Life — May 17, 1929 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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CHICAGO—When Moe, elephant of .the Sells-Floto circus, contracted pneumonia, Prohibition Administrator Yellowley was prevailed on to sign a permit for three gallons of alcohol for medicinal administration. The patient recovered. Tip—get an elephant for a pet. NEW YORK—Dr. A. S. Barrett, re- cently returned African explorer, claims that savages behave more like ladies and gentlemen at dances than modern American college students. “They wear more clothes, and are more modest, and when they get drunk they do it politely.” SACRAMENTO—The $1,000,000 plant of the Buffalo Brewing Com- pany, manufacturers of near beer, was closed because the company could not compete with bootleggers and home brewers. NEW YORK—Mrs. H. J. Fiene has come all the way from Seattle, where, apparently, they still wear them, to lay in a stock of underskirts for a clothing firm. Authorities. on women’s clothing said they could not remember when the last petticoat buyer registered. HANNIBAL, Mo.—A bill has been introduced here to compel farmers’ wives to serve hot biscuits twice a day under penalty of being forbidden to attend moving picture shows and other public entertainments. CHICAGO—According to the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Boards, the land that you own extends down to the center of the earth and up to the sky. Legal authorities state, however, that landowners cannot stop aviators from flying over their land. NEWARK, N. J.—Now it’s airplane “parking.” Lieut. Richard Aldworth, manager of the Newark Municipal Air- port, has announced a parking charge of $5 a day for airplanes parked out- side the hangars for more than twenty- four hours. HORNELL, N. Y.—Albert Hunt is now a firm believer in Providence. He had laid a fire with paper and kindling in his kitchen stove, when a bolt of lightning traveled down the chimney and ignited the fuel he had prepared. NEW YORK—Sylvester Walker bought a new artificial leg for his girl as a token of his affection. When she later turned him down, he attempted to take back his present by force, so she had him arrested. TRENTON, N. J.—While Assem- blyman Kalamen was discussing a bill, two of his colleagues went up to a balcony and poured a pitcher of ice water on him. The prank provoked much laughter in the Assembly. NEW YORK—The Salvation Army held an old fashioned “gospel-temper- ance” meeting, at which several hun- dred hoboes were present. Lieut. Col. Winchell announced that each one who signed the temperance pledge would get a free meal. Everybody signed. HARRISBURG, Pa.—Aviators who have handbills to deliver in Harris- burg must put them under the doors of the houses. How they are to ac- complish this doesn’t matter, accord- ing to Chief of Police Joseph Thomp- son. He dug up an old ordinance which requires the placing of circu- lars under doors to prevent them blow- ing on the streets. It will be enforced against the aviators, he says, SAN FRANCISCO—Miss Blanche Pringle was arrested here for shoplift- ing and when arraigned before Judge Steiger gave this excuse: “I was for. merly a department store detective in Chicago and came here without a job; So just to prove to the management that they needed a good house detective I determined to steal something and then present the proofs to them.” She got the job! CLINTON, Pa.—E. E. Wooleych swore out a warrant for the arrest of Mrs, A. M. Campbell, who, he alleges, spent the $500 he sent her in answer to a matrimonial ad. and then wouldn't marry him. MONROE, Conn—Rev. Henry Steele Habersham claims the distinc. tion of being the only minister in the United States who is the chief of a fire department. “Chief” Habersham drives the fire apparatus to all fires in his territory and recently jumped from his pulpit during a sermon to answer acall. Rev. Mr. Habersham is seventy years old, but has the vigor of a man half his age. BOSTON—While in masquerade costume her husband leaned over the bed on which she was sleeping and frightened her by shouting “boo!” Mrs. Edmond Bigelow testified in Probate Court here. She was granted a divorce on the grounds of cruel and abusive treatment. CHICAGO—The high estimate which modern woman makes of her importance in the scheme of things sent Harvard down to defeat tonight before the University of Chicago in a joint debate on the question, “Resolved that emancipated woman is a curse.” The decision, rendered by the bal- lots of an audience composed largely of University women, was 333 to 144 against the affirmative side of question supported by a Harvard team. comicbooks.com