The Washington times., 1919-03-20

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Get on that step or I'll shoot you
full of holes.
Some copper
/ Busy Day. -
anyhow, yesterday was more orless
ora busy day. In the usual order OF
things 1. receive on an average about
two hundred letters day, in which
/ am requested TO visit all sections
of the city. 'Tother day a note
reached me from a little lady living
somewhere around Seventh and Flor
ida avenue, asking me to come out
there and give the natives Of that
particular section a chanve 20 get in
on this Easy Money-and did.
Captain Zepp, the Washington
Times circulatOr. tipped Izzy Breg-
man on to.the fact that L was about
to make my appearance In Harlem.
"Izzy" surrounded himself with his
bI other Aaron, and when struck the
front seat of their Gag there seemed
tn be only one ambition IN 1ife-and
that was to upset all speed 'regdlA-'
tions-I don't wonder why these
Washington coppers are beginning, to
get mussed up over me- s
Anyhow know We left The Wash
back at 1:I5. during which + paid
my respects to the following enter
prising Easy Money. settlers "over
There" 80.
c. w. Lyons has a dandy little
cigar and news. store At 704 Flofida
avenue. Old Doc SLyous was rig4at. on
the job WHEN Is slipped HAM bill
AOsOSS425A fh psyment for = COPY
OsYogus. Af4FifhE Lyons: next time
trail around 35Sour nelghborhood
wake up and Aoid on to the bill I
hand you. 55
Into the Cash Register.
Doc Harper has drug store at
Seventh and Florida avenue. He was
busy liking up prescription when i
entered his shop and asked the little
lady wearing a white MILDLY coat TO
hand me a package OF talcum powder.
All right, Doc-look your till over to-
day and see IL you can discover bill
A 02s57O55 A-tbe little girl just
chucked it in the cash register-likS
that
Over at Doc Butchers drug store
at Fifth and Florida avenue, a little
girl wearing a black suit and white
apron, was good enough to fuss all
around the show case in an effort
tc dig up some Colgate. shaving
dIsturbed-but seemed happy when I
declared that PaImoIlve cream was
"just as good" q.
I left bill b 7OoSI22 A with this
little girlAhope she still has it.
Then a quick flying, leap in Izzy
RCegman's car over to Fourth and
Fin where DoclDouEias busted him
self for ten minutes trying to locate
a Preferencia cigar. He couldn't do
il and admitted-he never smoked in
his life. but declared he knew 'sure
enough" that the cigar he Offered was
one of the best in town-and Doc
knows, all right, because it was a
good cigar.
Anyhow I left Doc Douglas bill!
. IO45205e A, and, while the ice cream
man was bothering. him a bit, hope
he. still has it. Next time 1 happen
around, Doc. cheer up.
This "Izzy" person is some busy
IZzy. From Doc Douglas shop he |
shot me over to Sherman avenue and |
Barry place, where / found G.. w. |
Steele, taking things easy I'm his gro. |
Gerry shop. He bobbed up all right |
when I asked him for sardines-
wanted to know whether ! wanted /
'em in oil or in mustard-soId me 4 |
can of oiled sardines. accepted bill, |
A 05O1453S 4, showed it in the cash /
drawer. invited me to call again.
and there you arc.
At the news shop 1920 u street. ]
bumped in long enough to buy copy
Of Ladies' Home Journal, and heard
the "boss" give an exhortation on
the pleasing possibilities OF Major
Walter Lovins. whom he declared had
just passed, like Douglas Fairbanks
I'D the street
He has bill b 17487G27 A, and hope
he has il yet.
G. p. Cunningham has a news store
at 1902 u street. and when 7 entered
there l found a sailor smoking a
pipe, the BOSS is back OF the counter
he was good enough to sell me a
copy of Everybody's Magazine. for
which rendered him bill A 75616ISS A.
+ suppose Cunningham still has that
little magic dollar hope he has. be-
cause he looks like an honest sort of
soul. and 7 would like him to come
10 The Times and cash it for. a |
'fiVer."
Money in n Freight Yard.
Over at the B. & o. freight yard.
along about noon, bumped into John
J.. Mathews, general foreman OF the
yards, whom discovered was a regu-
lar busy sort of person. but not too
busy to change me bill A oS62oO64 A.
| hope Jack still has that bill. because
II he really casheR Il in at the office
Of The Washington Times there may
be some chance Cf him making good
that trip TO Baltimore.
Over at Servants last evening, while
at dinner, called the headwsiter
over and. while pretending to criti-