Life — November 23, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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A THOUGHT: bigger than ell creation, fi A Weekly Periodical WEATHER FORECAST: Partly Cloudy. Family People Franklin P. Adams, Editor. EDITORIAL | We find it necessary to speak again of a subject which is important to everybody in this nation, We refer to the practice, now sadly on the in- crease, of buying articles from the so-called mail order houses. The buyers tell us that they can buy certain things cheaper from these so- called mail order houses than they can buy them from our own local merchants, Well, it is not true about everything, and even if it is, what of it? There is more in life than the apparent saving of a few paltry pennies. When you need another school in your town, who builds When you need a street paved, who paves it? The answer to the latter query is Nobody. Most of the streets in all towns are in a terrible condition, W".y? There is no money to pay for them. Why? Because too many people patronize the so-called mail order houses. Buy from home town merchants, especially adver- Users, and watch your town grow. LOCAL NEWS MINNESOTA You can’t get ahead of our heal folks in’ business, by heck! Atkinson's and Dayton's recently materials for sale over especially for then Graf Zeppelin.”* & Louis Piper, President of the Universal Aviation Corpora- tion, announces direct Minne- apolis-New York passenger plane connections, Planes will fly both ways (West to East, East to West) thereby maintaining the same aver- age density of population in the two cities as at present. ur A quict home wedding was celebrated last evening at the home rabbbjkab ccfzorrm) fop rr expedition into Patagonia backed by the National Geographic So- ciet ***Watch the University of Minnesota football team in 1929!— Adet. Michael Fleming. NEW ENGLAND: Boytston Street has just been nicely resurfaced, so any time in the next few weeks will be an ideal time to put in new gas pipes, telephone conduits or something. ***John Bantry is the pen name of Cliff Carberry, the editor of the Boston Post. Cliff uses the nom de plume so if an irate sub- scriber don’t like his stuff, he can say he fired John Bantry. « Bill Wrigley of Chicago had an ad. in one of the local papers this week boosting his gum. *eeThe Harvard student body is in New Haven this week- end for the Harvard-Yale game. Yale is offering odds of 20 to 15%, so the Harvard boys are betting their shirts. ***The Roxbury fire dept. answered a still alarm last week. The still exploded, causing $50 damage. The total’ loss was six gallons. ***8ill Cunningham, who used to be an All-America guard at Dartmouth before he took up marriage, is now prouder of his one-year-old baby than he is of his gold football. And Doris thinks the baby is more wonderful just sucking its toes than Bill was block- ing punts against Cornell and Har- vard. Funny how things work out that way. *When “The Queen's Husband"’ comes to Boston, watch Hoste Lire give it a good notice. It is by the author of ‘The Road to Rome," who knows a good New England secs him, correspondent when he ***Some of our little chaps are taking lessons in Indian lore and learning how to start forest fires without matches. Neal O'Hara. CALIFORNIA Tue Catirornia Institute of Technology is getting the biggest | telescope in the world. On clear days, it gives you a dandy view of one billion light years in all dirce- tons. u* Miss Marion Davies got quite a write-up in the L.A. Examiner on her recent return from Eur, The All-Year Club of So. Cal, has got up a neat booklet tell- ing the charms of this section, We can get one sent free to any certi- fied subscriber to Home Lire ***Jean Hersholt’s banana tree is bearing this season, it pro- ducing a nice crop of bananas. ***William J. Locke is here from Merrie Eng. Like most visi- tors, he seemed. kind of disap- pointed to find Hollywood just one big, clean, wholesome, happy fam- ily. > Now is about the time when we like to point out that the long delay between election and in- | auguration was all right in the days when the winner had to make the trip to the capital via horse, but not any more. Wm. ]. Pringle, Jr. MICHIGAN Mr. ano Mars. Art Marscu- Nex are the proud father and mother respectively of a seven pound baby boy. Art was passing out some cigars that he had taken the bands off of, but several fav- ored ones thought they tasted like expensive 10-centers. « Julius Rolshoven, one of our famous painters, had a. pic- ture of his on the cover of the Literary Digest. The writer also appeared in that magazine not long since, he being the ‘1’ of those 94,051 who assisted in the straw vote from this state. RAB ar The jitneys which were ordered off the streets of Detroit by a city ordinance six years ago, are going to gct right off, and no monkey business, Clarence Wilcox, corporation counsel, promises, ***Among the women whom we are proud to say are taking a prominent part in affairs is Mrs, Chas. E. Hyde, new chairman of the Ping Paper Nuisance Commit- tee of the Civic Pride Association of Greater Detroit. ***Benny Friedman who cap- tains the Detroit professional foot- ball team and plays the stellar réle has sure been making the other teams look like they had lost their happy home. ***Ed Gist, the barber, is packing his safety razor soon and starting on his annual golf vaca- tion in the South. Ed can trim most golfers neatly, and that doesn't’ mean only in the chair, either, Elmer C. Adams. _ COLORADO Tue Grim Reaper is with us again this month, also the Stork. & Incomplete returns point to the elecuon of our civic bene- factor Rex Yeager as Vice Pres. of The Campfire Girls. Rex is 100%. ***Sam Freed has quit smok- ing. ***Leave Home Lire design, print and mail your Christmas cards. Lists furnished. You don't even have to read proof. ***No sign of Halley's comet at this writing. « In the egg laying contest between Fred Hart and Allen True we are betting on Fred as we have often pointed out the superiority of the black minorca for late fall work. ***Answer to last week's Rebus: ‘Twenty-three Skidoo!" ***Robert Slack, our leading impresario, has not announced if the Chicago Opera will come this winter, *°*There’s a certain party in this town that—well, it's lucky comicbooks.com