Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-18


Freeman Tribune is rousing regret
turnout the Iowa newspaper field.
Since election the newspapers are
busy telling President Roosevelt just
how long presidential message ought
/ to be.
To the Mason City Globe Gazette
Marshall county seems TO be a soft spot
for the religious fakir. However, the
Gazette notes, while there be many
suckers there is also lively appica-
ton of the law and sooner or later the
frauds turn up in the penitentiary, and
declares the reason of this is that abou;
everybody in that county takes tbs
Times Republican. and that makes II
easy for the people to keep tab on inn
posters.
Altgelds mantle appears 10 have fall
len upon Clarence Darrow.
In five years the number of apples
exported from this continent to Europe
has increased from twenty five thous-
and to more than a million and half
barrels
Forty-five thousand homeless chill
dren have been sent TO Canada from
Great Britain and put in good homes
during the past thirty-ifive years. Last
year for every child thar was sent there
were five applications on file with the
societies engaged in the work of res
cuing the waits. Consequently British
philanthropists, who know how care
fully the children are looked after in
their new homes, think that the mum
Der sent from the overcrowded cities
to the spacious colonies could be in
creased with profit to the empire as
we'll as to the children and Canada act
as a brooder for the great human in
cubators of the poverty ridden British
cities
A Chicago dispatch relates that the Y.
w. c. A. has unearthed a systematizei
traffic in innocent girls for Immoral
purposes. Country girls are en;iced to
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light work and lured to disreputable
houses where their helIlessness makes
them an easy prey. The country bred
girl who Is approached with offers of
a city position should investigate the
matter thoroughly.
Did Carrie Nation revive Ten
Il, al; a ~,
revive Carrie?
Turkey at 25 cents a pound should
accentuate thankfulness on Nov. &c. |
After all 1t is better to buy turkey at
25 cents and have the job and the mon
ey to pay for it than to be out of work
and money when turkeys are att cents |
in the market. There is an army of
working men in Iowa who have not be- |
gun to turn gray who remember when
a job was scarcer than turkeys are this |
year. If turkeys are high there should
he general Thanksgiving that Jobs are
still roosting low.
The wide spread area over which ty-
the past two years has led the United
States Geological Survey to establish I
as part of its organization fydroeco
nomc section for the purpose of con- |
Quoting systematic investigation of the |
quality OF surface and ground waters
in the United States. While it is not |
purposed that this section shall ente.
the field Of hygienic investigation. the |
economic phase OF the work is correlat- |
ed with sanitation, and hygienic data |
collected In the progress of the work |
will be available on demand of those I
The ordinary sanitary an
alyses will constitute an important part |
OF the analytical work. These determine |
not only such features MS color, turbid- T
ity. and hardness but the amount Of I
matter in the water and IT'S
state of oxidation. These analyses may I
be made OF enormous practical benefit (
to municipalities and to institutions
seeking domestic water supplies. Not |
only may they assist in esta blishing I
standards for drinking water that are
more precise than those prescribed In I
any other branch of water utilization,
but they may aid in the solution of 9TH
err problems.
A red headed man met bald headed /
man on the street one day. The red
headed man said to the bald hea,ed I
man:
.Huh, there don't seem to have been
much hair where you came from
ooh. yes" replied the bald headed
man, there was plenty of hair but
1t was all red. and l wouldn't have 1t.
Magazine.
Every county in Kansas will be rep
resented by booth at an exhibition Of
Kansas products to be given In Chicago
today by the business branch of the
Kansas Equal Suffrage Society. An
auction of Kansas FARMS will be a fea-
ture of the exhibition the proceeds to +
be devoted to the propaganda OF equal
Ii seems as no women pos
sessed of the rustling business quail
fications of this particular society
would make good voters. Not all Kan
sas women are cranks but they APP
pear to be ali rustlers.
Elk Governor Goodell of New Hamp-