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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, January 08, 1912, Image 6

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fashioned that he don't even get
.a new watch. But the folks here
are all for Uncle Joe, you know."
"Why?" asked the La Follette
man.
"Well, he's got us a fine sol
diers' home and two new post
offices," said the Danville man.
"But, of course,-he hasn't got
the influence now that he used to
have." '
That last sentence explains
why La Follette came to Danville.
IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
(The J. O. B. Sympathizes with
John the Barber.)
n. y., satterdy poor old John
the barber
pritty soon he will have more
nicks, in him than one of his own
razers if he dont look out
John the barber has his shop in
"45 st, his real name is John rise
ler, but he put sine over his
shop John the barber, when he
opened up several yeres ago, so
everybody calls him that
most all the ackters in n. y. gets
shaved at John the barber's and
sum prize fiters and all kinds of
sporty gents, that little old shop
of John's has bin just a little bet
ter than a gold mine ever sinse
John had it
John he dont spend all his
dough neither, the old sockets
a piece evry week, and it piles up
quite fast
cuppel of yeres ago sumbody
that had herd about John's wad
c lipped him an earful of slush
about wot a fine thing it was to be
a theatrickel manidger, with a
show out cleainin up a lot of
munny on the rode, and the fel
ler that owned it hobnobbin with
charley froYnan and jake sHubert
and having swell ackterine chas-'
ing to him after jobs y
so John the barber he fell fori
the game, he put a cuppel of thou
send into a thing that a feller said
was a show, and sent it out on its;
travels
it dident travel far, all the ack
ters got back to n. -y., sum beinv
late because the walkip-was bad,
but John's dough, it never came
back
so then John he got sore on the
drammer, and he begun investin
his suhplus in jools for hisself and
mrs riseler
amung uther beautiful orna
mints he bot his dame a rope of
dimunds, gee but it 'was a swell
rope all rite, cost 3 thousend
plunks
few nites ago John and mrs. r.
was dinin into a swell chinees re,s
terent when a blond lady, very
handsum and swell drest, rushed
up to mrs. r. and trun her arms
around herneck, and wished her a
happy new yere
mrs riseler wjsht her the same,
altho she dident know her from a
3 base hit, and a minnit later John
the barber gives a look at his
wife's coller bone, and he hollers
grate hevins, the dimunds is gone
he is a sore guy, he ses he knows
if he put his coin in a bank the
bank would bust, he thinks he will
carry it in his shoe after this
johny, -

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