Life — July 12, 1929 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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NEW YORK—Convinced that an antique could come into America duty free, a passenger on the Albert Ballin returning from France brought with him a bottle of Napoleon brandy, more than one hundred years old, and claimed exemption for that reason. The bottle was seized despite his pro- test. Such is prohibition! PONCA CITY, Okla—A_ scheme for brightening up Saturday afternoons for women has been devised by the mayor. He is arranging a rolling-pin throwing competition for married women, and the target, if the mayor can find one, will be a wife beater. Failing this, a colored man who has figured as target in baseball throwing booths, has consented to take his chance at $20 an afternoon. The woman who scores the most hits will receive a parcel of groceries. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On the eve of graduation Edward Fitzhugh, Jr., Harvard senior, has been dismissed from the University, because of the class hymn which he wrote. It was discovered that the first letters of the sixteen lines read downward spelled very bad words indeed. University authorities say the acrostic is too per- fectly executed to have been a mere chance. CHICAGO—Mayor Thompson re- ceived a letter from Lloyd Kreutz- weiser, who explained that he was “traveling with a minister” and asked police protection when he passes through here en route to Anderson, Ind., from Saskatoon, Sask. “We wish to pass through the great city of Chicago,” he wrote, “but we desire to get out alive.” Kreutzweiser gave the make of his _ automobile, the license number and route of travel. He expected a police escort to meet him at the city limits. NEW YORK—Says the Rev. Dr. Christian F, Reisner, “New York is one of the cleanest, finest and dryest cities in America, and a million times better than before Prohibition.” CHICAGO—The wax ladies in the department store windows have been ordered to cut out the frown and smile. The International Association of Dis- play Men has decided that the public resents being high-hatted, in a manner of speaking, by the waxen figures on which are draped the very latest and costliest of garments. WILMINGTON, Del.—When he landed in a wheat field, Davis Mac- Donald Wallace was nabbed by state- highway policemen for operating an airplane while intoxicated. The police weren't used to airplane intoxication and turned MacDonald over to the federal authorities. GALVESTON, Texas—When of- fered a $15,000 theatrical contract to appear before the public in a bathing suit, Miss Lisle Goldarbeiter, “Miss Universe,” cabled home to Vienna for permission. “Papa must decide,” she said. ST. LOUIS, Mo—George Metal concealed three personal checks for $1,355, and four $20 bills in his tele- phone book. The book was collected the same day when a new edition was delivered. Now George has started a search through 14,000 old phone books which were dumped into a freight car for shipment to a paper mill. GARY, Ind.—Al Shaw of Chicago was arrested for driving fifteen miles an hour on the Lake County highways and paid a $5.00 fine for his poky progress. He was the first man to be arrested in the Indiana campaign against slow driving. NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Fire fighters raced through the city to an alarm-box, from which a warning had been sounded. Across the front of the box they found a board bearing the legend, “Pardon me. My mistake.” PEORIA, IIl_—Two tin cans partly filled with marbles were used by a Detroit “mail order” bootlegger to dis- guise a packing case full of liquor seized by Federal Prohibition agents today. The marbles rattling in the cans made a noise intended to con- vince the inquisitive that the packing cases really contained machinery as the waypbill said. ST. LOUIS—H. L. Hammill, St. Louis general agent of the Chicago and Northwestern, reported that a shab- bily dressed man paid him $30 “for rides I took on your road as a bum.” MOUNTAINSIDE, N. J.—Chop- ping up what he believed to be a solid block of wood, Jacob Dunbar found it to contain $6,000. The money had been hidden by his dead father, who distrusted banks. Life Abroad HALIFAX, N. S.—After ten years service, the keeper of the Gannet Rock Lighthouse, the most isolated station on the eastern seaboard, has resigned, saying he can no longer bear the soli- tude. Twelve men have already ap- plied for the job; a married man will be chosen this time, say the officials. Yes, but can he get away with it? RUCPHEN, Holland—The only moving picture house here has been closed for five years for violation of the law that the male and female patrons must be rigorously separated, married or single. The police found a man and his wife sitting together. comicbooks.com