Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-01
TOPICS OF THE TINES

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A winter excursion to Cuba is one OF
the possibilities for the members of the
Michigan Press Association.
Five hundred penniless men are
stranded in Nome, Alaska, and reign
iof terror is expected. When the cry is
bread or blood something must give
way.
Two disreputable women of Dies
Moines have just been sentenced by
Judge Bishop to four years in the peni-
Tertiary for running disorderly houses
and enticing two young girls into vice.
they had pleaded in extenuation of their
crime that the mothers of the girls had
consented to the movement. and the
Judge said In passing sentence that he
would have the grand jury investigate
the cases of these mothers and II they
were found guilty he would send them
10 the penitnetiary to serve with THESE
other women. Such mothers are the
more Objectionable criminals.
There are some things that even the
Kansans cannot stand, accustomed as
they are to freaks of all kinds. a Ger
man farmer who went to priest 10
have his son christened Leon Czolgosz,
was indignantly rebuked by that worthy
and was afterwards driven out of the
county by his outraged neighbors.
November makes mild and modest
bow Her 'eye severe will come later.
Senator BENZ. Tillman, of South Caro-
lima. asserts that .srhe action OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt will necessitate our kill
ing a thousand more niggers in the
south before they will learn to keen
their places" Such remarks as this do
more to encourage the shot gun method
than any movement that could be
made.
American coal is rapidly crowdihg the
English product out of France and an
other chapter of moralizing about the
strenuousness of western trade may be
expected from our British cousins.
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The deadly bubonic plague has slipped
into Liverpool, Eng, and six deaths
have been announced.
The Philadelphia Record thus quotes
a business man: Unless man has
specially schooled himseir, memory is
bound to be treacherous sometimes. /
don't trust mine at all any more. It has
gone back on me too often. Besides, a
postal card only costs a cent, and al
ways carry lot of them around with
me. My end Of the business calls me
away from the store great deal, and
no matter where may be-riding on a
street car walking or in one of the nu-
merous places of business which / fire.
duent-when an idea occurs to me that
REQUIRES my attention jot memoran-
dunn of it down on a postal card, adj
dress 1t to myself and drop it in the
nearest letter box. Some days l will
send a dozen postal cards to myself,
and the next morning they are on my
desk awaiting me. l have been doing
this for two or three years, and think
its pretty good system
In order to facilitate the moving Of
coal and to relieve the blockade at the
mines the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany has decided to place orders imme-
diateiy for $4,000 pressed steel cars.
In mining camp some eighty miles
from Cooigardie, in western Australia,
a carpenter died, and his widow had
offers of marriage from the doctor who
attended the deceased, the undertaken,
the clergyman who read the burial SER
vie, the local apothecary who made up
the medicines prescribed for the de-
parted and the custodian of the ceme-
terry where he was inferred; likewise
from about score of mine managers
and miners. She did not accept one OF
the suitors, and departed for her home
in Melbourne
Here is little two-minute romance
while you wait. In Chicago pretty Marie
starry. Polish girl, IS years old. who
lives with her sister. says she was mar
ried to John Janko without knowing it.
She cannot speak q word 2f English.
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