Life — October 12, 1928 — page 25: what you’re looking at

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laxen- ges of 1 fire: NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS DETROIT Pror. Wat. H. Hoses was taking care of wome aviator rescuing up in the Greenland neighbothood recently. & Postmaster Kellogg has told employees to be on the watch for mail containing scur- nilows attacks on candidates Smith and Hoover. Since when have they had a right to read these things first, we'd like to know, *Padlocks were ordered placed on both cf out saloons the other day by Judge Moinet. ***Haste the day when our new bridge to Ontario will open. The ferry crowds are so large now that to get across before noon you have to be out of bed and down at the dock before the river starts running. "A Mr. Bennie Oosterbaan is helping coach the U. of M. football boys this fall, Rumor has it, at Columbus, O., Urbana, Ill., Minneapo- etc,, that Mr. Oosterbaan was onee a yer himself, w& The Rev. Dr. Edward DeWitt Jones, tack from vacation, says he was lost twenty-four as in the mountains of North Carolina, but stl prefers Detroit. ***Alex. Dow of the Edison Co. was in- salling lights in the new house on the West Side Saturday afternoon, it being rented already. Whom the new bride is, rumor saith not. Elmer C. Adams. HOUSTON Mr. Lyxctr Davinson, our well-known I'mb'r king, who is taking a year off from run- ning for Governor, is in Europe secing the sights, He will travel around some and have a good wl then meet Mrs, Davidson and their sughter in Paris. “Mr. R. H. Baker, gifted chairman of cur state prison board, and Mrs. Baker have re- tumed from a trip to Hawaii, where a good time was had by all, They went to sce a new grand- anddaughter or something, but R. H. s fishing tackle. He believes in combin- 8 with business. He says Hawaiian kenery ain't what it used to be since the girls over hiere have begun wearing them so short. “Mr. Safford of the Missouri Pacific offered yc scribe the use of his private car to go somewhere, but one has to buy a ticket even to fo somewhere in a private car. There always sems to be a string tied to what is offered ye sribe. Mr. Safford didn’t say where he would like to have ye scribe go. © Uncle Willie (W. H.) Thornhill, fish aad oyster king of Matagorda, sent ye scribe a shipment of oysters the other day. Ye scribe had to cat three quant of them or give some of them away, so he hasn't been feeling so well the past couple of days. Come again, Uncle Willie, say we. ***Elizabeth Baker, who has been sum- mering at Belton, has a new pair of shoes she was quite proud of, but just as she was going to show them to Forrest Lee Andrews he showed her his new car. She shouldn't feel so taken down, Shoes aren't like motor-cars. At least her'n ain't. ***J. C. (Monty) Montgomery, of Mc- Allen, offercd to pay all ye scribe's expenses if ye scribe would come down and go with him over to the wet side of the Rio Grande, Once in a while someone has the right idea of a good way to get their name in this column of news, Judd Mortimer Lewis. CHICAGO Pernaps one reason why nobody has bribed ye ed to write a testimonial for those cigarettes that don't tickle the throat is that ye ed smokes them, ® Crus Nores—Everything in the old Chicago Club is being rebuilt except a few beards and the old membership. ....The Tavern has subscribed to Nuiciisontiooy News, the Fort- nightly Review and the Police Gazette. The Chiff Dwellers, with its fine library, has lost only cight books in twenty years, which says much for the honesty and indifference of its mem- bers.....Te tongue-tied scribe was compelled to decline the guest-of-honor chair at the Evanston Drama Club's luncheon, the hospitable hostesses requiring a speech. ***Alan Clayton, Evanston’s popular soldier and civilian, bought a new Packard the other day and is now using the nifty slogan, “I'm glad I waited.”* ***The way Roland Young, the well- known caricaturist, cane-collector and actor, is being entertained in spare time from his worl: at the Cort Theater, you wouldn't think ‘The Queen's Husband"’ was going to run forever. ***What Chicago's loop district needs is not only a good twenty-five-cent cigar but an all-night drug store. You can’t get it after 1A. at. unless the doc brings it with him. € Bookshop windows are ablaze with fiery jackets of ‘The Dark Island,’ the novel written by those intrepid South Sea adventurers, Chas. Collins and Gene Markey, with, some say, the idea of introducing a suit of Neufeldt-Kuhnke diving armor into every home.—ddvt. ***We saw Julian Eltinge in the plat- form show at the picture house, looking nice and matonly, Ashton Stevens, OMAHA Fay Russect, Cornhusker quarterback, has lost a $75 pair of spurs. Missouri, or the Army, is suspected. & The Old Telegraphers convention here missed Thomas A, Edison, he being detained by an invention of some kind. William F. Kenny of Gotham was here recently, ready to give his shirt for a cer- tain fellow-townsman but didn’t need to, Red Harvel has been sold to Cleve- land (after being mentioned in these columns) and already the box-scores call him *Marvel.”” ***Monte Munn of Lincoln and New York is back from an enjoyable sojoura in South America. Monte is sure full of S.A, as they call it. Spike Kennedy is heading into win- ter with the same overcoat he has not worn for years. Commander Byrd could have saved moncy by taking Spike. ***Mayor Dahlman is keeping out of the New York-Chicago squabble, but his spokasman gives out that he would rather go for a ride with Tex Guinan than Scarface Al, B. F, Sylvester. BOSTON Cotumsus Day is being celebrated here- abouts in honor of the famous Genoese. The local Ku Klux chapter refuses to join the cele- bration on the grounds that America would have been discovered sooner or later, anyway. Dr. Eddie O'Brien, our eminent sur- geon and football official, ‘will referee a lot of the big this season, so his patients bad better arrange not to come down with appendicitis on a Saturday afternoon, &* A local Chinaman who got arrested for playing fan-tan told the pole he was a second-story worker. Come to find out, he meant he worked in a chop suey restaurant. ***Despite a great big increase in attend- ance, the school committee fixed it so there was a seat for every child. Now the citizens are root- ing for the school committee to take charge of our subway and clevated system. *°*H. T. Parker, the Transcript play ex- pert, criticized a show the other day and only used 213 different adjectives. Guess H. T. P. wasn't feeling just right or else the office cat was sleeping on the thesaurus, ***Just as soon as the widow of our former Republican Governor, Curtis Guild, came out for Al Smith, his brother, Courtenay Guild, came out for Hoover and sent the G. O. P. a $1000 check. As near as we can make it out, comicbooks.com