The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-19
The OnLOOker

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 From slave-boy to Premier is cer- eainly some som climb u9I up the the iaader Ter or .hasf1i, successor of Hara the assassin ated Premier of Japan. He was purchased, when rescued by a prince of his imperial realm and his llnow1- edge of our language and business was quickly made use of by his countrymen.
 The Fisk singers. coming here next week at the church are among the most noted in the country. Since 1871 these negro so1oists have been travelling throughout the country and Europe, giving tc the world a keener dies.
 The sameness of American music, or what we know as Am ner-tcain music melodies The real old jubilees which novelistS always delight in bringing into southern stories are kept in their original sonorous, resonant and melo | dious purity by the Jubilee soloists from Fisk University Communicated to the onlooker: At Waterloo.
 
 Were awfully awfully blue. Sure, they didn't know what to do At-water-loo! At Waterloo. Brsdgeport and it's '1 Grand Old Plaza Gave ahe G. O. P. the razzle dazzle! Why has Bridgeport the biggest tax of all?
 Too much City Hall-too much City Why has Bridgeport the biggest debt Too much City Hall-too much City l Hauli
 Some of our readers are waxing 1 poetic, not so bady written either, do you think? The onIooker welcomes all legitimate and honorable core l spondence from Its readers, and will publish the lines he thinks will be as interesting to others as they have been to him.
 The last soldier kilIed in aoion in the Great War is claimed to be Thomas J. Walpole, Jr., a New Ha- ven man. Armistice Day morning he was killed in an outpost engagement, | as a member of the 9th regiment of make a canvass of the country to find out exactly who the last man really was, and he will be honored with a monument from the French govern I t.. last man killed was? Get in touch with your Legion commander if you do.
 'I intend. please God,' says Mayor Hylan, "to serve my full term of four years He does this a. mark of gratitude to @ devoted people; and ds turning down all hints and offers of the governorship of the state. Ina is the proper spirit, MT. Hylan. |
 Another letter to the onlooker brings the following That's ats two foI T Old Plaza is the title and I liked it, so I want to let you have laugh too
 To our grand old Plaza
 Jaunty King of Bridgeport
 Tax Paying good old sport.
 The good old ship of state
 Is crowded fore and aft. Is now quite out of date.
 While the modern Graft Some craft, some craft, some craft! Grand Street Bridge is calling Some Plaza! Some Plaza!
 God save us from the wreck |.
 The contributor signs himself. yours truly, B Heck. That's a fine name no doubt, and I like his playing witt words, especially the Jaunty King. cannot vouch for the poetry, but think he might be admitted to Amy Lowe1ls vers fibre school in Brook line, just the same.
 Foch's ability as a wit, displayed yesterday in New York to his host puts him in a position not general, occupied by our foreign guests. Amer ness of intellect, especially in matter of the lighter vein appreciate the fac more fully, when men from othe shores fall in line with our natura ! humor. A municipal benefit for the new ad ministratton would be to place mirror on the posts where street lights ar I could more easily adjust their make l up. The windows of stores wouldn , stand show then.
 l Why is it, the poets and wags alway find fertile fields for the expression c 3 their ingenious lines after e1eetior
 when thousand votes might be wo before election by someone's sagacfou = and whimsical thoughts p1acarded an
 bulletined? Twas ever thus.
 Eggs and turkey says Secretary Da wis of the Labor Department, may g I sky high, and just before ThanlsgiI u ing, that certainly IS pretty tough o the housewives planning for a bi
 day.
 In the family of Isaac Devons 1
 Kansas City, the right honorabl
 Stork left behind him one Isaac tr
 nior, five new terrier pups six ne'
 Belgian hares, one promising calf ain | three maltese kittens-all in one da ~ that all took place, too Looks lik , the record delivery in Kansas City. The movies get blamed again-tw q 14 year old boys in Fall River al
 tempted to stage a train wreck. sin U liar to the dne they had just seen f the movies and were caught tampel u ing with switches on a trunk lin 5. The vivid cinema, of course, is tf
 excuse.
 n Now that women vote, the wor o will not go-in just the same way. s will go on somewhat differently. TT
 Otn1ooker is reminded of this axior n by what he saw and heard amor 1 Inc Of thn Nafinna1 IL xaa