Life — July 5, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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20 LIFE of the Kiwanis Club, “We Serve,” in their windows during the national con- vention of that order here. ***). Spangler, our genial banker, was caught out in a hard shower while wear- ing his new straw hat. Jim said he thought for a minute that the canal was trying to get back to Panama, he being a wit like that. Hal Burdick. Boston A tor of straw hats have been rained on hereabouts this season. ***Tom Mix, the movie actor, was a re- cent visitor in town. He was accom- panied by a horse whose name we could not learn. a There is a public rumor about town that some of our State legislators were seen slightly intoxicated at the State House in April, 1927. We don’t know why the rumor-mongers picked out April, 1927, in particular. ***Jack Slattery, the popular ex-mgr. of the Braves, has taken an ocean trip to Europe to get the air. Jack did not have to go abroad to get it, however. *°°The life guards at Revere Beach have either painted their arms and chests with iodine or they got sunburned mighty quick. ***Mal Nichols, the mayor of Boston, was in town the other day. **°°The Touraine Hotel has been scrubbed on the outside by sand blasters and many of our inhabitants were sur- prised to learn the bricks were colored red. wr Bossy (Andrew J.) Gillis, the popular mayor of our suburb, Newbiryport re- cently chopped down and split four elm trees on his property and admirers are already comparing him with Abraham Lincoln. Neal O'Hara. Cincinnati Turee Hunprep anv Stxty-THREE Days till the Fourth of Jul. *°*Our Reds are certainly a big surprise, being way up there. We're with you, boys, hook, line, and sinker. #**Rain and fog has been dampening the spirits of many. If the low visibility on our streets keeps up, quite a number of American Mercury subscriptions will be discontinued hereabouts. ***Russ Wilson, our wise and witty dean of dramatic critics, is going into politics. Russ pulls some of the best puns in.town, so the other candidates better read up, is our view. wx Watermelons are in, and it’s a shame that the old radio earphones have passed out, say we. **°William Cooper Procter, our popular soap dealer, is contemplating doing some swimming soon. Bill will make it a point to float, too. Tupper Greenwald. Omaha TwentietH Street is pretty well torn up these days. Almost everyone you mect says our city is getting to look more and more like N. Y. ue Big League Scouts: Keep your eye on Red Harvel, Cricket fly-hawk. ***Our best to Police Chief Pszanowski. The name is a terror to evil-doers. ***The ferry from Detroit, Mich., to Windsor, Canada, is only 5c, we have it from Glen Eastburn who has returned from a business mission in those parts. ***Sandy Richardson, the big Standard Oil man, was out with the lawnmower the other evening making the home place look fine. ***Oliver Eldridge met Peggy Joyce in Paris and didn’t realize who she was until he was in the middle of the At- lantic on the way home. *°°The war between the U. S. Govern- ment and Henry Kieser over which is the right side of the road for Henry's R. F. D. box has entered the fourth year with neither side giving in any. B. F, Sylvester. Detroit O. Gasritowrtscu who is perhaps among Detroit's best-known musicians is whiling the hours away very pleasantly in Europe this summer. **°Ye scribe is driving a real sporty new car now, and any pretty pedestrianess who will get in touch with this office may learn something to her advantage. **°This is exactly what happened, as told by an cye-witness: Homer Guck, contact man be the Union Trust Co., met a man yesterday whom he didn’t know, but the man didn’t know Homer didn’t. ux We borrowed a pass especially to see Babe Ruth, said to a baseball player from New York, knock a homer at Navin Field. He didn’t make a hit, and walked twice, which seemed like a mighty raw deal after we had gone to all the trouble of saving that expense. ***We see Fielding H. (Hurry-Up) Yost was given a regular highbrow scholar’s degree by a college in West Va., the same being his native state. Every year Yost’s football boys get their college “M's,” giv- ing the coach quite a rep as a man of letters, ***A real nice way of entertaining a friend is to take him for a ride on the new escalators at Hudson's. “Hang the expense!” said open-handed Uncle Henry, who took ye scribe. “We only live once!” Elmer C. Adams. Philadelphia Japanese beetles are expected in our midst any day now for their annual visit, they not knowing they wore their welcome out the first time. ***Gceorge Horace Lorimer, editor of one of NetcHsornoop News’ esteemed Phila- delphia contemporaries, sailed this week for Europe, probably to collect those war debts in person and in full. ***Janet Gaynor, formerly of these parts, but latterly resident in Hollywood, which she says is almost a week's train ride from here, visited her two aunts in this city recently. She hadn't been home in four years, except in reel form. She reports she is doing nicely in the West. Come again, Janet. a Will tourists please refrain from eat- ing their lunches on the signers’ table in Independence Hall.—Advt. ***Our customs agents regret that in de- tecting thirty-six bottles of liquor in a barrel of pitch consigned here one day re- cently, they were forced to break one of the bottles. Better luck next time, boys. ***Dog days will soon be among us and we feel sorry for the horses. John Forbes. Newport Cuartie Kino is able to be up and around again after his bachelor dinner. ¢°*Harry Havemeyer and Art James are among our busy commuters, going and coming between here and New York on Art’s yacht boat which has a number of brass bedsteads and baths as well as a radio and large ice box. ***Many of the summer folks are now opening their gardens to the public, most of which are a sight. ***Ken Safe and charming wife are among the week-end influx quite regu- larly and can be discovered moving in the exclusive golfing and swimming circles where their popularity is traditional.