Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-31
FLASHES OF LIFE
(By The Associated Press)

New York-A century note will
hardly be enough for young ladys
boy friend in this town tomorrow
night if he would celebrate a la mode.
Agencies are asking as high as $500
for a ticket to leading shows. Cover
charges in Roger Kahn's night club
are $50 each and Of course the up
keep of a party far exceeds the IN
itial outlay. For instance ginger ale
will be IS bottle.
Paris-One up-to- date cupid's dart
is a champagne bottle. Captain Al
lain Lemerdy of the French Army
was struck by a bottle in a cafe by
Lawrence Vail, American dramatist.
During the subsequent prosecution
the captain met Clothildo Vail. sis
ter of the dramatist, and now they
are to be married.
New York-Anybody who sees a
picture of Ezra Meeller, Sc, and John
R. Noorhis, 81, toasting each other
with some dark liquid in wine glasses
should not be deceived. 1t was only
coffee. The pioneer of the Oregon
trail and the grand sachem of Tam
many were snapped at a luncheon
was explained that Mr.. Meeker
doesn't drink. never has, and hasn't
smoked for half a century.
London--Skyscrape in New York
remind Sir Alfred Mond of the dwell
ings of cavemen, but he hopes the
day will never come when his friends
in Wall street wear bearskins and
drag their stenographers by the hair.
New York-Angus Daniel McDon-
aid. new resident of the Southern
Pacific, expects that he will be kept
real busy catching up with the mar
velous development of country
where ones days dreams are the
next days miracles. and the third
days commonplace" West and
Southwest.
Cambridge. Mass.-Talk about the
records of modern athletes, Why in
ancient Greece they used to pole vault
over bounding leopards and turn
handsprings over charging lions.
Paintings of such feats found at
Corinth have been described to the
Archaeological Institute of America,
by Prof T. Leslie Shear of Princeton.
New York-The deaf may now
'see sound" An invention called the
Osiso records sound vibrations pho
Geographically. To use the device the
deaf must first learn to recognize the
picture of each sound.
San Francisco-Ali aboard for
Chico. Calf, girls, DR.. Walter j.
Swingle of the Department of AgIi-
culture. has brought a giant straw
berry from China which beauties
the complexion and reduces the
weight. 1t is three times as big as
then alive brand and grows on a
tree The doctor is planning to de-
ve1op the plant at Chico.
Richmond, Va.-Having earned $3.50
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has given it
away. Taught by a woman in q
confederate home how to knit g
counterpart for the presidential bed,
Mrs. Coolidge wrote out directions
for the work and sold them. She
turned over the receipts to the home.
Los Angeles-Mrs. Elnora E. Nc
Bride is seeking 100000 from James
Duncan Mcbride, whom she married
once on the ground that he refused
to keep a promise to marry her again.
She AYERS he gave her 100000 for
the expenses of her second wedding.
Falls City, Neb.-Hatpins have
gone out of style in girls basketball
games. Because of their use rela-
tons between Falls City and Hum
boldt were broken but the Chamber
of Commerce made the wieloers re-
form and competition hereafter will
be on a Yale-Princeton instead of a
Harvard Princeton basis.
Washington-The nutritive value