The Archive · 1937

In Parenthesis

The Geography Primer SHANCHAI is an island—an surrounded by a sea of war, island of peace Someone Has Blundered Prstan lamb-skins, black, twenty skins, to be sold at phenomenally cheap prices. Real bargain.

There's something phone about that ad.!

Answers to Correspondents Punter:—You would have won except for the fact that you were beaten at the post by another enthusiast. To prevent any argument as to whether the bet stands you had better send the stakes to us.

Dear, Dear, Dear!

"THE DECISION

Of a colonial judge that sea captains have no power to perform marriages is regarded as having removed one of the perils of the deep. The way to remove most other travel risks is to take out a Baggage Policy"

Does this mean that, if one mislays one's baggage, the insurance company will replace her?

Name Changing Tue Mongolian Autonomous State has been putting in some swift work, the Assembly having changed the name of the land to Khokho, and of Kweisui, its capital, to Khokhohoto (Blue City). Tt is expected that very shortly another town will be named Bokokhokhohoto,—the city of blue noses, So appropriate in the wintry weather up north, don't you think?

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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