Life — March 15, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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DETROIT—Action to compel 218 bootleggers to pay special excise taxes totaling $447,407 was begun in federal court here. LL PHILADELPHIA—Beauty shops for men will be established in the near future, Miss Katherine Harris told delegates to the Philadelphia Hair Dressers’ association convention. LL YORK—Warden Lawes of Sing Sing advises social agencies to stress the unprofitableness of crime. Conditions are pitiful, he reports. The net haul for the average robbery dur- ing 1927, for example, was only $30.75. NEW L AMES, Ia—In one hour, Boy Scouts stationed at 27 of the city’s sect intersections, reported 2,664 vio- lations of traffic ordinances. One sout reported a young man was “hold- ing his sweetie with one arm and driv- ing with the other.” LL WASHINGTON—The State De- partment reports that 400,000 Ameri- ans are now registered as permanent residents of other countries. There we only a few of us left! LL HOWENSVILLE, Ind.—The minis. ters of several churches here have nised the curtained railings in front of the choir lofts to hide the knees of the lady singers. Attendance at the services is falling off. -L NEW YORK—Frank Perna. ar- rested for stealing $12 from a shop, aan explain everything. He was walk- ng past the shop when he slipped on an orange peel, crashed open the door. which broke the cash register, and he then suddenly remembered the pro- Pictor owed him $12, so he took it. CHICAGO—1850 drugstores have arranged to have their telephone booths removed. The first thing you know, these drugstores will be featuring drugs. -L WAPAKONETA, O.—A__ public dog bath was opened by Fenton Hamil- ton and Chas. Fleming. Prices range from 20 to 50 cents. “Kind treatment and face washed separately,” they guarantee. Max—“Fifth floor, please.” MILWAUKEE—Tired of answer- ing the telephone only to find it was the “wrong number,” Mrs. Agnes Streiff has filed suit against the Wis- consin Telephone Co. for $5,000. Whenever she was busy with the week's wash in the basement, she testi- fied, the phone would ring a dozen times or more and that she would climb the stairs as often only to find the operator had rung the wrong num- ber. LL LOUIS—A sticking whistle on a switch engine recently blew for 20 minutes. The police were swamped with phone calls from alarmed citizens who thought it was a warning of a cyclone, Bolshevik attack, or what have you. LL DETROIT—Big hearted Orin Mills donated $100 to the Anti-Saloon League. To his wife and children he gave $1. Mrs. Mills became irritated and sued for divorce. L CHICAGO—Mrs, Mary Lee paid Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, practicing psy- chologist, a $1500 fee for “thought treatments.” But though the treat- ments cured her of nervousness, they failed to cure her hogs of cholera as promised, so she is suing to get her money back. LL NEW YORK—Dr. Osborn, presi- dent of the American Museum of Nat- ural History, reports that “in the course of the last 18 years, Eoanthropus and Pithecanthropus have changed places in the geologic time scale.” Boy, that’s good news! LL NEW YORK—Oliver Dean, arrested for stealing dope, maintained that he was not only innocent, but “a benefac- tor to humanity,” because he deceived addicts by selling a harmless substitute for the narcotic. A logie-blind judge held him on $1,000 bail. comicbooks.com