Life — July 19, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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OMAHA—Talking pictures of wed- ding ceremonies are advocated by Dis- trict Judge Herbert Rhoades of the court of domestic relations as an anti- dote for domestic strife. Or an anti- dote of marriage. BOSTON, Mass.—A sealed quart bottle of whiskey was found in the stomach of a seven-pound cod caught in West Penobscot Bay. And it was that long. WESTPORT, Conn.—If Joseph Gisoni of Jersey City had been carry- ing twenty bottles of cognac instead of twelve when he was arrested here, he would have been fined $50 under the State liquor law and re- leased. But because the State does not recognize any amount of liquor under five gallons, he was bound over to the Federal authorities for violation of the Jones law and faces five years in prison and a ten thousand dollar fine. BURLINGTON, Vt.—Rev. Joseph Gillis has had posted on each of the six entrances to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, signs prohib- iting women from entering who wear low-neck or short-sleeve dresses. Ye who are light laden. NEW YORK—According to Dr. Wallace B. House of Flower Hos- pital, specialist in neurology, the vital- ity of visitors to this city is depleted 20 per cent by noise. “New Yorkers become more or less immune,” he says, “but in the stranger the unusual clamor increases or decreases respira- tion, creates muscle tension, and some- times heart changes.” And the other 80 per cent by ticket scalpers. CHICAGO—Alfred S. Austrian, a prominent attorney, admits that he paid $10,000 to a professional golfer to teach him to play under e‘thty to win a $5.00 bet from a friend. SAN FRANCISCO—After two years as Federal prohibition admin- istrator for Northern California, E. R. Bohner, has resigned saying “I have no desire to be identified again with the Prohibition Department. It is a position of grief.” CHICAGO—Mrs. Anna _ Scarlog, suing for divorce, claimed that her hus- band concealed real estate assets. He insisted that he had written her of his ownership of five bungalows, She thereupon admitted she had thought a bungalow was a kind of a dog. BOURBON, Ind.—This is the first town in the United States, so far as is known, to memorialize water with a statue of “the old town pump.” Former Bourbon residents carried out the plan. NEW YORK—A specially con- structed sewer for the disposal of seized rum is a feature of the new prohibition headquarters at No. 641 Washington Street, occupied by Major Maurice Campbell and his agents. CHICAGO—According to Magis- trate Alexander Brough of the do- mestic relations court, women are mercenary, extravagant, cold-blooded, crafty and totally lacking in moral sense. Liars too, “They dress to look seedy when they come into court for increased alimony,” he said. WASHINGTON—No once has ever been irreverent enough to pry into their contents, but it is a fact that all nine Justices of the Supreme Court bring their lunches from home, some in special lunch-boxes, some in shoe- boxes, and one in a tin box. CHICAGO—Hurrying for a train, Ben Halsted of Danville, asked a cop the way to the station. Following di- rections, Halsted ran into the Engle- wood Police Station, elbowed past the guard, yelling that he couldn't wait for a ticket, and found himself in a block of cells. Life Abroad CARLISLE, Eng—Miss Isabella Starkie became engaged to Jacob Glaister when she was twenty-two and stayed that way for nineteen years. Now she is forty-one and thinks the engagement long enough. She went to court and collected $1,750. She said her fiancé often came to her home and just sat and read. PARIS—A large Paris couturier now has a suitable dog to sell with each costume. Chows for smart street dress, terriers with tailleurs, pekingese with evening dress, bull dogs with tweed, and schnauzers for sport. The dachshund goes with long dipping skirt lines, And a Mexican Hairless for beach wear? LONDON—Every murder commit- ted in London in 1928 was solved and the culprit was convicted or took his own life, the official police report as- serts. Page Grover Whalen. RIO DE JANEIRO—Jose da Silva, small town merchant on a visit here, paid $1,440 cash for a street car, bought from a café acquaintance who claimed to be owner of the trolley lines. Jose jumped aboard his new tram, and watched fares rung up with great pleasure. Only after long argument at the terminus could Jose be con- vinced that his purchase wasn’t his. ROME, Italy—Workers digging in the ruins of Pompeii have come across a set of political slogans painted on the 2,000-year-old walls, that are curiously One of them bore the an- nouncement “Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk.” Another advised the voters “if you want good bread and better games vote for Cleonius Prisus.” modern. MOSCOW—A campaign is being launched here to establish theatres in villages and towns for the showing of motion pictures to lure people from saloons where much vodka is con- sumed. comicbooks.com