Life — May 3, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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NEW YORK—According to the in- vesument house at Lawerence Stern & Co., women control 41 per cent of the individual wealth of the United States. What do you mean 41 per cent? REVERE, Mass.—Bootleggers un- wittingly contributed to civic uplift here. Confiscated stills were sold by the police for $231, and of this sum $200 was spent for an electric sign bearing the admonition “Build up Re- vere. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio—The Spring- field Bachelor's Club, organized in 1910, has recently been disbanded ow- ing to all but three of its members getting married. SAN FRANCISCO—The city council of Hanford, Calif., in special session has passed a resolution con- demning cigarette advertising on bill- boards. “Such advertising,” they de- dare, “is an insult to our conception of the ineffable sweetness and high morality of our girls.” MINNEAPOLIS—A freak cyclone tore off the pants of Thomas Edmunds, radio operator, and blew them away. Edmunds was annoyed. He had $20 in the pants, CHICAGO—Thomas Pillion laughed loudly at a sad moment in a show- ing of the moving picture “The Har- vester,” and was ejected from the thea- ter. He sued, and collected $300 damages. NEW YORK—Police Commissioner Whalen says there are 32,000 speak- casies in New York City. He defines a speakeasy as two bottles and a room. Which makes about two speakeasies to every three hotel rooms. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—A restaurant has had to post a sign requesting ladies not to smoke between twelve and two P. M. They smoked so furiously and incessantly that men patrons ob- jected to the unreasonable pollution of the air. BRONXVILLE, N. Y.—Because newly wedded commuters took too much time to kiss their wives goodby at the train in the morning, Bronx- ville bachelors and older married men protested. Now the railroad company will assign extra police to the station to speed up the farewell process. CHICAGO—Alcoholism is on the increase so rapidly in the tenth year of prohibition that 1929 promises to register an unprecedented _ post-war record, says a statement issued by Dr. James H. Oughton, head of the Keeley institute at Dwight, Ill. NEW YORK—Runaway girls reach this city at the rate of twenty per day, reports Capt. Ayres of the missing per- sons bureau. The chief causes of their vagrancy are—over-chaperoning, poverty and unloving home atmos- phere. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—John McCabe of Brooklyn was sentenced in Adams street court by Magistrate Eilperin to kiss his wife, every morning for six months, or to serve six months in the work house. McCabe chose to kiss his wife. HORTON, Kan.—The “Horton Headlight” pointedly printed a list of eligible bachelors of this locality a short time ago. A_ recent checkup shows that eleven of them have been goaded into wedlock. EVANSTON, IIl.—Mrs. Ella Boole, W. C. T. U. Madame, is positive that people can be educated into prohibi- tion, She says, “I gave some recipes for grapejuice drinks to a woman of foreign extraction who had been ac- customed to wines. After using them, she quit making wine.” ALLENTOWN, Pa.—A crude cop- per still was found in possession of prisoners in the Lehigh county jail. They used it to distill liquor from their daily ration of prunes. Stone walls do not a prison make. CHICAGO, Ill—In a recent state- ment by popular mechanics magazine, it has been discovered that a person jraveling in an upper berth travels sixteen inches further than a person in a lower, owing to the arc of the earth. Wait till the Scotchmen find that out! OAKLEY, Idaho—After doing with- out a physician for several years be- cause there were not enough sick peo- ple, residents of this city have pooled together and engaged a doctor. It is agreed in his contract that if his fees fall below a “proper income” he will be paid from a fund made up by as- sessments on citizens. EASTON, Pa.—Recent _ investiga- tions at Lafayette College have shown that thin men have better brains than fat ones. It was found that those under weight stood better in their studies than their heavier brothers. PORTLAND, Ore.—Mrs. Guy Pet- tingill will entertain the members of the Sometimes Twelve Club at her home, Central Avenue, Peaks Island, this evening. Sewing will be enjoyed and the hostess will serve a buffet lunch. There will be one guest, Mrs. Smith, of Standish. comicbooks.com