Life — May 31, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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14 LIFE dalous one-piece bathing suits they will see at Nantasket Beach this season. ***Several of our local city councilmen got into the circus on free passes this week, ***Louis K. Liggett has been out of town recently on a hunting trip. He bagged three fine corners for Rexall drug stores. ***Several of our Republican politicians who have Kansas City reservations at the Muchlenbach Hotel are having consider- able difficulty with how to pronounce it. Charley Innis, who is an authority on Re- publican politics, says Muchlenbach is accented on the antepenult, which still leaves several of the delegates in the dark. ***Prof. Kittredge, the Shakespeare expert at Harvard, is hard put to find a good place to eat since the Adams House closed. &% If you don’t see your name here, look for it next week.—Advt, Neal O'Hara. Omaha Mayor Leacve scouts: Keep your eye on Bernie James, Cricket second baseman. ***F, H. Davis oversaw construction of an addition to the Davis domicile this week, & Wayland Magee was in to renew his subscription. “Lire is real farm relief,” says Wayland. ***The Wm. Newton Jr's. are learning Swedish to talk to their maid. Lucky she isn’t Chinese, Bill. ***John W. Gamble spoke to the Junior Chamber of Commerce on chemistry. He said we are living in a synthetic age. We guess John is right. ***The Tyler Belts, Mrs. E. M. Morsman Jr., Mrs. Paul Gallagher, Mrs. George B. Prinz and ‘Miss Daphne Peters dug dandelions this week. ***Mrs. Sarah Joslyn has begun a $3,- 000,000 art memorial building. Now the visiting English lecturers will have a suit- able place to insult us in, B. F., Sylvester. Jacksonville Eprror Joun Tempce Graves, II, has a penchant for tennis. It’s leap year, John, so beware of love sets with the fair sex. ***A new headquarters fire station is planned here. The red galluses and checker board have already arrived. &— Jacob M. Dahl of Washington, D. C., government tax expert, was a recent visitor to our midst. Come again, Jake, but not on business say we. ***Game Warden Charlie Jones has re- ceived fifteen head of wild turkeys from the wilds of North Dakota and turned them loose in the woods of Volusia County. Ought to be some good hunting there some day, fellow Nimrods. ***Thomas A. Edison has made known his plans for trying out rubber growing in the Everglades. Hope your rubber grows for years at a stretch, Tom. P. H. Armstrong. Detroit “Bup” Kettanp who used to send in items for a newspaper here is writing some quite interesting pieces in the Sat- urday Evening Post. How does it feel to be up there among the intellectuals, Bud? &* So many cars were parked along the street Friday afternoon that it looked as if another school election was being held. **°The Rev. Reinhold Neibuhr who has filled our pulpit with such success for many years has answered a call to preach and teach in New York, N. Y. Well, by all accounts that town isn’t getting a preacher any too soon. ***Our slender and graceful Governor Green was passing along the strect one day lately when a brick falling from a building under construction just missed his head, a most unfortunate accident. ***Lake vessels are steaming up and down the river in a steady procession now, and make quite a sight for visitors. Tt may not be generally known that more trafic passes this port than passes any other port in the world—and passes it quicker. & Anne Campbell wrote a poem yes- terday. **°We see Henry Ford's surplus in the bank and the old pitcher behind the clock was reduced to $642,000,000 during as duction of the new car. Well, if he’s willing to settle down in the country where living is cheap and keep a cow and a few chickens, he can get along com- fortably on that, and needn't want for anything. ***Chase S. Osborne is the choice of Michigan delegates for Republican Vice- President. Don't forget to send a postal card to the old friends when you go to Washington, Governor. Elmer C. Adams. Denver Harry Hurrman, Kenaz Huffman’s brother, has reopened the America Thea ter as Huffman’s America and installed the Vitaphone. ***Henry Toll, who sat next to Queen Marie, ae sat next to Ethel Barrymore the day she objected to Forrest Ruther ford’s suggestion as to how the play should have ended. ***Mayor Stapleton, who has got his new airport lined up, was given free tickets to the Junior League Follies by the pub licity committee, consisting of Mesdames Philip Alexander, Miriam Berger and Ed- gar McComb. &% Shraiburg’s Floral Shoppe is selling lots of baby turtles in connection with pushing goldfish sales. ***The eyes of the entire state were focused on Denver during Music Week. Clarence Moore, Earl Scholl, Blanche Da Costa and many others appeared in “The Chocolate Soldier,” a famous opera based on “Arms and the Man,” by George Bernard Shaw, an English playwright. T. H. Ferril, New York Yestervay was Memorial Day, Hurrah for the blue! hurrah for the gray! Pansy, ***Last Saturday was a beautiful day hereabouts and our streets were filled with autos and pedestrians. ***We met Milt Livingston the well- known baker on the street yesterday and gave him a good idea to advertise his rolls for the swell trade. Royce Rolls. But he said it was an old gag. ***Pretty near Trafic Day, or the first anniversary of the day Mayor Walker left to go abroad in order to study the transit problem. ***Henry Sydnor Harrison is occupying his Westport, Conn., farm for part of the heated term. ***Arthur Martin the shoe man is cele- beating the 27th anniversary of his leav- ing Cleveland, it being also the 27th an- niversary of the day we asked him to take out some fire insurance. He sold us two prs. shoes and didn’t take the policy. ***Charley Heaslip says business in the Holland Tunnel is big these days. ***). J. Tunney is contemplating taking a business trip to N. 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