Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-22
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cally complete in Iowa.
As a comprehensive card of thanks
the following from the Canton IN. W
Repository seems to cover all contin-
gencies: Il take this means in express
ing my heartfelt thanks to all my
friends and neighbors who assisted in
any way or form in the recent death OF
my husband. Especially 10 l thank Rev.
e. P. Herbruck for his beautiful SER
mon. the choir for their hymns; also he
Improved Order of Red Men. Daughters
OF P%ocahontas. Liquor League. Bartend-
ers' Union. Daughters scf America No.
81, and the Famous Outing Club. of
which he was an active member l
also thank Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Shotlin,
Robert Shisler, Mr.. Amsbaugh, Mr.. Fry,
Mr.. Wilmer and Mr.. HeXimer. Mrs. Ida
Hug and daughter, 900 East North
street.
They may preach on riches dangers,
But the fact is with us still,
Fewer germs are OF the fifty
Than the humble dollar bill.
New York Sun.
The Bible publications of the Oxford
University Press have been issued for
900 years, and can be published in $50
languages and dialects. Every year
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this purpose Home. Orders for 100000
Bibles are quite commoh. and the sup
ply of printed sheets is so great that an
order for half a million copies can be
readily filled. On an average from
thirty to forty Bibles are furnished
every minute.
Mr.. Leopold de Rotnschild, in his
speech as chairman of the Newspaper
Press Fund dinner in London the other
day, demolished the tradition about the
way in which grandfather obtained adj
vance news of h victory at Waterloo.
According to the current story, which
even the Encyclopedia Britannica re-
peats, Nathan Mayer Ro.hschild was
present at the battle, and hurried back
to London as soon as he saw 1t vas de-
cided. getting there some hours before
the news became known, and making
enormous profits by buying up stocks.
His grandson told the newspaper men
that the accurate story would appeal
news came thru the medium of a small
Dutch newspaper. The news was pub
lllshed in a single line-Great victory of
the English at Amsterdam My grand
father, who vas the owner of some
ships, told his captains that whenever
they went anywhere they were always
to bring him the latest newspapers. One
of these trusted captains arrived with a
paper announcing the great victory. His.
grandfather, who believed, as tkey all
cid now. in the accuracy Of all newspa-
pers. Immediately gave The information
to Lord Liverpool. He lid not tell him
how he knew 1t, and his news was
secuted because the intelligence had ar
rived of the defeat of the English troops
on the previous day"
One of the questions concerning wire
less telegraphy not yet fully settled re-
lates to the route by which the waves
travel. Marconi himself inclines to the
opinion that a part of the energy deyel-
oped 1T the sending station moves thru
the air and a part thru the earth. He
also thinks that the larger share goes
by the latter path.
49,
Rice elevators for the storage and
economical handling of that product are
to be erected. When rice is threshed
nowadays 1t is put in bags, and remains
in them till sold. This injuries 1t. Two
men are required for loading, W to
take the bags from the thresher and
one is required to sew. The cost of
threshing a hundred acres of rice, with
the cost of the bags, is close to $40. An
elevator system would, it is said. save
a considerable portion OF this expense.
Kissing in theaters has been given a
legal standing by a Boston justice. who
declares it as proper as applause. The
LEGALITY of throwing dollars, bouquets
OF uSdu cats SLoulu navy uSSh poSsSd
upon at the same time. Then the gall
llery would know where il is at.
Since his recent recent visit to Buffalo
Bills Wild West show, little Prince Ed
ward of Wales, the future king of
England, has appeared to desire moth
ing so much as to be q cowboy. The
subject now occupies all his spare mo-
ments, and with the assistance of his
sister and brothers he has been present.
ing wild west shows of his own of a
more or less realistic character. The
clay pigeons given the young princes by
Buffalo Bill and Johnny Baker take a
prominent part in these representations,
and the guests of the royal household
are occasionally pressed INTO service.
"Jack, dear, when you are gone shall
pine away"
Don't pine away; spruce up"
Life.
Captain Thomas Ryuning. of the Ari-
iona Rangers, with forty of his men
and fifty of the original Roosevelt
Rough Riders, will ride from southern
Arizona to the Grand Canyon, Colo
RADIO, to meet President Roosevelt when
he visits that place. They are going to
give him a huge black bear for a play
thing, in token of their esteem.