Life — June 14, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Kansas City Tue cENtRAL impression seems to be cur- rent about this town that the citizens of Kansas City will be ready to welcome an- other Republican Convention to our midst just about the same time that the citizens of Philadelphia decide they want to hold another Sesquicentennial. +The Kepublican delegates, as a class, are said to be very wealthy; and when they leave Kansas City they'll have the same amount of wealth they had when here, in the opinion of our chants, theater owners and hotel they car local me & About the only business men who got anything out of the Republican Con- ention were the booticians, and almost | of them we regret to say were out- LtOWN DOVS. ***Well, the Chamber of Commerce of Houston, Texas, has our best wishes. Pro Bono Publico, San Francisco Govvenseur Morris, who has been win- tering hereabouts, is on his way to Ta- hiti where he will summer, lier John McGreevy enjoyed sev- eral rides on the back of the patrol wagon hast Saturday night. ***Vance Breese and Beryl Breese, who is his brother, both have got their flying machines working again. They are well- known seronauts, ***A. ©). Stewart and Harry Speas have bought a good used ferry which they will run across the Golden Gate, which isat the entrance to the bay, which is the best in the world, according to John Cuddy and Phil Fay, our energetic boosters & Many flattering remarks of justly de- served praise are being heard about the beautiful new shade of ink which Leroy Linnard has put in the inkwell at the Fairmont Hotel. ***Any persons finding golf balls on the Lincoln Park or other links will kindly avoid trouble, as they are known and will le prosecuted, by returning same to Charlie Cooper, William H. Burt, Earl Behrens, Harry Borba, Larry Brazill, Lawson Little and Frank Van Sloun. (Legal Notice.) Chet Johnson. Boston Severat out-of-town drummers stopped overnight at the Statler last week. ***Our prominent clubman, Arthur K. Reading, is resting up after a busy spring. ***Miss Eleonora Sears is vacationing in Europe, walking around and hailing a taxicab now and then. u% Our popular bon vivant, Maj. Thos. Clexton, was singing tenor in a quartet at the B. A. A. the other night. ***Gerard Swope of New York and Schenectady was a recent visitor to town, boosting his growing electrical business. ***Mal Nichols, our popular mayor, is thinking up another trip for himself to Duxbury or Bar Harbor or some place like that. Mal gets restless after a couple of consecutive days at City Hall. ***Quite a novelty was introduced at the Somerset Club this week when a mem- ber displayed a pocket cigar lighter. It looks like the days of the sulphur match are doomed when the Somerset Club adopts a new wrinkle like this. «& Several June weddings are contem- plated this month. Watch for names of the contracting parties and further par- ticulars next week. ***Sam Merwin is writing up material for another story book at his home in Concord. *If you don't see your name here, watch for it next week.—Advt. eal O'Hara. Detroit A youne couple whose names will not be mentioned, out of regard for their families, were seen together admiring the Jim Scott statue on Belle Isle one after- noon this week. Prof. Harry Carman, of Columbia University, voices a prediction that De- troit will eventually become the biggest city in the whole U. S. A. Ah, there, New York! Ah, there, Chicago! ***Rumor hath it that Uncle Sam may award our venerable citizen, Eddie Rick- enbacker, a nice gold medal for potting airplanes in the war, away back when he was still just a young fellow. Fine work, Eddie! & A dastardly act, probably by an out- sider, was committed when a bomb was hung on the door knob of Lawyer Galla- gher and left to explode. If the dastard is apprehended he should be persecuted to the full extent of the law. ***Jim Schermerhorn, the demon toast- master, has laid in a brand new line of stories which he is ready to be reminded of on all festive occasions. See Jim for the latest plain and fancy rib ticklers. Elmer C. Adams. Asheville, N. C. There is some talk of changing our traffic regulations, but the sentiment is against it, since under present conditions we always are able to get a new dent in the fender every time we take the car out. &* Mr. Keith is now giving us some real classy vaudeville, and we will be able to give Mr. Coolidge an even pleasanter time than we expected if he comes down. ***The lady in charge of our lone stamp window at the post office is one of our most popular citizens and will gladly sell you a stamp after she gets through visit- ing with her many friends. ***Local fans think if Mr. John McGraw, of New York, will spend a week with Manager Ray Kennedy Mr. McGraw can learn a few inside things about baseball that will enable him to get the Giants in first place. Sam Hill. Dayton Gerorce Wetts, 2nd, has joined Skull and Bones, a popular club at Yale Col- lege, New Haven, Conn. ***For the information of folk who had appointments in the Hotel Gibbons lobby recently and wondered what the many comicbooks.com