The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-05-24
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Uneasy rests the head that wears
the underworld crown in Superior.
These certainly are distressing
days for Superior's underworld folk.
The jungles of Michigan street still
shelter some very fierce Food Hogs.
Pittsburgh Plus may not be buried
but it certainly seems to be quite
dead.
st. Louis county evidently has a
states attorney who is either lost,
strayed or stolen.
When it came to fielding that fly
salary boost, Charley Calligan did
not muff the ball.
The revised state game laws pro-
vide no protection for suckers that
bite at wildcat oil stocks.
Instead of the county attorneys
office being in funk, a Funck is in
the county attorneys office.
Duluth is large enough and ele-
waited enough to support clean theat-
rical plays in clean play-houses.
Thought of the Nonpartisan
League now keeps many a timid old
reactionary awake nights.
When it comes to hunting outlaws,
the season never closes with Mayor
Baxter, over there in Bingoland.
Judge Gilpin is an excellent ex-
ample of a seeker for higher salary
who says nothing and saws wood.
Germany once had her Robber
Barons of the Rhine and Minnesota
now has her Baron Robbers Of the
Pine.
The school board election in July
promises to be the next event that
will add materially to the gaiety of
nations.
An expert from Cloverland has
hooked up with the Commercial Club.
The city already has experts from
Bingoland.
Putting the acquisition of political
office ahead of political principle
is considered retrograde movement
to say the least.
The expenses of the county road
department are not so heavy as the
German war debt but time may even
them up somewhat.
Who was William Shakespeare,
anyway? So far as Duluth theaters
are concerned, the rising generation
has no means of finding out.
Detective McDonald's watchful
waiting in Superior's federal build
ing failed to save the bacon OF a
big bunch of underworld boys.
Duluth has circles within circles
that are more puzzling and 1mpene-
trable than the famous mazes OF old
England in Queen Elizabeth's time.
City milk inspector Hedman re-
ports that Duluth is getting the best
milk in it's history. Why not? 1t
costs more than it ever did before.
A prominent official Of the D. &
l.. R. swats the frightful H. c. l.. by
buying his family meats in Two Har-
bors. There are tricks in all trades.
If any of Duluth's mentally inbred
citizens do not like some OF the stor-
les printed in the Rip-saw, let them
buck in and help clean up the town.
Before supt. HoAe slips away from
Duluth, he might proftably take
few special lessons from Supt. Young
in the art of copious expectoratlon.
Lieutenant Luxon is reported to
feel that Capt. Ross made him VIC
tim of misplaced confidence. THESE
GIengarry Scots are canny fellows.
The man with an automobile en-
tirely too often forgets that there
are other people in the city or that
the pedestrians have prior right to
the streets.
There are men in Duluth who not
only want two pieces of political pie
at a time, but they persist In shov-
cling it into their capacious maWs
with a knife.
When the present five city COM
missioners are relegated to the scrap
heap by their constituents, they may
be able to qualify as experts on mu-
nicipal ferry boats.
Little Tammany is credited with
a belief that a shake of the plum
tree will land the postmastership in