Life — March 22, 1929 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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WICHITA FALLS, Texas—B cause she smoked a cigarette in a caf Ruby Bouse, seventeen, is serving a twenty-day jail sentence. A technical cha of vagrancy, filed by the cafe owner, brought her into court, where she irritated the Judge by singing merrily during the entire hearing. ney: All I have to do ts to find the ringleader. ROANOKE, Va.—Dr. Ivey Fore- man, of the University of Virginia, helieves our most remote ancestors had large eyebrows, no chins and meager brain capacity. So that's where the comic strip characters came from, JL NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Two burly campus cops were summoned to eject a sleeping Yale senior from an English class when his snoring drowned out the lecture. aL KANSAS CITY—After surviving national prohibition nearly ten years, the Muehlebach Brewery has gone out of business here, unable, its officials said, to compete with home brewers and bootleggers in catering to the thirsty. It turned to near beer man- ufacture after Prohibition. The brew- ery was founded sixty years ago. BOSTON—The House yesterday, by a rising vote of 34 to 64, refused to pass a bill prohibiting the opera- tion of an automobile by a person who at the same time has an arm about another. aL HARTFORD—The 43rd_ Division Air Service is asking the General As- sembly to vote them $1000 for banana oil! They want it to put on airplane wings. That isn’t the way the Assem- blymen use it! AL CHICAGO—Local racketeers hang around cigar counters and bet cus- tomers $5 that “your cigar lighter won't work.” And one man boasts he makes $300 a week regularly. aL CAMBRID son tor ~ given to-day by Timothy J. Croake, twenty-nine, of Dorchester. When ar- rested as a mail box thief Croake said he stole missives from letter boxes “be- cause T like to read love letters.” Mass.—A novel rea- from the mails was Revenue Acent: Peek-a-Boo! TACOMA, Wash.—A “hair-raising” contest over a five-year course is under way here with two business men as opponents, it was revealed recently with the filing of a document in the county auditor's office by Homer Mec- Farlane and William Hendry in which they agree that the one whose bald spot is the larger on January 31, 1934, must pay the other the sum of $50. i = WZ) “No, you won't do, Eustace, | want to be loved in a big way.” CLARINDA, Iowa—A couple paid for a marriage license with 300 pennies aved during courtship, they said. Now they can begin saving for the divorce. L AUSTIN, Tex.—A bill has passed the Legislature requiring three days’ notice of intention to wed. This is to prevent the hasty liquor marriages so prevalent under Prohibition. LL NEW YORK—Adolph Menjou an- nounces that he owns more suspenders than any other man. “At this moment my wardrobe comprises about 100 suits,” he says, “and [ have a pair of suspenders for every pair of trousers.” ae NEW YORK—Joseph Lewis, head of the Freethinkers of America, issued the following statement: “Herbert Hoover's first act after tak- ing the oath of office as President in kissing the Bible was a most unbecom- ing act.” comicbooks.com