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...Talmadge opposition was from the Atlanta Constitution, which is still coasting along on the reputation the late great Henry Grady made for it in the last century. Says Talmadge: "You know the Const'ution is helpin' me by tellin' all them lies. People jest know they ain...
...living on a diet of sardines and crackers and cheese until we elected him to the Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year and immediately he took up his abode in a fine hotel in Washington and he got to eating caviar, cav-eh-ah. It ain't a thing in the world but Russian catfish eggs, and it upset him and disordered him. What is the cure? . . . Take him across our specked and checkered aprons and give him a first class political spanking and presently he will be all right, sitting up and taking his milk...
...Southern girl wrote to President Jefferson Davis: "I want you to let Jeems C. of Company Oneth, South Carolina Regiment, cum home and git married. Jeems is willin', I is willin', his mammy says she is willin', but Jeems Capn he ain't willin'. Now when we are all willin' 'cep'n Jeems Capn, I think you might let up and let Jeems come home. I'll make him go straight back when hes done got married and fight just as hard as ever." Davis countersigned the letter, "Let Jeems...
...Press does not live in Santa Monica. His home is in a section of the beach frontage known as O'Sheenie Park. And it just ain't kosher for Mr. Press to speak with authority of Santa Monica's bottles, fog or movie stars...
...year-old Cartoonist Gene Ahern, a onetime butcher boy, began his career in 1914 at N. E. A.'s Chicago office where he inked in comic drawings for $18 a week. Soon he conceived a comic of his own, called it "Auto Otto," followed it with "Squirrel Food," "Ain't Nature Wonderful," "Crazy Quilt." In 1921 N. E. A.'s General Manager Frank Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After a few months...