Life — November 9, 1928 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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West Point in November. Blue sure hopes he can get away. & Upton Sinclair of Los An- geles went through the other day in an extra-fare train. His purpose was to get home in time to vote the straight Socialist ticket, that being the way he leans politically, B. F. Sylvester. QUEBEC Romeo Jostn, promising young singer of here, has gone to Pas two years in Paris trying to nd some person who can sing air to his swell tenor. ***Pretty near time now to break out the husky dogs so’s American explorers braving the hardships of the Chiteau Fron tenac will buy parkas, snowshoes and fur-lined mittens and send pictures of themselves enduring northern rigors to the boys back home. ***Several sight drafts pay- able through any recognised jew- elry store have been received by members of the local landed gentry, who are bidden thereby to come to the wedding of Bunny Foster and the little MacDougall girl in Monueal about now. Home Lire, being well acquainted with the groom, wishes the bride luck. «> Doris Thomson and Lor- nie Wiggs came back together from their honeymoon rec'tly and are sitting pretty high on the local social escalator, same being their rightful place. ***Maybe F. P. A. can get roads mended in Connecticut by squawking in Home Lire, but he can't buy Messrs, Moét and Chan- don’s highly regarded product, complete with natural bubbles, for $3.75 a quart. Your corresp’t can. *°*Paul Claudel who runs a branch store for the French Gov't in Wash’ton, D. C., was here with his daughter round the first of the month. Paul stopped with Nar- cisse Perodeau who has a pretty swell house for a Lieutenant Gov- ernor, Leslie Roberts, DETROIT Look out, Deer! Judge Hul- burt, who hunts with bow and arrow in the Indian style, was seen sniffing the autumn ozone the other day and gazing northward with a far-away look in his eye. *°°The big political rumpus having quieted down, Ty Tyson, our genial radio announcer, says it is quite a treat to have the country- savers off the air for a spell, so he can put on something serious. *°*Asked whether it was true in his own case, as Prohibition Commissioner Doran says, that Prohibition is making men better- looking, Tony Maiullo is alleged to have answered, “Well, you can't paint the lily, you know,” ***Some dirty dog held up the gas station at the corner early Monday morning and took $7.20. The dastard drove away in the di- rection of Chicago, whence he probably came from, u% Farm report for Detroit and vicinity: Louis Graveure, noted baritone who is teaching voice at the agricultural college, has had his whiskers harvested, they mak- ing about 99 per cent of a crop. ***Harve Campbell, Board of Commerce secretary, spent a couple of weeks very quictly with the Sheriff Wilsons on Beaubien Street. The Wilsons are all well and look- ing nicely, and have a house full of company nearly all the time, Harve says. ***White-tail Virginia deer are ripe in the land of Michigan. Elmer C. Adams. KANSAS CITY Mr. ano Mrs. Henat Cocuet of La Belle, France, Wednesdayed in our midst recently. While here Hen played a few sets of tennis with our local champ, Junior Cocn, winning same. « Our enterprising used car dealers" bave’ been coca laining some of slack business, but are looking hopefully toward the near future, as our street car company is showing symptoms of applying for 10 cent strect car fares. ***Sergt. “Siki” Myers, who was chief of the liquor raiding squad for so long in our town, re: . —LORD'S DAY, also MART: SUN., Now. 11th Day. Pent for today’s sermon, tired last month to his 4o0-acre e¢s- tate in Wright County, this state, in the heart of the Ozarks. The Main Street viaduct over the Union Station tracks is still torn up, and looks as if it would be for some time to come, as it is quite a job for four men and ea water boy. Our guess is they'll have to put on another man if they intend to get it done before the winter of 1929. wr The Journal, venerable and respected morning paper here for many years, was laid to rest some. days ago by its owner, Wal- ter Dickey. ***Our handsome new sky- scraper, the Southwest Bell Tele- phone ‘Building, is rounding into shape at the 28th story. Aviators and dirigibles, watch your step. Clad H. Thompson. SEATTLE Hattoween passed without anyone trying to set up a buggy on the First Methodist Church Steeple which looks to the ed. like a pretty good answer to all this gossip about the ‘“wild"’ younger generation. **°A stranger named Kreis- ler gave a fiddling program at the local opera house one recent night but a lot of folks were disappointed when he finished without giving any imitations of birds, pumps or squeaky barn doors. & “T know just how Adam felt,"* said our witty mayor, Frank Edwards, when he got out of the hospital after having a broken rib repaired. ***Some of our town wives LAS, also ARMISTICE ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill.” ’ —The day following ARMISTICE DAY. Business MON., Nor. 12th (—hnted as usual in cnunitions factories. ‘TUES. 713th —R. L. Stevenson, writer, born, 1850. WED., Nor. 14th —Hegel, German philosopher, died, 1831, THU., Nor. 15th —F. P. Adams, ye ed., born, 1881, FRI, Nor. 16th —Tiberius, Roman emperor, born, 42 B. C. vo. 17th Princeton vs. Yale. Chicago vs. Mlinois, Cornell vs SAT., Now. 17th Dyitmouth, Towa va. Wisconsin, Penn vs, Columbia, Stan- ford vs. Washington, N. Y. U. vs. Missouri. who hope to get fur coats started their Christmas crying an Hal Burdick. CINCINNATI CuiLt con carne with plent oyster crackers is all the vogue. ***Our younger element are wearing tench coats instead. of slickers and our stationers say bus, is perking up, slickers having cut in on ther guestbook, diary scratch-pad and” pen-wiper sale something awful in the past, ***Coach Joe Meyer over at St. Xavier Coll. uses the Nowe Dame system, excepting the Pull. man jumps being shorter and not so frequent. «> Bill Castellini, our rising young banker, is contemplating writing a book on the chain-siae evil. Go to it, Bill. Bring back the old cracker barrel and the free sticks of licorice wood, is our view. ***The U. S. Census Bureau says our pop. this yr. i 41570, which some cits, say is slander, we having certainly gained more than only 1500 the past yr., they argue. Why take pop. so personally, sy we, also ho hum. Tupper Greenwald, NEW YORK Looks like a white Thanks giving. a John Erskine is abroad in Europe. ***It is not too early to do some Xmas shopping, and there are no better places to do same than in the shops advertised herein,—Adet, & Ic is a long time since Kin Hubbard, our generous Indiana- polis correspondent, has sent us a 1 gal. can of the best maple syrup we ever got from Indiana. ***Many of our jeunesse dorée have already engaged rooms at various Fla. resorts for January. Ye scribe will be right on the jod at home, picking up news items. ***Hugh Wallace was in town last week. Hugh uscd to be Ambassador to France, but he never lent Lindbergh any pajamas, so he is forgotten by the public eye. u> Stoddard King and yc scribe are of the opinion that the Yales will defeat the Harvards in the impending gridiron classic, but Robert Benchley and Rob't Sher- wood, who are Harvard alumnis, think’ the Crimson. will prevail. The latter, however, evidently promised their parents they never would bet. F. P. A. comicbooks.com