Life — April 26, 1929 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Local pur- chasers of bootleg liquor who are short measured may refer the matter to City Sealer W. C. Fraser with as- surance that their loss will be prose- cuted. WASHINGTON, Pa.—A_ Wash- ington hospital has established a hus- band’s room in its maternity depart- ment. Agonized husbands can now smoke themselves into insensibility in- stead of pacing the corridors. NEW YORK—George L. Loft, candy potentate, claims that business is dull in his line because people are drinking so much. “By the time they get through paying bootleg prices for their liquor, they haven't much money left to buy candy with,” he complains. CHAPEL HILL, N. C.—Bruce Strowd has taken out a $10,000 in- surance policy to protect his garage from damage by falling airplanes. LANSING, Mich.—Senator Ernest T. Conlon’s bill to prohibit the carry- ing of firearms by intoxicated persons, was passed by the House, and now goes to the Governor for signature. NORFOLK, Va.—The home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Waterfield was or- dered padlocked for a year in Federal Court by Judge D. Lawrence Groner, under authority of the prohibition act. NEW YORK—Heinrich Hagen- beck, visiting America, says the United States has the rarest animals in the world in its zoos. In its zoos? NEW YORK—Pierre S. du Pont, president of the du Pont de Nemours company, says that the wealth of this country is fairly distributed. Now suppose Mr. du Pont were a truck driver with a wife and six kids ona salary of $27.50 a week. ... WASHINGTON—Rifle practice by high school girls here was denounced at a citizens’ association mecting by R. J. Jones, who declared “the husband is the only common target of the mod- ern woman.” HAVERHILL, Mass.—Rev. H. E. Hurd resigned from the Central Con- gregational pastorate because he was not permitted to print his original poetry on the church programs. DURHAM, N. C.—This city boasts the heaviest police department in the south; ¢. g., Officers Burgess, Goley and Yates weigh 825 pounds collec- tively. CHICAGO—Robert Milton reported to the police that his wife had burned all his clothes to keep him from going out nights. Weatner MAN: It might be an earthquake and then again it’s probably just another of those d’-x!?! electric vibrators! PHILADELPHIA—The Methodis Men’s committee has petitioned Presi- dent Hoover to cancel the order per- mitting foreign ambassadors to receive liquor. They also ask that he banish all envoys who drink. NEW YORK—Abraham Vogel has organized a “League for Sensible Clothing.” He has issued a call for men of great moral courage who will go hatless, coatless and vestless in the summer months. CHICAGO—Tinted ears were dis played at the Mid-West beauty show, They go best with bobbed hair. A strand of hair is curled to encircle the ear and then the ear is tinted, gold with black hair and green with blonde. PITTSBURGH—O. J. Coats, twenty- eight years old, of Carnegie, was held today on a charge of stealing a trolley car. The police said he took it from the yards of the Pittsburgh Railways Company and went joy riding Satur- day night. ‘ BIRMINGHAM, Ala—A whole string of business houses on Fourth Avenue, near the City Hall are vacant. The reason why is simple. The Po licemen’s Band practices in one of them about eight hours every day. MUSCONGUS, Me.—Fire broke out in a building next to the postoffice. As there is no fire-fighting equipment in this village, the postoffice was sawed from its foundations and dragged to safety. CHICAGO—Patrolman Morris Marcuson entered a phone booth while wearing heavy underwear. He became so hot and scratched himself so vig- orously that his revolver went off and put a bullet in his thigh. comicbooks.com