Life — August 2, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Los Angeles Tue Crry Haut clock was two minutes fast yesterday, we noticed. Write in when you come across something like that, so we can call it to Mayor Cryer’s attention. *¢*Looks like Will Rogers will have to build a bigger front porch on his Beverly Hills place, the way his campaign's go- ing —Advt. ***Anthony Fokker is building a big Jant in town, he figuring the airplane is bere to stay. Guess he’s right, but it’s kind cf tough on the horse is our view. & Will H. Hays, formerly of Washing- ton, D. C., has been visiting friends in Hollywood. ***Miss Phyllis Haver, former Hutchin- son, Kans., girl, was back home recently, and says Hutchinson is still a good place to be from. Wm. ]. Pringle, Jr. Boston Frank Srearns expects to get back to run- ning his store after March 4, 1929. ***Several out-of-town ‘ople _ visited Bunker Hill Monument this week. Bos- ton would be a bigger and better town if local citizens patronized their public monuments more, ***Louis K. Liggett has had a cigar named after him, putting him in the same class with Henry Clay and Antony and Cleopatra. ***Electric’ refrigerators are all the rage among the younger married set. The 48- cube ones just cool off three qts. of Scotch. & Local oyster cracker salesmen are en- joying a vacation for the month of Au- gust. They had May, June and July off, too, ***Ralph Lindsay scored 30,750 points in the rolling ball game at Nantasket Beach last week and won a handsome Japanese ash tray. The Japs who run the place said some pretty complimentary things about Ralph's skill. ***Several sailors were noted in Scollay Square last Saturday night. *°°The North Station has been com- pletely ripped down. Now if something would only happen to the South Station, this would be a wonderful year. ***The Boston Braves enjoyed a winning streak last week. They split a double- header. Neal O’Hara. Pittsburgh THe wHeELs of justice bogged during the recent honeymoon of Roy T. Klunk, the one hundred and sixty-three pound prosecuting attorney. The talk around town is that when Roy proposed he said, “Now answer me yes or no, sweetheart.” ***Councilman Malone is raising old- fashion he-] because the young people are being put out of the city parks after dusk. Jim was young himself once. *°*Dr. Zolner (Olaf) Wissinger reports wisdom cavities as popular among the matrons this season. Doc is very hand- some. *e*Enemies have been circulating tales that the writer spent his vacation in Canada, The truth is that he was with friends in Detroit (Mich.). William Pfarr. New York NetcHsorHoop News does not use patent insides.—Advt. e**Edgar L. Masters the well known atty-at-law and poet was a pleasant caller on ye scribe the other day. ***Laurence Stallings has been having his father-in-law Dr. Poteat pres. of Wake Forest College visiting him. °°*Mrs. Fink is making a lot of improve- ments on the old Schofield place which she purchased from Chase S. Osborn of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. **°People always complain about their jobs, but the Neighborhood Newsers are justified. If we don’t print somebody's name they say we keep them out on acct. of something or other and if we do they say can’t you let me alone and respect privacy and never print my name again. If it wasn’t that we owe = certain duty to the public we'd quit. ***Clarence (“Bunny”) Knapp former Mayor of Saratoga Springs is busy nowa- days the racing season having just begun up at the Spa. Mr. K. is quite a devotee of the “sport of kings.” ***Never was the town so replete with visitors and a record crowd thronged the Aquarium last Tuesday afternoon, 22 new specimens of the “finny tribe” have been garnered from the briny. ***The theaters in this town are opening up again after the heated term not that it is over but August always sees some new plays to please or annoy Bro, Benchley, hey Rob? Franklin P. Adams. Chicago A coop many of our schoolma’ams have temporarily discontinued their fight for living wages on acct. of vacationing in Europe. ***Ed Cudahy, Jr., took dinner at one of his clubs recently. ***Several of our machine gunners did their vacation shooting in New York last month. **°Art Lueder, the village P. M., dropped in at the post office last wk. to buy some stamps. ***Sotiris Skipis, a Greek poet who week- ended here recently, says we are pretty well fixed for halls where business men and politicians and such can hold con- ventions, but have no meeting place for our poets, We guess Sotiris didn’t see our new Salvation Army soup kitchen. && Some hick, probably from Detroit or St. Louis or some other little town, tried to mail a postcard in our fire-alarm box last. wk., thereby practically ruining a checker game. *°°Ye ed heard that Franklin P. Adams was to be in town last week but as No. 10 stopped practically every night and no- body got off carrying a typewriter we guess he must have rode past his stop. comicbooks.com