| Show THE SALT LAKE TL TRUNK SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 6 1931 SOME THINGS' A MAIL BAG CAN HOLD Odd Answers BELIEVE I OR NOT-B- Robert L Ripley A Bunch r of Letters j y -- V" SSI By o o McIntyre CROM THE MAIL BAG: "I have been working on i new type of newspaper column fof two years Can you tell me how to get It pubA lished?”Jr Pueblo Colo No trouble lished trick to get It it iwfe-- it m "Wasn't It Paul Bourget who had printed on his letter head: T1 faut vlvre comme on pense slnon tot' eu tard on flnit par penser comme on a E T r pub- Getting It read is the vecu’?’’— Miss eepsie N Y r t ttt X 7 X 1 V 3 p V‘ I irdi )i U-r-f ’SSL f it e — -- AI t V J2rSMi& Poughk- J T j —r- 1 ' I wouldn’t know about that But thanks for the compl- mJ it ft iment t "For many years I promised myself a visit to New York This summer at the age of 60 I saw It for the first time And It is the only event to which I ever looked forward that did not prove a disappointment I found the 5 YiV $ ill m rv city wonderful everybody polite and the ladles remarkably beautiful"— Colonel V T "Why Is It that when ordinary people are Involved In accidents or disaster it becomes straightaway news without embellishment In newspapers But when people of the stage cinema or radio figure In the same Incidents the headlines Invariably make them heroes and heroines? 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BLOCKS CITY 70000000 -- to WORTH OF PROPEDTV Feb u V" y vtV' 904 Vin- ev i sif U -- tivts New Orleans My most profound bow hARSHAtt ON SEVIERVILIE srjj fc -- v I HEIGHTS TENN A 43 h f tv ! i - The Towel That has A Roman been ih active use “You often speak of beauHow Is this tiful addresses one: ‘14 Green Lattice Lane & i o VA 90 YEARS for -- rO’ Cape Coast Castle Africa’?”— No Sig Richmond Ind y i3 owned JN by D<ymple Woveriy O "Some time ago you spoke ef the scandal in floating dubious sugar bonds You don’t know nuthln’ Walt until the public sees how It has been gypped In passing over their defaulted bonds for common stock The whole thing would gag the most abandoned fiI've been nancial buzzard close to the situation as a lowly accountant and am wise” —Just an Accountant Wall wire Bcgan and Ended m 1 WITH A RULER r v if II ‘ m is ‘tr ie 1 last Romulus NAMED 1 Mitt ALlCt I' HUM6ARGER I CANpOLDAN II' official Casket ball ( C CjVtv- street It wouldn’t surprise me Vtv One of the ancient devices of magazine editors to stir up writers late with their stories or articles Is to tell them: "Your name Is already on the cover" The cover of magazines Is the first printed The dodge always works as old as It Is & A O- IN r ihe 6uilT WITH 9 fpi Cathedral of Cologne 2500000 -- MATCHES by higK bW0&ODACh6go - f HANo EACH o Foley Bios chmpionshif teMn Houston Icxa5 CW0 r ‘ t tPSIOZ DOWN Meunber A MODEL OF U' She 6 FT 6 4 in tall 1 f 1 Four doves Suggested hie Doyctajl joimt wood for interlocking 1 o Xlt W' "i ' t i f Tombstone in GARDEN PRAifl it ILL -- HANS mi A A EXPLANATION OF LAST SUNDAY’S CARTOON The passing of Captain Jonas H Platt In the Washington Naval hospital recently was a wrench to New York men of fifteen newspaper I I I t years ago who worked with him on the Evening Mall and other paper "Joe” Platt was a redlieklng Rrooklyn boy rising to great heights when the war came along He enlisted as a marine was twlre cited for badly biavcry In artlon w bunded many times Jumped Into the sea to escape reporters on his return After that those of us who knew him never saw him again Onee he was reported in Tahiti then again In some other faraway place CLEOPATRA— Brother -- shter an war-rinrj- tradiveness apparently immune to tin cepted results of protracted inbreeding rs an ancient Egyptian royal custom breams the rule during the ascendancy of the The ruhr bdny dynasty of the Ptolemies considered asi of divine origin (Son of pa) it was obvious that a royal consort of absolutely r giial bit ill and place could only be found in the dauyhtfr of his fatlur To the oniitnl Egyptian s lion it as not hint obhornnt in Ihtst consaiHuinc marriayts Cleopatra hnsclf being a descendant of s four qt unatians of brother and sist r atntts in la r ptrsonal intellect and red-head- ed Short shavings French women regard mustaches as a touch of beauty and rarely remove them Pompadour had one One of New York's biggest buildings Is $40 000000 in the red Morris Gest has never seen V all street Margaret Mayo was Lillian Slattern George White was onre known to Rmadwav as the Swlfty Soft drink Messenger Roy” on stands Prnadway despite Ihe heat did not do the usual summer business The government ordered an astrologer withdrawn prediction fist T--t- BUILDINGS aorry' darb! swi( but -- NOT A SINGLE PERSON WA5 INJURED cennes being my native town nd I think you will be pleased that your articles on Paris recently are the most realistic t ever read about that beloved city"— Mrs S D s’L A t GRyor CTSrNsg AND RUINED - j It Is regrettable indeed and "I am French bom rr 0 "I went to what was supposed to be a first-clas- s three institution banking years ago to invest $10000 with perfect safety I stressed that It was my all and hard arned and that protection of principal was imperative Today the securities they bought me are worth $458 Two bonds have defaulted and I am told there will never be a chance to regain my losses”— Mrs F 8 Brooklyn N Y - &KH 1l a£r 4m' si-- y f WI about it? Tm rt 'ffl m Georgia Spoken like a true Southern gentleman air do r V Cleopatra married twosf her own bi others Ptolemy XIV was was poisomd CAPT 41 M HU— Captain Ilal at tht Pair-mou- wd afterward kilhd them drowned and Ptolnny YU nt track 1920 slatted four times won four times s I four local tract r voids and non three states On May1 ’a he won the Colinsvillc handicap June Mh In won the mile and st mity yards race June 12 he won the llott Stutter handicap and on June 220 he nosed out first in the Hotel Jefferson handicap ('aptain Hal still holds three trad mar-riaqt- from radio broidiasts after Lindbergh had complained of tire uic of the blrthdate of hla son The astrologer was receiving $i'00 uc-kAdmirers bf Btevervon will errjov Stevenson s Lies h ’ of Paradie" J mine E'oy is Jo bv Alva P Cara-Iher- MiFvnv p g s full Jp Clare Llxildm tr I’m ( j II' mg In (he ohms of niskra Algrrlo rtudvlng Arab ha-- ’ i cm it was there she wrote ‘Tire Substitute Brido " Julius Tunnrn was onre Og-l- n Armours private seme t r Hnbrrt Hoover has a (prli k temner Nev h York alii d A ms In the 1 a a' i Ir vrin dilh n1 Bi ac- h- West" tire Harper prize book bv Rubeit Ray-nnl- d A rurker New Yorker has wugered 4000 rpvlrrt kOO stnik exeliange Ls irau Will a be $0 000 bv 1934 II" ajs times will be biller but investors will buv mlv gov- -i nnirnt eenritres lot live ne t ten vrris wlnn hi tp I nn Boll Rathbone ovr r was bom s JoharUiesbnrg Louth Africa lining tlie Jameson raid Curiosity seekers have driven Bi eta Garbo from her Beverly Hill home fire rumor rersLsU tier t rude lawrrme Is lie send hi Idr of n we ilthv New Yorker Doroths Gislr a ri bf n appr ini' the tV f d r)oi i Count lit lmuseAll Ihe theUut rummer ’ I In records at Fainnouut and in the year 1926 out of 11 sfatts he placed first in eight second in tuo and third in one THE P4RROT TINT CALLEh N)R “MORE W iRGIY'—On Xovcmhrr 7th 1929 t I durine the Watt Strut crash u he n sales on the Stoelx exchange totaled 7llfG0 shares and on the Ciuh 2'Vs010O shares and the of iniestuis and brokers wan "More Muryin" a paired vhich kept crying '‘More margin more muryin” uas picked up by a police metn by-wor- ’it street and Fifth avenue Xeu Eighty-firs- t VoiL d City 1031 right tliiial pupils rapped King Featutfi Swirtirate Iiey-- i cn Baruih Jr Ls a memb the stork exchange Pross Trait ls a lumbt r log ger In the state of Washing ton 'Teai m ks on Tu rnde" Is by Albert fl Cioikef who knew the old Waldorf a (c w He wi knew It die pn ss aio id tm ten jen '(’opjiight PHI Mi N'aucht j ndle He Inc) ney 1 wood Broun a review but new spa pi r friths gem rally It uben king prubi d It if the tdiid w h s don ovv ner s is v o dUoiihig in ruropi I 'otto to It At uvi i lllur'e is altitude and gin is 'hr Ko ne Ai bin k le hi flrrl is lllimr d foi a M ir- rbn k invlrlng of i I Inc) r t |
