Life — November 2, 1928 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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NEIGHBORHOOD SAN FRANCISCO Joun G. Lawtor, who quit being a reporter to run for superior court judge but got scooped at the mary election 1s now writing a long poem which is being run in 18 easy installments in the police magazine. Despondency is believed to have prompted Mr. Lawlor. e% Laurent B. Virieux, the consul of Tahiti here and also cash- ier for the French Line, has recov- ered from a slight bullet wound which was given him without cost by a bandit he had never met be- fore who ordered him to give m money which he refused to do. *The Pacific Ocean liner Manchuria” has been bought by capt. Robert Dollar, who was the Je model for Pete Kyne’s ‘Cappy Ricks,"” and his (Cap Dol- ons, Stan and Rob, and y will rename it the President Hoover’ or **President Emith,”” depending on which the ptists put in the White House, ¢ maybe the ‘*President Rogers.’ Kezar Stadium out in Golden Gate Park has been en- larged for the football season and now will hold 60,000 persons. in i 2 addition to the fog. ig frequently of late, ‘ing a bumper crop of debu- antes, the same including Miss Evelyn Taylor, Miss Katrine Breu- . Miss Daisy Overton, Miss June Shaw, Miss Barbara Carpenter, Miss Beth Sherwood, and Miss and Miss Peggy Dibble. "**Dudley Steele has resigned as a press agent to be an oil sales- man. ‘From banana oil to another kind,”’ says Stuart B. Dunbar, who deals in the former. Chet Johnson. SPOKANE Curve Jonson, A. W. Lind- luy and some others have pulled pf a bank merger of no mean pro- portions, and if they hand out the Fight kind of art calenders the first Ht the year your corr. may consider ansferring his overdraft to the Pew institution, Nick Mamer and Clarence vwlsen would have made a non- op fight from New York to Los Aageles but for the fact, or facts, that Clarence had to stay in New York and Nick came down in Wyoming. Oh, well, as we told the boys, you can go to Los Angeles any time. ***Will Maylon, the popular and hard-working Thespian, 1s put- ting on boxing bouts, and our first- nighters are saying that some of Will's boxers are pretty good emo- tional actors themselves, Senator Wm. Borah (Rep. Idaho) was a pleasant visitor lately. Not having been a candidate for office this fall, the Sen. was spry, but a little hoarse, «> There was such a big a ple crop this year that you har ever see a doctor any more. Stoddard King. INDIANA Tu’ straw vote at Bunker Hill, Indianny, gives Hoover a shade, but Hon. J. Ham Lewis, with his reindeer moss whiskers, don't speak ther’ till next week. ***Hon. Don Hoover, late pustmaster o' St, Thomas, th’ Vir- gin Islands, is holdin’ down a reportorial job on th’ Indynoplus News, ***°Walter Harrison, Man- Editor 0’ th’ Daily Okla- homan, o' Oklahoma City, Okla- homa, en route t' Urbana, Illinoy, stopped off t pay me a call last week, He's a handsome, virile lookin’ young chap, an’ I'll bet he hain't alarmed about Catholicism. ue I'm th’ president o° th’ Ludlow fer Congress Club, of In- dynoplus, an’ if ever'buddy votes th’ way they promise Louis'll have U give up newspaper work, a pro- fession he's adorned at home an’ in Washington, fer almost thirty years, (Washington, D. C., papers please give prominent position.) ***Charles La Follette, val- ued attache o° th’ Bobbs-Merrill Company, has returned from an ex- tended tour 0° Europe with th’ same ole story, He didn’ see a drunk man all th’ time he wuz gone. ***1 attended a Hoover mect- in’ a few nights ago, an’ took a seat behind two likely lookin’ housewives, thinkin’ perhaps 1 could catch th’ drift o” their con- a LU i = | NSS STINTS STS ESTES TISSUES SDSS NNO ORES versation an’ learn how they stood on th’ issues o° th’ campaign. But th’ glee club an’ planted hecklers made so much confusion that all 1 could ketch wuz, ‘th’ whole wick is in knowin’ when t’ bottle it."* u% Gabe Craw has with- drawn his letter from th’ Meth- odist Church an’ joined th’ Demo- cratic party, *°°Th’ trafic cop that gave Pustmaster General Harry S. New a severe bawlin’ out fer breakin’ ranks an’ crossin’ th’ street before th’ chimes struck up, durin’ his recent visit, is still holdin’ his job, ***Politics has reached th’ boilin’ point here an’ many fierce, determined lookin’ out-state Re- ublican wheelhorses may be seen huddled here an’ ther’ about th’ Columbia Club discussin’ th" situ- ation in tones scarcely audible, &— Congressman Ralph Up- dike, Prince Albert coat, et al, is back’ in town passin’ out pale, green veined, nickel cigars fer re- election. Kin Hubbard (Abe Martin). CHICAGO Some practical joker last week left a copy of the Christian Science Monitor on the magazine - table in Dr. Herb Carroll's waiting room, as the result of which sev: eral patients are said to have got well ‘without waiting to sec the Doe, **°Certain athletic parties having, we are told, threatened us for not mentioning their names in Nuicusorinoop News, we wonder what has become of the old-time house and sign artist whose side- line shingle used to read, ‘Black eyes painted here." & On her way from S. F. to N. Y., Gertrude Atherton, the distinguished discoverer of ancient Greece and eternal youth, paid a flying visit to our sanctum Tuesday, looking not many months older than her youngest granddaughter. Call again, Gertrude, when you can stay longer. *°°The Tavern Club's library grows bigger every week, thanks to generous members donating from their own shelves many of those books that every well-educated per- son is sup to have read, but NEWS have they? Anyway, what the Tav- ern library needs now is a first class paper knife. ***We can hardly wait for Xmas to come, because ice begins to berg on the Chicago River about that ume. Then Mich. Ave. is not split up and stood on end every few minutes, stopping $1,000,000 worth of traffic to permit the pas- sage of 3oc-worth of steamboat. & Marker Rerort—Smith & Wesson, steady; Colts, firms; pine- apples, ‘heavy. Ashton Stevens. DETROIT Tuat fire in the frat house at the agricultural college, it was learned this morning, was started by the friction of a freshman get- ting out ahead of the hazers. **°Old Pete Stoll, the noted Nimrod, heard that a lot of ducks in a swamp up state had been killed by hail, so now he has gone up there with his shotgun and is lying out in the swamp waiting for it to hail again. ***The bunch of young row- dies that has been congregating on the corner by the drug store and making remarks about certain young ladies had better put a but- ton on their lips, or they may find this is no laughing matter. um Essen M. Gale, formerly of here and China, is now teach- ing oriental languages in the Uni- versity at Berkeley, Cal. The writer was conversing with Essen only a short time ago but had no idea of he becoming prominent so soon, *Detroit and Wayne Coun- ty have finally bought an airport site, which many are going out to see as it is only a few hours from here by train or auto, *Louis Porter, the adver- tising man, enjoyed a toasted sand- wich at the expense of the writer in a downtowne shoppe Wednesday noon. Advertising pays, Lou is al- ways saying. But it didn’t that time, we paying instead. ‘An outstanding social event of the season occurred at Reno, Nev., when Mr. and Mrs. James (Delphine Dodge) Cromwell were divorced from the holy bonds of wedlock. Ye scribe joins with a VOTE FOR ROGERS VOTE FOR SMITH VOTE FOR HOOVER sur — VOTE! comicbooks.com