Life — March 8, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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WASHINGTON—A lighting | sys- tem is being installed to remove the irightened expression from the face of Lincoln's statue in his Memorial. Well, could you expect him to look at the current crop of Congressmen and stay calm? iL MOORHEAD, Minn.—H. C. Boyle, 82 years of age, and former Mayor of Clyndon, was fined $1.00 by the cir- cuit court for writing poetry and otherwise alienating the affections of Mrs. L. J. Bowman, 53. iL KALAMAZOO, Mich—When George Whiting appeared in court for the ninety-fifth time for drunkenness it was disclosed that, while he was arrested only forty-three times before prohibition, he has been arrested fifty- two times since the dry law became effective. LL HAVERSTRAW, New York—Two large grizzly bears will insure that the garage of Louis Hoyt, already robbed twice, will not be disturbed again. The bears are kept in cages and will be re- leased nightly to roam about the ga- rage. aL EAST ORANGE, N. J.—Edward Schill advocates instruction in music for the young, as a crime deterrent. He says, “If you teach a boy to blow a saxophone, he will never blow a safe.” Thanks, Mr. Schill, but we believe we'd rather have him blow a safe! LL CADIZ, Ohio—The bazaar held by the women of the Methodist church last Thursday evening was a tremen- dous financial success as well as a social feature. The receipts amounted to $3.00, WOOSTER, Ohio—In spite of re- peated warnings from doctors, John Gerhart regularly ate five pies per day. He ate them for 35 years, and has just died at the tender age of 87. LL CHICAGO, IIl—Pleading _incom- patibility as bridge partners, Mrs. Ruth K. Wood of Oak Park, was granted a divorce from Gerald C. Wood. Su- perior Judge Gemmill indicated he will give her a decree for cruelty. aL CARLISLE, Mass.—Mrs. Jennie Fisk of this town objected to her hus- band’s running for Town Treasurer. So she ran for the office herself. She was elected. LL OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—A dis- appointed burglar, failing to find money after breaking into the safe of the Oklahoma Mattress Company here, left the following note: “When I return to your fair city please leave some cash. T am hun- gry, you tightwad.” iL WORCESTER, Mass.—Boys attend- ing the Middlesex Avenue School, who were found to have a quantity of dyna- mite in their possession, told detec- tives today that they had planned to put it on the tracks of the Boston and Albany Railroad near the Hamilton street Bridge. The boys said they wanted “to hear the dynamite boom as the train passed over it.” The comic strip influence. iL NEW YORK—Victor J. Bello, car- toonist, painter, gentleman thief, ac- cepted a sentence of from twelve to twenty years in prison enthusiastically. “It will give me time to cultivate my art so when I get out I can make an honest living,” he said. ST. LOUIS—When physicians were X-raying the skull of William Stewart, 41, Negro, to see what injuries he had sustained in a fall on an icy sidewalk, they found a bullet lodged in his head. “It must have been there a long time,” Stewart exclaimed, laughingly. “My wife shot me in the head atter a little argument twenty-two years ago.” aL KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Mrs. Marion Boldt, Travelers’ Aid agent, saw an 8-year-old boy smoking a cigaret. She rushed to his father to spill the awful news. “Sure,” said the proud parent, “[ taught him to smoke when he was only 2.” LL SAN FRANCISCO—Bernard_ Ber- nard, 38 years old, who is just five feet one inch tall, was arrested today on a charge of using the mails to de- fraud in the sale of a device which he represented would increase the height of his clients, a ALBION, Mich—At an_ exciting point in a basketball game between Hillsdale and Albion, the timekeeper swallowed the whistle. And the game had to be called off. LL JACKSON, Miss.—George H. Tag- gart, a traveling salesman from Balti- more, has won renown as a sound sleeper. In a train wreck near here searchers in the ruins of the wreck in which sleeping cars were smashed and piled up found Taggart sound asleep and snoring. He had not heard of any wreck, he said. LL VINELAND, N. J.—Ervine Green- blatt, 11 years old, was promised $25.00 by an uncle if he made good progress in his studies. He did so and when the uncle forgot to give him his reward young Greenblatt started suit for the money. The plaintiff lost the case and got a spank- ing. comicbooks.com