Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-29
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| Just when you begin saving for the
winter supply of anthracite the man
with the ice bill calls and rent on the
electric fan falls due.
Englands latest and biggest battle
skip will cost s7,500,0Oo. Her tonnage
lis 1850. which is but a small fraction
greater than that of two American
battleships under construction. To the
soft voice and the big stick add one
long pocketbook.
| The market for corn has been very
! strong on reports of a decrease in the
large portion of the entire area. AS to
reports of the crop, they are as various
as the people who furnish them. In
the words of one close observer, we may
sum up: Corn is good color every
where, but in all my experience l have
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska as they are
this year. 1t would take a man thirty
days with an airship to get anywhere
near an accurate estimate of condi-
tons.
Fort Dodge is proud over trainload
of Asiatic freight valued at 100000
which passed thru the city over the I'LL
nois Central That's nothing to what
happens in Marshalltown every day
when mother passes along the street
wheeling a perambulator freighted with
an eighteen-pou baby she wouldn't
take 100000 for.
The Radcliffe Signal presents the
best evidences of prosperity In Its new
clothes. The copy which came to tht
exchange editors table last week was
a manifest Improvement in make UP
and Typography.
A Cedar Rapids paper tells a story
must be more than usually lonesome
this summer. One of its citizens found
Story county man, with pretty good
team. wagon with canvas top. some
blankets, fishing pole, a rifle and
sundry other articles. The Story coun
get back on the first train. He sold
the Cedar Rapids man the whole out
fit, horses, wagon, rifle, fishing pole and
blankets, for $40 cash in hand. All of
which shows that 1t is better to live in
Story county on dinner of herbs than
remain attluent in Cedar Rapids.
The Dedham Gazette. with S. l.. Hill
as editor. is new venture in the Iowa
newspaper field.
According to Wall street corre-
spondent, no one dares to say, or even
TO think that Mr. Morgan or his firm is
in the slightest jeopardy. Mr.. Morgan
is regarded as the man who made
mighty commissions out of mighty pro-
motions. He gathered his millions by
making securities for other people to
buy, not by buying securities himself.
Securities he has by the millions, but
he got most of them for his labor in
their manufacture. The house stands
upon the firmest foundations. Behind
it there are millions upon millions of
solid gold dollars, in the banks and Sc
cure in the vaults that center round
the house itself. 1t is safe to say that
not a trenor of the commissions that
have shaken Wall street has reached|
the inner office where Mr.. Morgan holds
his council. He has been disturbed,
but it has been In an impersonal way.
His securities have shrunk in value, but
that matters nothing unless he is COM
PEELED to realize upon them. and Mr..
Morgan is not selling stock.
In 1900 there were 800 labor unions
in Iowa with a membership of 26.06S.
Now there are $50 unions with Il MEM
bership of nearly $4,000. OF these vari-
Gus unions there are 1853 affiliated with
the State Federation of Labor and TO
with the American Federation. Iowa
is now one of the thoroughly organized
states.
Casey-ORafferty is sick MAIN.
He has heart complaint an consoomp-
ton.
Murphy-Sure. consoomption's bad
disease.
Casey-It Is thot same; but it's slow.
He'll die av the heart throuble a year
afore he he'll die av the loong throuble.
Kansas City Journal.
The Davenport Times tells of a grad
uate of the State University of Iowa
who is this summer working as an
ordinary miner at Oskaloosa. He is
earning money with which to begin a
course of study in medicine. His name
is Edward A. Carter. and he is col
ored boy who exceptin, Booker I.
has the honor of being the
only colored miner to be graduated
from a college or university.
"A two line want ad can run two days
in the T.-R. for twenty-five cents and
81, 900 people will read 1t.
The Washington state fish commits
sion reports that fish can be frozen
solid and thawed back to life, If not ex-
posed to the sun or allowed to get more
than twelve to fourteen degrees below
the freezing point. Salmon from the
Pacific coast could be frozen and trans
ported to the Atlantic coast and resus-
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