Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-09
! TOPICS OF THE TIMES !

! TOPICS OF THE TIMES i
4.-ssssii /, s-.,ss 1851
There is great expansion in the re-
publican election figures.
There is one safe course open to it,
The Iowa popocratic party might take
advantage of the bankrupt law
$50
Omaha's public schools require the
services of 1874 teachers, who are In
structing nearly 10000 pupils. The
public school system is still the biggest
institution in the community says the
Bee.
Fifteen hundred of Admiral Dewey's
relatives have accepted an invitation
to join him in family reunion in New
York next year.
In spite of the tremendous increase
of the government income and the COM
plants of the secretary of the treasury
that he has more money than he knows
what to do with, there Will be no
Recommendation in the for Incoming
report of the commissioner of internal
jrevenue looking to a decrease of tax
alton Commissioner Wilson recon-
lmends some slight amendments in the
revenue law, but none of them have to
do With decreasing the amount of tax
Iation or affording relief from the in
lconveniences of the tax on kilograms,
checks, receipts and similar instru-
ments.
The Michigan supreme court has
ruled adversely against the claim that
no person has a right to print or circu-
late pictures of another without his
consent.
The next great question to be set
tied by the American people is the
Thanksgiving turkey problem.
The war department. is Systematically
gathering data pertaining to the wal.
4 With Spain. Not only are the official
records being carefully preserved with
elaborate index and catalogue, but ali
1.-The literature upon the war has been
4 accumulated a special branch of the
4 military information division is at work
upon a Photographic history of the en-
gagements. All those who held permits
1 to take pictures in Cuba, Porto Rico
A and the Philippines have been required
to furnish the war department with the
4 negatives and from the best of tn csc
copies are made, enlarged, and classi-
ben sent out in every direction asking
/ for reports and books which deal with
1 the subject, and one OF the most inter-
+ esting records is an elaborate collection
of newspaper clippings, the mos giGan-
tic eyer brought together upon one sub
ject. 1t furnishes a unique journalistic
history of the war in twenty large
II value to historians. The collection OF
data is now confined to books and ocu-
ments bearing on the military opera
lions. Special consideration is also
given to works pertaining to the re-
sources and political conditions OF
countries which are engaged in warfar,
: or where such contests are anticipated
/ 50 that officers of the army may follow
current military operations
on account of the pressure of bust
ness caused by Uncle Sam troops, Ag
: uinaldo has little time to spend on dis
f couraging democratic election returns
The statistician of the Philadelphi;
Record has ascertained that there ar
in the United States today 5,427,Ts
. bachelors and 3,224,4e4 spinsters. NTH
west there are ten available males 70
every maiden, and even n the nor-ther1
and eastern states there are actuaii
more bachelors than spinsters twent
f years old and upward. No state IN tn
, union has as many maidens as singl
i men.
There's nothing the ma tier with Han
l ma. from the Ohio point of view.
n November seems also determined
h shorten winter by the gift of delightfl
+ weather.
Z One ofthe penalties of greatness is t
. have all your private affairs open t
Y the public eye, as in the case of Ad
! miral Dewey and his prospective brid
= 1t would drive modest couple to
quiet wedding abroad as prefera BILE.
Now as to the best political policy
: shoot it,
r Iron is so scarce in the manu- factul
l. ing districts that several firms hay
l. sent men to Cuba to collect canno
+ balls and other metal articles from til
10 battlefelds of the recent war. 1t is be
a ing gathered up all over this countr
also, and in this respect 1t results in
general cleaning up, which is desirabl
le Sealed bids will be received by Et
10 ward Atkinson of Boston for new si1
lie for capital for Aguinaldo.
~ 1t looks very black to Mr. White.
And very blue beside;
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