The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-07


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" Another thing
We'd like to know
Is this:
"a Why it is
Then you gotta
IA Crick in your back
Nearly every blooming thing
" 1--WE simply gotta have
Is something you have
To make long reach for?
Macon Telegraph.
Pa says that x
He went to speakin' 'tother night,
An they was so many candidates
He got all mixed up;
And sister says that
With SIGH a job lot she should
Think so.
But ma says that
The man what can't go to
A speakin' like that
An pick out somebody worth votin'
For is all eat up
With they own
Importance.
Have you screened yet?
Amos Is about to send in his little
bill.
mans best stock in trade is his
own grit and gumption.
Let's cleanup now and then later
we may not have to clean-out.
Verify, my brethren, the making of
mirth is merry job,-not.
That was bum boom the bombing
squads put over on May Day.
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1t is time for the Swat the Fly dope,
so swat him.
When little Iceland joins the league
of nations will there be freeze out?
Very few ex-service men are look
ing for jobs in the South, according to
official reports.
Cooperation without representation
can hardly BE expected, even of the
best inteationed.
Pensacola's White Way Is the pref
tiest in the state. when kept at it's best,
but at it's worst it is not very good
advertisement of Pensacola prosperity.
The Times Union is writing about
the pond lilies gracing the wayside
pools and the stately magnolias with
their flowers of purest white against
the Ivid green OF glossy leaves. Sounds
almost as good as blank verse.
Here we have been in the habit of
thinking of all Cinnamon as pigtailed
1aundrymen, and now we hear of six
hundred Chinese merchants meeting in
New York and not a pigtail between
'em.
Orlando Reporter Star, evidently in
tending to demonstrate the growth of
that section and the demand for homes,
recently told of a serious accident that
occurred when two homeless families
tried to get first to a house that was
understood to be for rent" The
automobiles collided and great was the
trouble that followed.
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Gainesville Sun has come out for Nc
Adoo and the heretofore silent Florida
press will take it's place in the chorus
that is singing out of tune but with
considerable energy, the praises of
multitude of candidates.-Times- Union.
No danger of the T.-U. joining in any
song of praise.
The paragrapher Of the Orlando
Sentinel finding time hanging heavy
on his hands dug up this odd series
of fourteen words, each word contain
tanning all the letters plus one of the
preceding word-a, at, pat, part, pirate,
repeat, operate. perorate. procreate, de-
precator deprecatory depreciatory, de-
precatorily, depreciatorilly.
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California raisin growers, who got
$40,000,000 for their crop this year won
der why they We're ever so foolish as to
fight prohibition. And this is the usual
conclusion arrived at by the misguided
folks who thought that prohibition
would "kill business" The liouorites
used to have numbers of supposedly
intelligent people thinking that without
the liquor traffic decent business en-
terprises would go to ruin.-Miami Me-
tropolis. 1t may be the fact that
former Pensacola newspaper man. r.
III. Thomas, handles the publicity for
the raisin growers, also has something
to do with this success.
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MATHEMATICAL MATRiMONY.
We note with interest the following
statistics concerning the recent Van