on the Tiger team have not enjoyed such a winning streak as we might like, owing to the loss of games. ***Two men who rescued a collie dog from a cake of ice in the river last Janu- ary at the risk of their own lives have been awarded medals by the Detroit Kennel Club. “With all his faults,” said a speaker feelingly on this occasion, “the man is Dog’s best friend.” *°*Clarence Cook Little, scholar, uni- versity president, athlete and big mouse hunter who brought back many trophies from his expedition in Scotland last summer, was circulating and _speechify- ing among us last week. Tell us that one again about the time you were charged by a big bull mouse, Prexy. Elmer C. Adams. JACKSONVILLE A synpicate headed by New York and New Orleans financiers has taken over Coral Gables. George E. Merrick re- linquishes control but remains president of the project. The hot dog concession is understood to continue under the same management. ***Rev. W. A. Myers, pastor of the First Methodist church of Fort Myers, has a comicbooks.com