The day book. [volume], September 09, 1912, Image 16

About The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917

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STORY BY JOHNY.
n. y., sept 9, lots of kids sees
"their old mac start out with his
dinger buckit in the morning, and
they says, gee, i wlsht my pa was
ritch
they think it would be pretty
swell if the old man had a couple
of 'milyen dollers and they couU
ride in a automobeel and have ice
cream for dinner every day
then they woujdent never have
to go to work theirselyes, nd
they would have a nice long hap
py life
that's what they think
some of them kids better take
a look at what hapened to irving
w childs, and then have anuther
think
.his pa got ritch out of tin roofs,
and when he died he left sevral
milyen dollers
irving was just a yung kid then,
but he got a big alowance, and he
begun to find out what a yung
man could do with a bunch of
money along brpadway
by the time he was 21 he was
hitting up a pretty good clip
doners a
then he begun to draw 100,000 them
dollers a year from the estate, and
from that time on he dident touch
nothing only the high spots
' one reckless thing he done was
to get married, but it dident take
in about a year his wife sued
for a divorce, because "her hus
band's chorus gerl frends took up
so mutch of his time that he did
ent have none left for her
she got 700 dollers a month
allimoney, and irving went on his
merry way in the white lite, dis
trict .
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just for fun he got hisself apr
pointed a deputy sheriff
he had a diamond studdejl
badge made that cost 5000 dof
lers, and he ust to pay fellers 100
throw to let mm arrest
when he was 25 he got 700,006
doljers in one chunk -5?
that was just a year ago, andj
tody ' they are burying him
a ritch father is about thif
worst missfortune most fellers
can have, is the way it strikes rat.
johny
0 p 1 .
Blobbs Hardijppe says He
owes everything-tp his wife.
Slobbs Harduppe is a dQuble
distilled prevaricator, tie ow
five dollars to me. - v "j
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