The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 138, Ed. 2 Saturday, March 11, 1939 Page: 9 of 10
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SATURDAY, MARCH 11,1939
100 Years of Baseball
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
Sketches by Art Krenz
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
PAGE 9
SED 61
THAT
KID NEEDS
A HEAD
PROJECTOR
. Our Boarding House
with
Major Hoople
Out Our Way
By Williams'
ce
They laughed of Ty Cobb when
he broke in at Augusta. He
could not judge fly balls and
knew nothing of sliding.
Cobb spent months learning how to field and slide. .. slid until blood
dripped from his uniform. He was not the fastest runner of his day
and still he was the greatest base-runner that ever lived. He Jevcl.
oped the fadeaway, fallaway, and hook slides.
FTP
it
pay.
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Y
The Georgia Peach’s base-running wrecked clubs He led the Amer-
Icon League in batting 12 years led everybody in bose-stealing
and in a dozen other ways While playing right field for Detroit, he
threw out three runners at first base in one gome.
R. 1939 BY NEA seavicE. INC.
The ingenious and inventive
Cobb stands alone as the fiery
genius of th a game.
NEXT: The Federal League.
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Abbie an' Slats
YOU’VE BEEN
GIVIN’ ME THE
THIRD DEGREE
WHY ?
/ WE WISHED TO
ASSURE OUR-
SELVES THAT
YOU ARE SO
A DEEPLY INTER-
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AND WE)
ARE SAT-4
ISFIED
THAT YOU
ARE PRAC-
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so
WHAT ?
YOUNG LADY THAT INVULNER
NO OTHER YOUNG
LADY COULD COME
BETWEEN YOU
WMI
2 STUDENTS ARE
1 E MOST SELECT GROUP
1 OF DEBUTANTES IN
| AMERICA. CHARMING
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ATT EIR AGE - APT TO
BE A BIT ROMANTIC
ABLE
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LAST WEEK-ONE
OF OUR YOUNG
LADIES ELOPED
WITH THE ONLY
MALE ALLOWED
ON THE CAMPUS, -
THE WATCHMAN
HOLD EVERYTHING
By Raeburn Van Buren
ERST-PERMIT US TO INTRODUCE
OURSELVES. THIS IS PURITY TISKET-
t I AM TABITHA TASKET. WE ARE THE
1 FOUNDERS AND DEANS OF THE
7 TISKET- TASKET SCHOOL FOR
GIRLS
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IT WAS A DREADFUL TRAGEDY
WE DO NOT WISH IT TO .
HAPPEN AGAIN. WE WANT- ‘
ED TO BE SURE THAT OUR
) YOU 1 FORTY
SEEM TO- BUCKS
ER-FILL PAN
THE BILL
THE 4 WEEK#
- SALARY
NEXT WATCHMAN WOULD
NOT ONLY BE COMPLETELY________
UNATTRACTIVE TO OUR GIRLS IS FORTY
BUT SO MUCH ATTACHED TO / DOLLARS
SOME OUTSIDE GIRL-THAT 4 A WEEK
NONE OF THEM COULD -ER-,___
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By Clyde .
Lewis Movie
Scrapbook
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PEAL NAME, JACQUES DE BUJAC.
IS PART INDWN5PENTCARLY
LIFE AS SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
COPR 1939 By NEA SERVICE, INC. b-LL LEwEz
“Ya can’t fool Jocko, buddy—he just won’t accept checks
that ain’t certified!"
Courtesy
Carrier boys serving this newspaper have been selected because
of good training in their homes, their excellence in school work
and because of their conduct as young gentlemen. Their con-
tact with the public is expected to reflect these qualities.
However, any breach of courtesy or good service should be
reported to the Circulation Department.
Service
If you do not have your paper by 5:30 P. M., telephone
2-5151 before 8:00 P. M. and ask the Circulation Department
to send you a copy.. .
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
* “In the Afternoon Read The Press”
EARNED HIS FIRST MONEY AG A
CowBoYs. MARDIED AND DIVORCED
ADRIENNE AMES...
By BILL PORTER AND
GEORGE SCARBO
Bruce Cabot’s first movie job
was “kiss tester" at one of the
emajor studios . . . hired to make
screen tests with promising femi-
nine talent . . . job eventually
ded to a real contract. . . born
in New Mexico . . . worked in
stock in Chicago , . . was a part-
ner in a Hollywood night club
. . . worked as sparring partner
to a pug, bottle washer in a dairy,
seaman on an oil tanker collector
of pay station coins for the tele-
phone company, railway section
worker . . now working in
“Dodge City."
DOC, THIS
PSEUDOITIS DISEASE
SOUNDS LIKE
SOMETHING AN
AMBULANCE
CHASER INVENTS
WHEN YOU AREN’T
-HAMBURGERED
ENOUGH TO
COLLECT
DAMAGES
I MET A T
SWARM OF 1
SHADY AILMENTS e
WHEN L WAS 1
JOCKEY ON All (
BANDAGE-WAGON 3
INH’ WAR—
BUT THIS
PseUDOITS IS
A STRANGER
"TO ME, DOC!
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- ONE OF "THE .
MOST COMMON OF 6
ALL AILMENTS/
IT ATTACKS THE (
SLUGGARDS AND Y
THE INDOLENT! IN f
PLAIN ENGLISH, IT
MEANS THE PATIENT
IS PRETENDING )
ILLNESS! 1—
HAA
OH, LET ME GO OUT
AN PAY THEM SEVEN \
DOLLARS ON MY DEBT! 1
THAT HUMILIATES ME,
YOU PAYIN’ MY DEBTS
FER ME LIKE I COULDN’T it
HANDLE A CENT! 4
YOU CAN’T. - - YOU’D
FIND SOME WAY
OF SPENDING IT
BEFORE YOU GOT
OUT TO THE FRONT
WALK
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(“YP ..
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. THE MAJORS INDISPOSITION=
BUTTER POCKETS
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ROYAL HIGHNESS,AND I SUP -
WE’VE COME FOR POSE YOU’D
DINNY’S EGO. / LIKE TEA AN’ .
TOAST SERVED J
( WITH IT, TOO’
NO TEA AN’TOAST...
AN’ NONE OF YOUR
LIP, EITHER... JUST
. TH’ EGG.’
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i LEAVE
WORK IT TO ME,
— ROWDY.
BAND
Jim Hardy
THANKS T RONALD ROLLNDoes 7
RECKLESS DRIVING, A Boy WHO A.
FEW MINUTES BEFORE WAS WALKING
MERRILY ALONG THE ROAD TOWARD
HOME. IS NOW STRUGGLING FOR :
HIS LIFE IN A TREA CHEROUS
AWASH.. ) 77ess
I DIDN’T
SEE THE
BOY AT
ALL!
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By Crane
Freckles
RECKLES
AND
LARD GOT
2.000
STAMPS
FROM
OSSIE AND
EVERY
ONE OF
THEM IS
ALIKE/
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OF
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ON
THERE!
EVERYTHING’S-
. SET.
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UH WUZN’T WACHIN’
TH’ ROAD? HE HAD
T’ JUMP OFF THIS ,
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OKAY.
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THE
ALBUM---
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MY FATHER!
By Dick Moores
By Blosser
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MEANWANE ,A CAR, APING C ROLLO
THE 1 1 SESSER AN. TMES:19 NOW
PARRIED iNa TAE SHADOWS ‘ THE.
ORDER SEEMS To BE MOTENSENY
INTERESTED IN SOMETHING *......
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Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 138, Ed. 2 Saturday, March 11, 1939, newspaper, March 11, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688827/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.