Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-05
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
1t would be unusual to have a week
pass without big bank robbery.

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| Despite the fact that many of the
coal carrying railroads have announced
that fuel has been given the preference
over all but perishable freight for sew
eral weeks, there is not now in Chicago.
| or on track within days reach of the
! city, more than a ten days supply of
coal, according to the Tribune.
| Let the billiards. come They can't
last long for winter is almost gone.
| General Superintendent Sanborn OF
the Boston s. Maine railroad, has for
hidden card playing for money on his
trains. To him gambling is no worse
| in one place than another.
| The latest scheme for ST. Paul is to
make that city the worlds rice market,
| it being mooted by James j. Hill. the
railway magnate. It is proposed to
build mills for preparing the Japanese
| crop, which new steamships will bring
at the rate Of 1000 car loads monthly.
Up to date noone has explained why
Quay should be SO greatly interested
| in the statehood bill.
This is the age of cheap dentistry
cheap that is to say in comparison with
the prices which once prevailed. says
the New York Sun, which adds: "The
visit to the dentist was an excursion
formerly dreaded as much for the af-
termath that came by mail as for the
physical discomfort that the visitor Was
certain to undergo. But the increase
in the number Of good dentists during
recent years has made II no longer pos
| sible for any OF them to charge large
sums for ordinary services. Some OF
| the long established dentists, who
stand toward their patients in the same
| light as family physicians. are still able
| to impose the old time fees. But their
number is small and growing smaller
every year. One dentist of long stand
| Ing said the other day that the fees his
colleagues could charge had decreased
| by at least 20 per cent In the last fif-
teen years. altho there had not been any
noticeable decline in the character of
the attention that patients received.
improved while the compensation for Il
has grown cheaper"
The canning and pickle factories in
many an Iowa town as we'll as tho
creameries offer an opportunity for
| 500 land to earn fair income on it's
price IL the owners will but raise the
products demanded.
| Prohibitionists will mourn over ver-
mont, which is so thirsty after fifty
years of prohibition that it has decided
| to adopt license local option law; but
| it has a string attached to the statute,
| and may jerk it back If the legislature
SO desires before 1906. This will give
1T time to repent or grow more decided
in it's license views.
Mrs. Julia A. Carney, who wrote Lit
tie Drops Of Water" ETC., is still living
| She will be so years old the coming
April, and it is proposed that children
| be invited to contribute each a cent for
testimonial to be presented to her.
| The proposition to carve new state
out of portions of Montana and North
Dakota, to be called Montague, will not
be acceptable to the people of the ma
ton. AS a general policy such work
has more Objectionable than desirable
| features.
If the shippers of Iowa who are
kicking because freight trains run
slower than they did would turn their
wrath toward the elimination of double
charges for local freight when carried
over two different roads to an equitable
mileage basis they would receive the
support Of the entire business interests
Of Iowa.
The cheapest method of transporta-
! ton In. the world is that by Chinese
iunks that are dragged up and down
their winding rivers by strings of
| sweating men, who are paid only 8
cents a day for their work, and have to
paw their board out Of that small sum.
Next in cheapness to transportation by
Junk is transportation by camel train.
This method is used in distributing
coal. Great numbers of Monaghan cam
els. led by string thru their pierced