Life — August 16, 1929 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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MILWAUKEE—A lady Kiwanis at the International convention here, gave the lowdown pungenty, on the men in the United States. “Western men squeeze your rings into your fingers, Southern men hand you a terribly soft line, Middle-westerners are real folksy, and Eastern men try to impress you with their importance.” ATLANTA, Ga.—Sam Allen, walk- ing home late at night with his un- opened pay envelope in his pocket, saw a man cross the street to meet him and knew he faced a hold-up. Hastily he dropped the pay envelope and his watch into a mail box, and the bandit went away cursing after the stick-up. Sam got his things at the postoffice the next day. DWIGHT, Ill.—Owing to “in- creased habitual intoxication among women,” the Keeley Cure Institute is for the first time in its history accept- ing women patients, and an annex has been built for their accommodation. According to Secretary Nelson, the “white collar” class yields more pa- tients than the working class, and most of the women are well to do. LOS ANGELES—Hollywood ex- tras are being paid $7.50 a day for laughing out loud. They act as an un- seen audience so that comedians can get the proper reaction and pep for their clowning. TEXARKANA—Fourteen women were arrested in the western district of Arkansas for bootlegging on the first day of a round-up which the dry forces promise to continue until hun- dreds of women find themselves fac- ing a Feder=" judge. Half the women are white, the others negresses. The Prohibition administrator says that three-quarters of the bootlegging in Arkansas is carried on by women. BUFFALO —Two state troopers arrested Walter Trazak, of Lime Lake, on suspicion of violating the Volstead act, because his face was “real red and flushed.” Judge Hazel called the case “a shocking outrage” and rebuked the troopers. CHICAGO—Seeking new “Truths” and “re-education” of their minds, George Huntley Aron, self-hailed leader of the world-wide fasting clubs, and thirty-five followers, are on a ninety-day fast in the virgin wilder- ness of Colorado. Dr. Aron says that fasting accom- plishes the hypnotising and _re-educa- tion of the sub-conscious mind, and that during the ninety days he and a num- ber of his converts expect to become clairvoyant and to reveal many impor- tant truths. HAMMOND, Ind.—A musical golf- ball, which hums for fifteen minutes after coming to a stop, thus enabling the player to find it in all kinds of traps and thickets, is an invention claimed by Joe Salyer of Hammond. He calls it the “Humdinger.” CHICAGO—Alexander Boehmer, with police permission, has erected the following sign in his front yard: “One hundred dollars reward will be paid for the arrest and conviction of the low- down, God-for-saken culprits who ma- liciously destroyed this lawn; cursed are they, their seed, and the very ground they trod.” JACKSON, Miss—Gov. Theodore Bilbo says that certain charges made against him are “the most inexcusable, unreasonable, unthinkable, contempti- ble, diabolical, damnable and pusillani- mous falsehoods ever conceived in the twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted vil- lain and assassin.” SUTTON CENTER, Mass.— “Grandma” Caroline Freeland has just celebrated her 104th birthday. She can still, she says, “have a bedtime snack of cheese and mince pie, and yet enjoy a good night's rest.” DALLAS, Texas—Twenty automo- biles parked on a downtown street were burned when flowing whisky in the gutter ignited. The liquor had been taken in raids and was being poured out by deputy sheriffs and pro- hibition officers. Life Abroad GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador—Standing majestically in a den of lions, Pas- quali, a poet, recited a long poem dedi- cated to the women of Ecuador before a spellbound audience at a circus. The poct was as self-composed as the Biblical Daniel. The lions, re- maining impassive throughout the rec- itation, stood to one side and allowed Pasquali to leave the cage without hindrance. LONDON—Cyril Tolley, British amateur golf champion, sued for $5,- 000 for the unauthorized use of his picture in a candy advertisement and got judgment. Tolley’s complaint was not that he failed to receive money for the picture, but that people might get the idea that he had and that his ama- teur status would be impaired. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador—A boa constrictor made its way out of the jungle and invaded a ward in the city hospital in which were seven patients suffering from a particular type of paralysis induced by hysteria. In an instant the ward was empty, the para- lytics had left their beds and their wheel-chairs and were out. After the snake was killed Dr. Lombard rounded up his patients, and found them all permanently cured by their fright. comicbooks.com