Life — January 11, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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19 KANSAS CITY, January 4.—Ser- geant Duncan, head of the raiding squad, discharges five women who have been used recently by the police in liquor raids. “Their usefulness has been outlived,” the sergeant said, Well, the least he could do would be to turn them out to pasture in a quiet speakeasy. CHICAGO, Ill. — Mary Garden, famous opera star, admits that she is an enthusiastic supporter of a boxing club in} Paris that is trying to produce another champion. We've stood a literary cham- pion, so a tenor should be just as easy to take. NEW YORK CITY.—John D. Rocke- feller, Jr, in a speech asking money for the Broadway temple, skyscraper church, claims that the day of the small church is over and that the skyscraper would at- tract. otherwise indifferent parishioners. And, of course, if it doesn’t, it can be turned into a modern filling station. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The depart- ment of commerce reveals that American capital has over 92 million dollars invested in Bolivia, while there is practically no money from this country in Paraguay. And now Al Smith backers can bet on Paraguay to win the war, if it ever gets under way. JERSEY CITY, Jan. 4.—Assemblyman | McDermott, of this city, is seeking an| impeachment against Judge Dear, of the | Court of Appeals, because the Judge plays golf when he should be signing vouchers. Assemblyman McDermott may know his law, but he doesn’t understand golf. CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 7—The city has only $275,000 with which to meet a} 3% million dollar teacher’s payroll, and the board of education is petitioning the city for another loan. Why not give them all machine guns and let them collect it themselves? SANTA ANA, Cal., Dec. 28.—Clar- ence P. Rand, formerly of El Paso, who has five living wives and no divorces, has been found sane by a Superior Court jury here. Another example of the failure of our jury system. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 30.—Be- cause Morris Miller failed to equip his cow with a tail light he is being sued for $2,500 in Superior Court. She had two horns and he thought that was enough. CARLINSVILLE, Ill, Dec. 26— Adolph Bloome has just completed his twenty-sixth year as a rural mail carrier and has traveled over 208,936 miles, or a distance equal to eight times around the world. Does this include the walks he took on his off days? CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—What this coun- try needs, in the opinion of Dr. Burges Johnson, professor of English at Syracuse University, is some new swear words. He expressed himself at the Executives Club, The professor must have taken up golf. READING, Pa.—Going on a rampage after several drinks of moonshine liquor, Louis Barseline, forty-two, wounded four other workmen with a pistol. Police said the man had been twitted by his fellow workers. Let this be a warning to twitters. “Not a cough in a carload.” comicbooks.com