A Document That Has Come Into Our Possession
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My ValeNTINE o o A-U-K HE ROSE IS RED, THE VIOLET'S BLUE, WE'D LIKE TO SLIT 10 YOUR THROATS FOR YOU. O O o Wishing You Merry XXmas July 4th 1874 A 1 The Valentine of the Mah Jongg Manufacturers to the Publishers of Cross Word Puzzle Books AN EDITORIAL on the German reparations debt and in addition put a mirror into the men's wash-room at 116th Street, TE have arrived at a solution of the transit prob- For the second thing, it will instantly do away with the terrible congestion now in full swing on the sub- delight the public and the transit companies' stock- way and elevated lines. Twenty cents will be too holders. The only two people likely to be displeased much for people to pay and they will have to walk. are Cecil B. DeMille, because it has no love interest, (Even many of those who can afford to pay will he and Mayor John F. Hylan, because he didn't have a so irritated by the necessity of dropping four or more hand in framing the idea, but that will be all right, -nickels in the slot that they will prefer to walk or too. You can't please everybody. skate.) Well, sir, it's a twenty-cent fare. And with everyone walking, we will soon have a For one thing, looking at it from the companies' race of real robust men and women. angle, it will increase receipts four-fold. This will A TWENTY-CENT FARE--AND DAMNED BE HE WHO enable the companies to pay a six per cent, dividend FIRST CRIES ENOUGH.--The Eskimo Digitized by Google