Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-09

whats the name Of the SookT'
The Undytng Fire"
who wrote TT"
III @. Wells"
American
Nope. Engiishman."
"oh, suppose It's all right to be lit up
over there He'd get in bad II he lived IN this
country, wouldn't hef"
One OF the prohibition leaders declares
Samuel Gompers Is in the pay of the liquor
interests. The American people will not be-
lieve that charge. Gompers has been under
the searchlight for more than forty years and
he hasn't yet been detected in any shady trans
| action. He is big honest citizen. His works
are the proof II he had been susceptible to
bribery he would have fallen long before now.
The Associated Press tells Of stormy
talk visitors had with Bill Hohenzollern at
Amerongen Sunday. Can you imagine any
mere German talking stormily to his highness
few years aso7 The attempt would have
brought out the firing squad. Verify, Bill will
eat out OF your hand these days.
The battle Of Waterloo lasted exactly eight
hours. The fighters must have been union
men.
at is easy to open a savings account" ad-
vertises Chicago concern. 1t is also easy to
open . pot, but winning it-ah, there's the rub!
Women who have been reducing-that is,
some Of them who have bungied the Job
won't be keen for getting in the seashore
bathing pictures this summer.
The Federal Distributing company OF San
Antonio advertises army tents that won't last
long" Another proof of growing frankness
in business.
When a swain asks a charmer to dy with
him these days his offer may be accepted
literally.
Chicago detectives arrested IS men playing
cards on the third floor Of a business block.
The newspaper report referred to the discovery
as an accident Most people will accept that
version as truthful.
If the TOLEDO fight is on the level and pub
lie sentiment has anything to do with deter
mining the outcome. the victory is Wizards.
He is printed in the papers with his arms
around three healthy looking children. with
the family pet deer looking on. The best that
Dempsey has to offer is that he has been mar
ried. leaving the inference his wife has d.
vorced him.
Miss Sfgfried Nordstrom. who got lot of
notoriety by being the first bather to break
the ice in Lake Michigan. at Chicago, last
New Years is to marry Samuel F. Williams
in New York. 1t is fair to assume that Will
lams was the ice breaker on this latter
occasion.
1t would be interesting to learn the
thoughts of the dog that used to accompany
old days when the butcher slipped Towser a
bone.
A recently launched Chicago labor weekly
is losing $1,000 per issue. 1t hasn't the back
ing of union labor OF the city. The day when
you can go out and use lead pipe to keep
paper above water, happily, is rapidly passing.
The public is beginning to appreciate that
newspaper is q business institution.
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company has been formed in st. Louis
to promote weekend air trips to Europe.
That's once where the Missouri metropolis put
it over on its hated rival, Chicago.
The Germans know they have to do 1t, but
they simply can't swallow the idea of bending
the remainder OF the world.
If Grifith persists in calling his latest pic
ture greater than his greatest he's sure to
it. He might try offering something Just as
good.
Mrs. Alva Willing Aston has become the
bride OF Lord Riddlesdale of England. - The
public got its first knowledge of the event
through the publication OF paid announce
ment in the London Times. No scandal at
taching to either end of the sketch, they will
have to be content with the bare announce
ment of the marriage. The newspapers are
too much occupied with big affairs to devote
space as they did in the past to international
matches
Chicago clothing manufacturer has be
gun delivering goods by aeFoplane to custom
ers in a radius of 200 miles II you find a suit
of clothes in your yard some morning don't
be shocked 1t may have fallen of the pile
while enroute
JM.C