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...horseplay. Speaker Longworth, in a farewell speech-from-the-throne, recognized that it might be his last term as presiding officer. The Marine Band Orchestra was led by Representative La Guardia of New York. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida sang "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag" as she used to sing it in War canteens. The Speaker played on the piano while Virginia's Woodrum sang "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny." It was all very merry, the most noisy and exciting closing in years...
...Watson's Bay, Australia, one Charles Messenger caught a shark, slit its belly, found a lady's hand bag containing a wrist watch. Inscription on the wrist watch: "Yours till death. Bill...
...walked on stage leading a dog with a BLIND sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations escaped in English: "Sure!", "Sonny Boy!", "Whoopee...
...Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version of that affecting ballad, "Father, Dear Father Come Home with Me Now"; the verisimilitudinous fable of the aleful mother who staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child dead, signed the pledge. And this, from 10,000 Temperance Anecdotes, justly entitled "A Curious Performance": "I once heard of a man who went to a tavern...
...Badly out of the bag, however, were 186 Commercial Tribune employes, thrown out of work virtually without warning. The boxed announcement of the sale appeared in their paper directly under a page-wide headline reading $150,000,000 ASKED FOR AID OF UNEMPLOYED...