Life — August 9, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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WASHINGTON—The District. of Columbia Traffic Bureau in conduct- ing a campaign to cut down traffic accidents finds that of 859 persons arrested for traffic violations since July 1, only twenty-eight were women. or, less than 3.3 per cent which would indicate that women are about thirty times as good as men when it comes to driving machines; even though the anti-feminists argue that it only proves that traffic cops are susceptible. MILWAUKEE, Wis. — Husbands who find it difficult to remember their wife's birthday and the date of their wedding anniversaries will envy Fd ward Reimer, who applied for a license to wed Miss Dorothy Haynes. The record revealed that Miss Haynes’ birthday is July 15. Reimer’s birth day is July 15, and they will be mar- ned July 15. AUBURN, Calif—This city passed an ordinance limiting attendance at public dances after midnight to per sons over the age of eighteen, and Probation Officer L. J. Kinney is try- ing to enforce it. He tapped a dancing damsel on the shoulder and asked her if she knew about the law. She led him to the dressing room, where two young babes were sleeping on a cot. “Those are my grandchildren.” she scornfully informed him, ST. PAUL—Andrew J. Volstead is so shy and unknown by sight, that a theatre circuit recently made him a handsome offer, just to sit on the stage a few minutes a day, so that people could look at the author of the noted act. He turned it down. WASHINGTON—Federal _ statisti- cians report that in the “dry” states of Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Geor- gia, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina 5,000 stills were seized by prohibition agents in 1928. In all the other states combined, only 6,000 stills were seized in the same period. EL PASO, Texas—A small bull, fighting for his life against a large \frican lion came out victorious in the latest gladiatorial event: of the Juarez, bull-hght arena. The fight, first of its kind ever held in Mexico, was held over the protest of the S. P. C. Aw and. several thousand persons. mostly Americans, looked on and cheered. The lion, bought from a circus, was starved for a week before the event. MILLERS FALLS, Vt.—A_passen ger on one of the Central Vermont Electric trains discovered that he had left his suitcase at home. He told the conductor, the conductor pulled the cord, the engineer stopped the train and then backed her up, the passen- ger ran for home, got his suitcase, and the train moved on. LOS ANGELES—]. Timberg, junk dealer, holds the “empty bottle” con cession for eighteen local hotels, The week after the recent Shrine conven tion, he received through his collectors the following bottles: KIND Ginger ale NUMBER 236 gross Gin 08 gross Scotch 63 gross Champagne 22 gross Wine 42 gross Beer 49 gross Tonic 33 gross Miscellaneous 182 gross DENVER—I. PF. Anderson was ar- rested in 1928 for a violation of the liquor law. While out on hail, he shot He re: For killing a man. one vear in the county jail: for operati the penitentiary. and killed a government agent. ceived the following sentences: still, two years in FT. FAIRFIELD, Me—A_nine- hole golf course belonging to the Aroostook Valley country club has just been opened. The course is in Maine but the clubhouse is conven- iently situated just across the border, in Canada. CHICAGO—A fancy to shoot at his wife's feet to make her dance, a fond- ness for hard liquor, and a habit of shoving her into the fireplace when he yot mad, made Mrs. Violet Razor so annoyed with her husband, a Major in the United States Signal Corps, that she could not live with him. The judge decided that she didn’t have to. COUNCIL BLU lowa—Domi- tito Brado asked Recorder Atwood for a license which was granted. Then Brado and his sweetheart started out to be married. Four clergymen turned them down, so they went angrily back to the recorder’s office to find out why. The license was one for hunting and fishing. a Life Abroad BERLIN—A dance café here has in- stalled a telephone on each table so that guests may communicate with one another. This has started many flir tations, for if a man sees a girl with whom he would like to dance, he calls her up and invites her. PARIS—Love insurance is the latest thing here. Husband and wife may take out a joint policy covering both against change of affection. the pay- ment in case of divorce varying with the amount of premium. VIENNA—Recent additions to the Vienna Academy of Science are rel ics from the Nile Delta indicating the use of the lipstick as far back as the Stone Aye. Among the discoveries were palettes for rouge made of ivory. PARIS—Prosecuting Attorney Fachot himself won the acquittal of his would-be assassin, claiming the man had been only the tool of the Alsatian autonomists, whom it is Fachot’s of- ficial business to prosecute. To Be- noit, the man who had tried to kill him, he said, “You have been naive. Go home and be a patriotic French- man.” comicbooks.com