Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1939 — Page 14

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PAGE 14 - THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1939 SERIAL STORY— GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty| OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople = OUT OUR WAY By Williams

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| \ SUPPOSE WE THREE ARE JADED OFFICE {1 BY THE SNOOZED A } BECAUSE YOU ¥ Shy | WORKERS! AFTER WE HAVE TOILED ALL 2 INVENTIN' COUPLE OF & BA WORT un A TING BES EVERY- | DAY IN A STUFFY ROOM, ON OUR WAY BUG wax HE HY HOURS A NIGHT Hl TO EATS imi! x REACH IT HOME THE SAVORY SMELL OF STEAMING Yl WAS WORKIN' AA war 1 DON'T ; Ci | SPARERIBS AND KRAUT IS WAFTED TO ON A GET MUCH OUR NOSTRILS FROM THE EXHAUST PIPES {f SUCTION PUMP {f SLEEP EITHER, HARI A ATISRACTERS \ OF A SCORE OF AUTOMOBILES, GOADING JA TO PULL THE J BUT 1 NEVER ARIAS JARKRESs—a woekive wite. |THE 3 i ape 1 1] OUR APPETITES TO FURY! BY JOVE, F\ SEEM TO BE DOLLY HARKNESS — Dan's widowed | JESGHESC . TF SN RE EEA | Z OUTA TH' <&°N ABLE TO fister-in-law. { WR ¥ \ 4 AR > rv ’ | B : BOTTLE, WHEN \ INVENT SALLY BLAKE—an ambitious young | FESS 1 | FY AGAIN AND 5 It THEY CAME - Stenographer. | ABOLISH iE 3 AN' GOT nim! ANEMIA!

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By LOUISE HOLMES

Yesterday: Marian revives, (ries to lavga of her fainting. She calls Dan | but he is in conference with the presi- | dent of his company. Later she goes | to a doctor. She is going to have a h baby! CHAPTER 17 ARIAN worked furiously, run-| ning through ledger pages. | sorting financial data. Gradually she gained composure. Early in| May was so far away, so much a part of the distant future, that it could be ignored. The thing to do was to forget what Dr. Moss had|} said, to live each day and let May/| |} .“} answer its own riddles. 3 Working on a chart, she mentally, laid the first brick in a wall behind! Sieh she would keep her secret, | . hy i - IL 9-23 hind which even she would never) RET ——— ET'S GET RID OF A Te /, lock. The wall was to be made up| : = v : —_— -S ’ 77 A, RWILLIAMS | of such capable endeavor that Mr. SE |i ANEMIA, BY ALL MEANS! R199 vo d id Sr

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Fellows would look upon her as an — 3 oN I'L ABNER absolute necessity to the office. |] qa ore, 1890 uited Putters Srnitends. ob > —By Al Capp

There was to be no more irrita-| bility. A cheerful, ha y manner “You'll have to forget your personal dislikes, Hash ! You | HULLO, PO-LICE /- THIS IS WAL "BRAIN: TH’ DUDE GAT GARSON! - TEE-HEE » REMEMBER THE Vr y. A cheer ppY get Your versona) dislikes, Hashimura! Youre only | [CeAuCIoLEZJCAT GARSON Ti FAINTED WHEN AH TOLE | YOU'RE THE MOST TIME THE, RAT TONI BOYS | : LEVEL 7 WE'VE GOT Ry Pe a a] to take the guest's hat and coat! | GRIMNULF-AR JEST POLISHED | HIM AH WERE AIN'T { €0LD-BLOODED J] | IS TRAPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE? ) wikt A ALL % EMOLIGH ON GARSON ppv. Some day she would go to OFF "TH’ DUDE AN’ AH IS ! RUBBED OUT THE OLDEST > A SAY! AND THE B TAIN

Dr. Moss, she would laugh and say, HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis| NOW GOIN’ T'SEE “TH BRAIN’ § OD IT ANYHOW. WHILE HE AMER ND HE_BRAI WERE A) .

"You were mistaken.” | - AT TH' RITZTOP APAHTMLINTS, ; At 4 o'clock Dan called. “Want “T] | | NUMBER 7)l. SEE YO' LATER ICR pet 'M PROUD OF r A T OTH TOT He gomething. Marian?” 1 @ em A BOYS! ae 7 > ‘EM, BOYS’ “No-0—1I feel badly about last 2 : night—" | 'I guess we've been heading toward last night for a long time. See you at 5.” A distinct click said | that he had hung up the receiver. | The click bothered her for a mo-| ment, then she turned back to her work So everything was all right. Dan! would be waiting at 5, Mr. Fellows | was pleased, the wall was already | amazingly secure. She'd beat the] game. Above everything else, Dan must | not know what the doctor had said. ; "5 2 ’ : w If she told Dan it might be real. | / f bh 3 ar é —By Fred Harman

She got into Dan's car, saying in ¢ TRE TS TTR or : a little rush, "I'm glad to see you. . : 5 F 4 u | IM SORRY, RAQUEL! Y/ ADIOS WHAT TRAIL TH TRAIL OF “THE mister.’ ¥ : v HOWLS HAS BEEN MURDERING LITTLE BEAVER AND \( HANDSOME! WE ON \_ WEREWOLF OF He said. “Thanks.” not looking at | \ ~ gE \' i : NOL a CANYON 1 MUST RETURN T™© NOW, TA XK WOLF CANYON / her. He was still a little grim, Mar- ’ 3 ¥. : | in ” bmi Wiig) A RED RYDER? : fan noticed the tight muscle in his | a a \ | ! ¥ = " ASTA LLU 2 ] ME “I'm a good girl now.” she said. | |

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“Can vou forget about last night?” “No.” he answered, "but let's not go into it again | “Did vou see Dolly this morning? | How did she and Randy Means | make out?” | He wanted to hurdle the late un- | pleasantness and she fell in with him. "Oh, they had a won-der-

ful time.” imitating Dolly. “At least | ” | Ay yi ~ CR \ / 7 RK ~ of from Dolly's standpoint it was mar- | oF . / - H ] Po ¢ /, : 3 AREA N

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Dan's jaw relaxed a bit. “From| "But, Doc—you told me I had to get them out of my subconscious!” NANCY Randy's, too, I guess.” | = “Did you see him today?” | FLAPPER FANN By Sylvia F'1'M APPOINTIN' YOU YOU CAN Z

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—vou know how people get.” “You don't mean—" She left the A MAYORS HAVE LUE! SAFETY

sentence unfinished, ready to laugh. “I think it's the real thing.” “Not really?” “Sure—and I'm glad for both of them. Theyre two swell people and I'm glad to see them get together.” “Oh, I think vou're grossing your bridges before vou get to them.” “Time will tell. He asked us to have dinner with them tomorrow night at the Medinah Club.” ”n n n

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Ty ANDY MEANS was only human, - = E\ hed like a smart girl, well- — Pre SE — turned-out girl. Dolly had heen CLE LL TLS Ea known to carry a black purse with WASHINGTON TUBBS II By C brown shoes, sometimes she wore her ~ " . HY sarane gloves twice without washing them OH, LORD OF HOLY MEN, WE HAVE CAPTURED LET EACH BE / DD. \ : y y V7 — “Just take my advice and leave | hs MISERABLE SPIES VIEWING THE SACRED ANOINTED WITH OIL : 4 fo Nes BEA NE Dolly alone,” Dan was saying. He BEAUTY RITES OF WIPPA-HULA. AND BECOME A 7 Ui NRAR 7% Nav P| GOING TO BURN US AT THE (Zee » NZ, TY STAKE !

did not add, “You might spoil her,” | | ‘\ FLAMING SACRIFICE 2 u 2 p | TO THE 8ODDESS

but the inference was plainly there. | 1 2% Marian mused, “It'd be a joke on | | ; OF BEAUTY. us if Dolly married Randy Means. I'm afraid she wouldn't be cleaning |) our apartment any more.” It was really something of a thought. Who would take care of them if Dolly—? They stopped at the market. Ten- || | derloin steaks, a glass of preserved | | figs. Dan loved preserved figs and | cream cheese. Marian was deliber- | |

Reaching the apartment, she ran | up the stairs ahead of Dan. The| 9-23 blow had fallen and it had not & crushed her. She was the same, exactly the same. Dr. Moss’ news had already taken on the form of a “ie bad dream from which she had THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguso awakened. eee... ee She took great pains with the| fi x= dinner, rushing into the bedroom 3 AN ay | J |

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ately playing up to Dan that night.!

at the last minute to change to a new, and very fetching, house coat. It was pink and orchid taffeta, the colors blending together. It had a : A ; lovely metal belt and tiny flower i i RON WNAE buttons. It swished delightfully. It | A po | had cost too much—much too much. Even on a half-price sale. it had been definitely beyond Marian's clothes allowance. She felt a trifle

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annoved when Dan did not notice the hous: coat |

He always cleared the table, rins- | A (A (5 nT fl | & Sl : oY ing the dishes and stacking them | nai | (& J l RY rr feta WH apn. 199 INC. T. a CU BT. R Roe iles . » Ss inn | | h . yo £2 : R ~3 in neat piles for Dolly to wash in LACEY In YY . ) Na 7 IN SLACIER PARK, t —By Martin

the morning. While he worked, § ) Jt, HAS SLID A7E7ELN MULES |

Marian hung around the Kitchen. Usually he whistled through his | teeth, That evening he was frown-| {488% 2 FROM ITS ORIGINAL. FOUNDATION. ingly silent. | le ee Es ————————

: Nn | | ~~ ! AFTER ALL XOOR GRAND J, “What were you doing in Mr. COPR. 135 BY NEA SERVICE. INC | vy Mah : pr att Pfs NV MOST §7 Turner's office this morning?” Mar- ; WPI - CX tl : \ : hh \ ae OL. OLLL

nr asked. te said nothing for a moment.| CGREENGA SE. then, “He called me in to ask if clos 1 thought he was managing the ARE NAMED FOR, business with the greatest possible SIR WILLIAAA

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he could not see his face. * “youre spoofing.” WHO INTRODUCED “That could happen, couldn't it?” THEA INTO “Not to you.” She hadn't meant ENGLAND. to say that. Pointed rejoinders had been coming too readily to her lips. Dan washed his hands and turned. N72 Marian stood in the kitchen door. ZN «1 wish you'd kiss me, Dan,” she ¢. \ said wistfully. ~~

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