Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-27

TOPICS O. the TIMES

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Topeka has railroad engineer who
draws 5000 pay q month and pays all
mony to three divorced wives.
Rural free delivery and good roads,"
says the Minneapolis Tribune. "are twin
Improvements which will do more than
anything else to relieve life on the farm,
especially in the west, OF many OF Its So
cial drawbacks
Observing the notice which the capital
city receives from the press in other
quarters of the state, the Des Moines
Capital aff1rms that 8 es Moines is. in
fact, perennial inspiration to every
body and everything" This is quite
true, and with good reason. The fact
too, that 1t is an inspiration for every
thing" makes it difficult sometimes for
other parts Of the state to keep it upon
rational ground enough to observe the
equities.
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Edward Eppley, of Akron, o.. was re-
Gently found guilty of the unlawful pos
session of dynamite. This is one of the
cases growing out OF the riots there in
August last, when the city building was
blown up and burned. This is the fifth
conviction.
Eleven Indian languages are still
spoken in Mexico, from which 1t may
be inferred that one language ii one
country Is not q strenuous issue.
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Henry Clews thinks the extraordinary
activity in Wall street and the large
investments in stocks are the result Of
present sound conditions and future
promise of being we'll sustained He
says: "Sanguine observers will find in
the situation as it stands plenty of rea-
lson for expecting continued speculative
and investment activity. We have had
a long run of Gllllness in the market,
and revival was therefore to be nat
lated a situation calculated to foster
blooms in many directions. - But
! all enthusiasm apart, there does seem
/ much solid promise of an era of pros
4 perity that will give enhanced value to
4 all forms of sound enterprise: and,
i would he venturesorne to predict that
4 they will not advance still further be-
4 fore the end has been reached; reac-
i tions of more or less severity of course
are now in order and must be expected.
Comptroller of the Currency Dawes
in his annual report urges more strin-
i gent laws to regulate the loaning of
funds by banks to their own officers
land directors.
4 There is movement on in Denver
to suppress vice, but the leaders in 1T
will hardly go to Tammanya and Croker
i for advice as TO methods. Two thou
& sand Denverites In mass meeting Sun
4 day decided that vice must be sup
pressed"
The Canadians are far ahead of us in
the matter of packing fruit for export
4 says a business man quoted by the Ken
nebec (N1e.) Journal. land consequently
they have less trouble in disposing of
(, their fruit Look at our present method
ofEshipping apples An old flour barrel,
s dngy and dirty on the outside and white
on the inside, is the usual way our app
Il pies are packed for the foreign market.
in the barrel, and the rolling Of the ship
or Earring of the cars causes them to be
bruised and distigured. BY the time the;
4 reach the buyer they are badly dam
aged, or at least present an unsightly
appearance to the eye. We can never
build up a European trade until this
matter is remedied."
Be careful, too, not to forget the
cranberry sauce.
!. j Is announced that Texas Is having
Its annual epidemic of smallpox. II
has a tendency to break out in Iowa
, also. II is necessary for every town Il
be upon its guard at this season.
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The desk which the late Robert G.
4 Ingersoll used in his Law Office durine
= his career in Peoria, ILL.,, and on which
were penned many of his ablest ora
s5lstions, has passed into the possession o.
/. the Peoria Y. NJ. c. A., and will be used
by the secretary OF the railroad depart
ment in the new association building
Evidently the desk is not regarded a!
"profane' by the Christian young men
The Kansas State Temperance Uniol
o has adopted new plan to aid in tn
e enforcement of the prohibitory law Ii
I Kansas. The officers will furnish de
3 tectives TO procure evidence against VIC
lators. In announcing this new featur
the management Of the union, thru til
executive committee. says: If there i
: any evidence to be had the man fur.
nished by the union never faile to secur
d it. Terms, s15 per week and local an
travelling expenses Following this i
e the statement that the unions detec
tives can obtain all the evidence, In az
: erage communities. in one week. I'll
Z methods are much like those In vogu
: in Iowa among the members Of TIL
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