1923-10-27 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 199

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Ms Ruth B Offergel

het LeBolina

Mrs. Ruth B. Offergelt, of wife Edward A. Offergelt, is being sued for a divorce. Exhibit A in the case is a letter alleged to have been writton to Dr. John T. Bolin by Mrs. Offergelt, in which she wrote: "If Junior only looks like you, so I can put him in your arms and say, 'Dear One. here is our son, yours and mine,' would that make you happy?" Offergelt has filed suit against Dr. Bolin for $10,000, alleg- ing alienation of affections.

The United States Navy made a determined bid for the Schneider Cup, pffered as a prize for the fastest seaplanes in the American and British navies. The races were flown off Cowes, England, on Sep-

tember 28,

Dr. Edgard Goodspeed .:

Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed, has rewritten the New Testament in modern vernacular, casting aside out-of-date language that was used in the St. James version and doing away with the complicated writing of the early scholars. In this version characters speak like every-day modern Women buy pounds of things with dollars and cents, Children start life by being born instead of being "begat." The work

has created much comment,

Henri Rossi mm.

Henri Rossi, a 13-year-old Pro- vidence (R. L.) youth, shot down his little playmate, "Mickey"

Kurgio, aged 9, and then dragged

his body into a swamp, where he buried it. It was not found for several days. The boys quarrelled Chicago's over a lost fishing pole.

motorists.

Mrs. Elizabeth Stark was fined $30 and sentenced to spend five days in jail, for speeding her car while intoxicated. This is the first woman to receive a jail sentence in

war un reckless

Viscount Yasuya Uchida, Minis- appointed Premier of Japan ad in- ter of Foreign Affairs, has been

terim, following the death of Pre- mier Admiral Barón Kato, and will servo until a new Cabinet has been formed. He was Ambassa dor to the United States in 1909.

rd Fozemans

Hubbard

While crossing a field near Spring Like; N. J, Richard Foren in and Caleb Hubbard, 18; Willie Habbard, 14. Cileb's brother, and Charles Spindler, 11, began playing "Indians." Richard Forenian an Caleb Hubbard tied the other boys to trees and set fire to the excelsior around them, not realizing that the grou id was saturated with oil from a neighbouring gas works. Before they could beat out the fia nes the -two-boys were burned to death.

General Pershing T

HMS

Because of his illness in Alantic

Mis Mabel Carsos

Miss Mabel Carson, of Baltimore

City, John L. Lewis, International Md., motorist and aviatrix, self-re- President of the United Mine liant modern girl, was taken to Workers, was unable to attend the Traffic Court in her home city be last-minute conference in Harris-

cause she blocked traffic by stop- burg, Pa., called by Governor Gif-

Spying Private Jonn Coolidge in the front rank during his in- The British aircraft carrier "Hermes" has left Plymouth, England, under command of Captain the ford Pinchot, at the request of ping her car and "bawling out" a spection of the Citizens Military Training Comps at Camp Devens Hon. A. Stopford, for Portsmouth, for her trial tests. The "Hermes" is the peate time "hush ship" of the President Coolidge, in an effort to man who had been annoying her. Mass., General John J. Pershing stopped and asked the President's eldest son how he liked soldiering. Standing rigidly at attention, British Navy, and little is known of its construction. It is known to possess a speed of 25 knots. She is avert a strike in the anthracite coal She told the Court she was able to young Coolidge told him he was satisfied with army life. The General fitted with two hangars capable of carrying 20 seaplanes, electric cranes being provided to hoist them to Phillip Murray, International Vice take care of herself and wouldn't

Belds. He was represented by was high in his praise of the soldierly qualities of the son of the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy.

Do you experience difficul-

ty when reading at night?—

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a pleasure, not an infliction.

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WAS JUST THINKING OF THE DAY WE WERE MARRIED

the flying-deck.

BRINGING

I WISH I

I WAS SO NERVOUS

HADN'T THOUGHT

OF IT.

I GUESS YOU THOUGHT I WUZ GONNA

GIT AWAY-

UP

FATHER

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE FIRST MET?.

President.

YEP- YOU WUZ COMIN

OUT OF A LAUNDRY ON A FRIDAY-THE THIRTEEN ÅN'T WALKED UNDER A LADDER TO

SPEAK TO YOU-

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be bluffed.

CONTROL YOUR SELF- MAGGIE: