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THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1983 THE GUMPS— THE SCHEMERS \ DON'T WANT A SLIP-UP IN THIS - NOW CALL HER UP AND TELL HER WE THINK WE'LL TAKE THR PROPERTY~- BUT WE'D LIKE AN OPTION ON. IT” FOR A FEW DAYS= A&k HER TO COME IN AND SIGN (7 ‘YOU CAN SEE HEY LOOK EXACTLY ALIKE AW~ THIS 1S EXACTLY WHAT I WANT I'LL OFFER OLD LADY DE STROSS FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS JO SIGN THIS OPTION~ THEN PLL SWITCH THE PAPERS AND GEY HER JO SIGN THE QuiT CLAIM DEED NI WELL» HAVE YOU GOT THE PAPERS? THE QUIT CLAIM DEED AND THE OPTION = DID You HAVE THEM PRINTED ( EXACTLY ALIKE AS | TOLD You ? RIGHTO, CHIEF = WE JUST Gor THEM FROM YHE PRINTERS = THE PAPERS ARE ALMOST PERFECT DUPLICATES — WELL, $0 FAR SO GOOD- SHAT BUILDING IS WORTH $100,000- IF | CAN TRICK HER INTO SIGNING THAT QUIT CLAIM DEED, PLL WAVE THE WHOLE THING FOR... $500.09 = INSTRAD- AND THE ~ PROPERTY WiLL BE MINE~ | SIDE GLANCES - - - By George Clark | Rag. US. Pat. OF 1933, by The Chinas Tren HI, KIDS! UNCLE JOHN “GAVE THE SECRET six A SILVER DOLLAR FOR HELPIN’ ARREST MAYBEE. OSCAR COULDN'T GIVE THAT PARROT TO A BETTER PERSON THAN MRS. MONEYHEFFER—— bi ‘YOU CAN MAKE ALL THE NOISE YOU WANT TO —— SHE WON'T HEAR YOU, ANYWAY f 9.1959 By NEA Seevict” INC RED. U.SBAT, “Oh, Horace, Junior is giving me trouble again. He's just come home from school, and he has some girl with him to whom he’s just been married.” THIS CURIOUS WORLD S : . aceon ° , p ki it " ROMAN POET OF THE FIRST THE NEW BIG SHOT! CENTURY 6.C,, THE CUSTOM ; WELL, YOU'LL HAVE TO GET ALONG WITH THEM,OP DO THE DARNING “OURSELF. I'VE BEEN BUSY FIXING THE BABY'S THINGS MY CLEAN SOCKS HAVE MORE HOLES IN THEM THAN A SIEVE,AND , BUTTONS ARE MISSING FROM ALL OF MY SHIRTS “OU MEAN 1 GOTTA IT WONT HURT YOU- JUST PLUG IN THE COFFEE,AND MAKE SOME \ST.T HAVE TO MEET AGUSTA AT EIGHT.WERE ‘TAKING JIMMIE AND GENE DOWN ‘TO BUY THEM SOME TOYS WELL, WHILE YOU'RE ABOUT IT, BUY A SECOND FIDDLE FoR Met! CAN AN ACT WITH A KICK IN IT! WE'LL, ADVERTISE TH’ DANCING] |EACH SALE MEANS A PER- WORMS AND PECPLE’LL ELOck! | FORMANCE! EvERY TIME TH’ TOW STORE! INSTEAD OF || CASH REGISTER RINGS, TH’ | HOOKING THE WORMS, WE'LL] | WORMS GO INTO THEIR DANCE! Hook customers! NOW, CANDIDLY, WHAT DO YA “WINK OF THE IDEA? OUME THINGS, BUT THIS / PASS JUDGMENT —OR Pass ou’ WORM CIRCUS STUFE ---2 AGAIN— LET ME EXPLAIN CY CLEVER 10EAa! HEY, Nix TH’ WoRMs, DOTH PERFORMING! DISSOLVER OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES/ © 1003 BY MEA sence, wc. 5-2 INT. SAYTIMS i AT THE MOVIES Huge “King Kong” “The Working Man,” Makes City Sag) Story of Big Business, Kong. immense prehistoric ape who | Has George Arliss is the menace on the fantastic RKO-, 3 iz Radio Picture, “King Kone.” featur George Arliss, beloved by theatre: ing Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and | 80ers the world over, has found the Bruce Cabot at the Capitol Theatre | perfect role in his latest picture, “The PitAst: Go,now! 1 f BOOTS — PLERGE LNT WT WAS A GAME AT TiRsT! YES! A SPORTING now, is one of the most terrifying | villains that ever made a camerman shudder. Certainly he is the largest. He is fifty feet tall. His tread shakes -the earth, and his hands are capable ef crushing an airplane to matchwood. His strength had flourished since the time man was born. and Hollywood ‘was a grazing ground for the bronto- ; eauri and the hypocampi. He ruled, by the right cf might. the lost island that had been left behind in the| windy track of the centuries. But the thing that bewildered Kong, | king of his realm, was the never-be- fore experienced emotion of tender- ness that thrilled in his savage breast | when he saw Beauty for the first time | in the form of a woman. It led him | into battle with prehistoric monsters her—and it led him to his doom he tried to lay New York low— | t- wipe cut this. to him, weird thing called civilization. | New York State was the first to! ioonze motor vehicles. In 1901, the | year the license law went into ef- | fect. the state collected $954. U.S. BALANCE OF TRADE (FIRST FOUR MONTHS 193233) 1952| $593,965,000. : | —- | today. jand amusing situations, replete with Working Man,” a Warner Bros. fea- ture which opens tomorrow at the Paramount Theatre. It is a highly spiced comedy drama of American business and youthful folly in which the star appears as a short-tempered, soft hearted cham- Fion of “big business” who steals time from his own affairs to straight en out the lives of the ophaned chil- dren of his former strongest com- petitor. lightly reminiscent of “The Mil- lionaire” but boasting a more dra-| matic story and even finer production values and cast, “The Working Man” said to furnish Arliss with his most man role in a story that is timely an contains wide mass appeal. As “Reeves,” grumpy bachelor head of a great manufacturing concern. who gces fishing for a vacation only to find that the expedition leads him into the most exciting business battle of his life—against his own firm— Arliss. according to advance word from Hollywood, displays all the qual- ities that have made him recognized as the foremost actor of the screen It is a story filled with humor real drama, played by a cast of all- star calibre. The Chicago Air Race Corporation will stage an international air race meet on the afternoons of July 1-4, and plans to hold the 1933 interna- tional Gordon Bennett Cup balloon races during the same period. Gov. John Pollard of Virginia, has announced he will recommend a sub- stantial decrease in automobile license taxes, and an increase of two cents in the gasoline tax for road building and maintenance. . WEVER WART To f ME EXPLAIN SEE YOO AGAIN, ‘a SS) CRAANCE | \F 1 WAD WON, TRE REWARD WAS Yo WANE SEED A CASTLE OF MY OWN . 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