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PROFESSOR Noodlet OMAHAOS nUYDY AND BElT HE EDIATOR WEEKLY. NEWSPAPER OMAHA, NEBRASKA. FRID:\Y, ~A1'iUARY 30th 1925. NO.5. TerribleConditionsAtLocalDanceHalls FREIGHT RATES DISCUSSED BY PROFESSOR NOODLEt SOMe "PHOt<1~ SERVICE!! SLIP OF A GIRL ALMOST NUDE .D ear Professor:- THE BURLINGTON PRESIDENT One time I called a friend of mine. To China he had. -planned "to fJo. IN DANCE WITH· OLD SHIEk Ana while I waited for the line J President Of "Q" System Delivers Epoch Making. he crosseaethe ocean to and. fro! One Of The Many Incidents Found At The New Speech Before Greater Omaha Committee. Now that's the limit~ I aver. Shanghai And Other Dance Halls By Reporter. I ask you-can. SPEECH BROADCAST THROUGHOUT U. S. '!Iou bea.t it.. sir! J:Snooks MANY JAZZ DANCERS ALL DRUNKED UP Railroad Head Says Canal Traffic A menace To 1\lid·West Shippers- TIl R P t Other Bailroad Officials Talk Co-Operation And Prosperity- IC-onditions At Some Places l\lueh Worse an eported- roprie ors Walter Head President Of Shortest Bailroad- I Putting On Soft Pedal Of Late-ScJlOol Girls And Boys Laugh At Age Limit-Dancers Try To Out Do Future Prospects Appear Bright. '- Each Other In Immoral Poses. I called a bride-and While the public in general is for-l epoch making speech was direct and ~room one tinte c-......--__-'_ What Is it that .is making of ourIher dress well above the waist line ever fighting railroad freight and to the point. The tens of thousands to wish them girls in their early teens, professional and in that condition was reeling passenger rates without direct or of radio fans who listened in learned sweet felicity. sporting women or still worse, trans- around in the most oriental dance fash. actual know:ed~ ~f the true condi- something about railroads, railroad- And when. forming them from decent little ion with her man. tions of affaIrs, It 18 a great pleasure ing freicrht rates and remedial legis- at last I Q'ot school girls to unmoral ones cater- Out in the main dining room where to have some such authority as Hale latlon wWch the; will not soon for- thei r 1i n.e- ing to their boy friends-the dance the patrons were supposed to do Holden president of t~e C. B. & Q. get. Holden gave his views in very th~ir tJount<est·". han as it is being conducted in Omaha their dancing was found as mixed a come to. Omah~ and m a. sna~py simple but forceful english so that ::1~. just now. crowd as one could wish to see. speech gwe solId facts on this all un- all could easily get his view point. i;ifra.ndeon. -an..- Reports of the terrible conditions There one found girls and boys that p°Trurtant .qU;Stiohn. f . ht tes Among other things he said that existing in some of these infamous could not possibly have been more t $v,,rered mer eall:It 1S dt a f·rag1 hi rah b tseemth seemed to Impress. his..attentIve au- Prof Noodle halls have attracted much attention than fifteen or sixteen. They were rdsa~ lry ~ ~ "-~-tw..\~ unusuh un,t f tt e dience most was that the railroads l of late. Such reports are usually exa- greatly in the minority however. same 0 e 0 a poun 0, u er claim the protection of that express t \\~ y'- Igerated but if what a reporter for Most of the men seemed to be from or a dozen eggs or of a month s house declaration in their demand to be al- Ithe Mediator saw t~e ~arly part of 21 ~n ~p to 60, but their companions rent..Close tobserversdm't ofh comparativethat lowed -to resume th·eir share 0 f the . last week is any cntenon then the while lor the most part m.uch younger pnces~- . hmus t a· 1 hi however'f hi h traffIC. t hI·'ey a ways en)oyedan d b e COMMISSION MAN STILL !EMMETT STREET SINK various high life acthities of dance were more mature than the ones found .uelg. t ra es are no g er I. ~s g allowed to handle the goods of the REGULAR CALLER ON HOLE NOT FORGOTTEN YET hall habitues has been only slightly to predominate at most of the other as other necessary commodIties for h f th 'ddl t' P. JONES STREET WOMAN I' touched upon bv. those interested'in dance halls visited. hi h . too merc ants 0 e m. ewes m aCl- w c we .arehipayIngbl ay, h b .I! =liC tern'tory as thev were built t 0 do --- I The he-she man out on Emmett the welfare cause of the youth of our Nearly every one in the place Holden, In s nota e speec e...ore I d • The commission man who is having, street and his particular friends may city. 'seemed to be more or leBs intoxicated, the Greater Omaha Committee and had a ways one. I· h his his fun with a lady friend at Nine- think the Mediator is through wit Under the pretense of ordering a some of those at the tables bad gone pointed out the fact that the divert- Among other speakers at tmost teenth and Jones is still a regularj the story told about the place several meal at the Shanghai late last week 'clear under', no longer able to neg<>- ing of traffic through the Panama epoch making gathering was W,alter caller at the place and don't seem to I weeks ago. If so they are only kid- the reporter took one of the private tiate the jazz steps so popular at the Canal was a direct slap at the com- W. Head who by the way is preSIdent care who knows it. The lady in ques-: ding themselves as we are waiting for booths, nibbled away at the food and place. The representative of the me-l'al "tnterests of the great mid- of the shortest railroad in the wor.ld h . 1 'f d' ·d Th . h • h .. ~ tion is per aps a bit more particul arIjust a tn Ie more Irect eVi ence con- then went exploring, e very fIrst paper recognized at least t .ree ot t e west of which Omaha is the central it being just seven-eighths of a mIle on that subject but the public should 1cerning the degenerate habits of one thing he saw was by far the worst. men, one a married man who had a • t lonG" and has two employees when 1 pam. <> ah b k and is going to know them and their I' Qf his friends, the SOl: of a prominent A few booths from the representatives' mighty pretty young dame as his He said that the proposed legislation business is good. T~ Om La. an ~r doings in the immediate future. ,Douglas county officIal. The facts table was found a middle aged man companion. The reporter was also to depriVe the Inter-State Commerce pointed out the fac... that ~his ral1- ,. we wish to oLtain are to be forthcom- and a slip of a girl dancing to the r.:ccgni::ed by at lea!Ot two who searn. eonui:Ussion of its authority in fixing road has 1,300,000 stockholders. Said SAMARDICK NOW THE ONE ing very shortly. music that wafted from the orchestra ed worried to see a newspaper man discretionary rates between commer- railroad is owned by th~ state of Ne- BIG GUN IN DOUGLAS COUNTY . out in the main dining room. about the place. One fairly well cial points, and establishing all rates br~ka an~ h.B.uls ma~en~ to the new LAW ENFORCEMENT I HOW ABOUT PARK HOTEL? The opening was just enough to get known rich widow was also seen with on the basis of competitive water capItal bUIlding at Lincom. I a good peek at the dancers who were an extremely young akiek whom sha rates not only J'eopardizes the life of Another speaker of importance was B b S d· -:-:-th h 1 h The Park Hotel at Fifteenth and both apparently so intoxic.ated they was mothering in the latest and most . f h 0 amar IC" IS e woe c eese '" _, railroads but endangers such middle- Conrad E. Spens an offICIal ate f hib't! I f Cass 1S stIll gomg heil-bent :ter lar.- J'ust reeled about the small booth," approved 1925 style. , d h h t now so ar as pro 1 on aw enoree- . •. • I. W estern markets as Omaha, Kansas Burlington. He aeclare t at t e ou -. d· Do I t tIon, accormng to late reporLS. t IS rather than danced. But the dance, I The next call was made at the . .'.. ment IS concerne ln ug as coun City and Minneapolis look for Nebraska IS very optIInlStiCo B b h' . t 'th thY'I saId...they are gettmg away WIth if such one could call it. It was of Roseland whose manager was out just ' h t d th t 0 says e IS gomg ou WI e. J h President Holden's speech before During his short talk - e sta e • a "b· . k" db· II th h + evervtl:l1ng but murder. ust ow the most degrading nature. Terrible at the time. At this place while . d 89 000 000 Ig stlC an nng a . e c ea.ers '. bli h d the Greater Omaha committee was Nebraska crops mcrease " to .
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