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

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SSIS SIS SSSI SSS IS IST STI INT NEIGHBORHOOD SPOKANE Marx Hawxrns, who managed a bathing atest during Interstate Fair week, is jing to be seen in public again. & Rumors in the theatrical district are to the effect that a road show has been booked to y here some time during the winter, with original St. Louis cast. **Superior Judge Joe Lindsley has no ition for re-election this fall. For some years the judge has adhered to the fine old American practice of handing out seegars, and Kis friends hope he will not quit just because he has a walkaway. *Hot tamale husks are unusually thick, indicating a fine and prolonged Indian summer, *Some fiend in human form stole the current number of the Journal of Ethnological Reiearch {rom the reading room of the Public Library, and it will go hard with him if caught. Stoddard King. BOSTON Memsers of the Ancient and Honorable Anillery Company are straggling back from England this month. Every year the artillery boys go abroad to study the latest methods for getting loaded. ***Two local boys, Kenneth L. Roberts and Ben Ames Williams, have been on a hunting trip with Charles G. Dawes. Mr. Dawes is Vice- President of the United States. ***The only difference Bostonians see in talking movies is that the talkies beat them to it reading the titles out loud. *The B. & M. Railroad has come right out with official government statistics that Boston has better year-round weather than Miami. Now what Boston needs is a Chamber of Climate. ***Speaking of official statistics, data in- dicate that a Boston team has never been beaten in a world’s series, And it looks like no outfit is going to lick a Boston team in this year's world’s series, either, “Our popular Congressman, George Holden Tinkham, gave a lecture on the drama fecently. He said Prohibition was a farce. & Clarrie Day, the big ticker and tape man, is in the market to buy a modest 22-room cottage with eight or nine baths. The only thing teal estate men can dig up for him is one of the Harvard dormitories and they won't sell. *The cotton textile business is on the blink. Some of the manufacturers blame the de- Pression onto the Ku Klux Klan cutting out their uniforms and masks, while others claim too many citizens go to bed in hot weather wearing only half a pajamas. *°°Chas. E. McCarthy was a week-end guest of ye scribe. Mac is head publicity man for Paramount pictures and has an elegant office at the crossroads of the world. We can remember when he covered Montello for the Brockton, Mass., Times and turned in many a scoop on a Lithuanian lawn party, ete. *°*Our fellow townsman, Jack Sharkey, expects to be the next heavyweight champion of the world. Jack doesn’t know whether to start his taining with road work or ‘‘The Merry Wives of Windsor.”* Neal O'Hara. PITTSBURGH Our Pirates being where they are in the national pastime, traveling salesmen are assured of the usual rates during the World Series. If you have lost a dog, advertise in Nuictisornooo News; if you have found one, use your own judgment. @& Brady McSwigan, the young married man, caught the brass ring on the merry-go- round at Kennywood Park the other day. Now that would look all right but Brady runs the park. ***Mary Josephine Lauder, who calls James Joseph Tunney by his front name, comes of a Pitts h family but none of the local boxers were able to make the grade. William Pfarr. LOS ANGELES A new reason for the delays of the law came out in the course of an argument in Judge Hahn's court the other day. It was the defend- ant’s new set of false teeth, which the case was tponed a month on account of, so he could earn to talk with them, **°°The National Air Races are being flown here this week, merchants reporting a brisk sale of neck linaments. ***Adolphe Menjou is suing a man, said to be a bow tie manufacturer, because he as- sertedly used Ad's name in connection with alleged advertising of what are charged with being inferior neckties, it is reported. *°°Charles Farrell is building a big new house out San Fernando way. Who's the lucky Miss, Chas,? **°We have run afoul of several discus- sions around town about the election, showing our citizens are taking a healthy interest in same. ***Plan now to attend the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932.—Adet. Wm. ]. Pringle, Jr. NEWS MILWAUKEE Do your Christmas shopping carly, say we. ***Haskell Noyes, the big noise of the Izaak Walton bunch, has been appointed Wiscon- sin Conservation Commissioner by Gov. Zim- merman. It's up to you, Haskie, to see that our trout streams and forests are filled with some- thing besides tourists. «x Our own Gilda Gray, who used to be Maryanna Michalski, has just shaken, among other things, her second husband, a Mr. Boag. ***Many folks on the nearby rural routes are busy threshing crops or offspring. ***Fred Miller, captain of the 1928 foot- ball team at Notre Dame, left us last week to return to school. Fred reports that only 200 can- didates answered Professor Rockne’s call. ***Nancy Falk, of here, went out to Madison recently, where she danced a polka with John Coolidge. Jan Hartnett. DETROIT B. E. Taytor, the enterprising young real- tor, sold a lot in his golf club subdivision yester- day. The report that the buyer was an armless man has since been denied. ***Senator Copeland, from N. Y., was recently looking into old home faces at a Demo- cratic rally in Ann Arbor, He noted many im- portant changes in the town, among them that another man than himself is mayor now. And not so good-looking, either, ch, Royal? One event at the state fair didn’t come off right, George Chapman, the manager, said today, They had a hog-alling contest and a husband-calling contest at the same time. And the hogs never got fed, because as soon as the women. started calling their husbands, the hus- bands quit their hog-calling and came right to dinner. ***William A. Comstock, Dem. candidate for Governor, says he will ‘‘spike the scurrilous statements about Al Smith."* Word comes to this office that Will Rogers is being traduced, too. It is a vicious canard that he will not resign if elected. **°Friday morning was quiet in town but in the afternoon the streets were lined with cars and the stores were scenes of hustle and bustle. *Mayor Tenerowicz, of our enclosed city of Hamuamck, has made Joseph Rupinski chief of police, made Chief Wurmuskiren di- rector of public safety, and asked Director Wis- comicbooks.com