Life — June 28, 1929 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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CHICAGO—One_ result of Mrs. Helen Johnson's suit to divorce Arthur Johnson was the writing into the court records of several new Scotch stories. Mrs. Johnson set forth through her. attorney that her husband was Scotch; that is: He wouldn't permit her to use the vacuum cleaner for fear it would wear out the rugs. He would set his alarm clock. then awaken before it rang, shut- ting it off to save the spring. He would take the clock to his mother’s room upstairs, thus sav- ing the expense of a second clock. On July 4, the complaint went on, Johnson did not buy firecrackers, but celebrated the day by going around the house shouting “boom!” On the same day, states Mrs. Johnson, her husband struck her in the face, which is why she left him. PIKESVILLE, Ky.—The following advertisement appeared in a Pikesville newspaper: “Notice: I hereby notify a certain family on Ferguson creek to quit sending men to my place to buy liquor, as I have quit the business, and they are able to take care of the cus- tomers themselves.” BOSTON—Thirteen copies of Vol- taire’s “Candide” were seized as ob- scene by Collector of Port Lufkin, backed, it is said, by Treasury officials at_ Washington. COLUMBUS, Ind.—As an induce- ment to attend Sunday School at the Tabernacle Church, a coat hanger was promised to every person present. At the end of the services, a neat package was handed to each one. It contained a nail. KANSAS CITY—More than seven hundred gallons of alcohol remaining from a dry raid here will be used next winter to keep police automobile radi- ators from freezing. NEW YORK CITY—“Pussyfoot” Johnson brings these drinking notes from abroad: There is hard drinking in Germany, harder in England, the hardest of all in France where most drunks are Americans. Denmark is the dryest and there isn’t any liquor on the Dollar Line ships as Congressman La Guardia said there was. CHICAGO—Superior Court Clerk Szymezak reports that almost 40% of Chicago marriages end in divorce. For the first quarter of 1929, there Were 5,300 divorce actions as against 11,482 marriages. SIKESTON, Mo.—A tornado which demolished the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hargraves, twelve miles east of Sikeston, carried Mrs. Hargraves’ school diploma across the Mississippi River to Broughton, Ill, eighty miles away. The paper was found recently by Mrs. Lillie Kerr. That's further than most diplomas go. NEWARK, N. J.—Lawrence Town- send, parachute jumper, floated into a tree on W. E. Franck’s property, and was arrested for trespassing, as were two men who ran to his assistance. HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Peculiarities of speech are worth good money here. Director George Fitzmaurice says he paid a good lisper $50 for a day's work, and that a first class stutterer can get $100. They are called “char- acter voices.” So that’s where all these talkie actors come from! CHICAGO—The gunman and the gangster through “racketeering” are actually in control of more than ninety necessary economic activities in Chi- cago, according to the organized crime survey report which is being pub- lished. KANSAS CITY—Because the straw- berry season in the Ozarks is in full swing Judge Emery Smith at Cassville released three prisoners so that they might help pick berries. They will return to jail when the season is over. INDIANAPOLIS—Mrs,_ Ascencion Gradewell, thirty-eight, told her hus- band that she'd shoot herself rather than be divorced. He departed. She retired to a shed in the rear of the house and neighbors heard four shots. They rushed in and found her clutch- ing the revolver, She had missed every time. An hour later she was fined a dollar and costs for shooting within the city limits. Life Abroad LONDON—“I think we ought to have a great deal more of the work done by women,” said Miss Herring, of London, at the Post Office Work- ers’ Conference in Eastbourne. “We should dominate, or at least be fifty- fifty.” TORONTO—Dr. J. W. Gillon, at the closing meeting of the third an- nual conference of the Fundamentalist Baptist Young People’s Association of Ontario and Quebec said: “No man or woman is fit to be a church member who goes to the mo- vies, and every preacher who goes ought to be turned out of his church. “The picture house lays its hand on the unborn babe and never lets loose till it kicks it into hell. “T read the other day that every child whose progenitors have attended movies for two generations will be born blind and an idiot.” LONDON—Mrs. Lohn Purdy wants a separation from “the laziest man on earth.” She said: “He is so lazy that once he was too tired to take off his old trousers when I bought him a new pair. He just put the new ones on over the old, and walked about like that.” comicbooks.com