Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-11
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last SUbudy. VIII COME lDHlOT
, row. Several hours We're consumed il
!. bapusing the new recruits in nearb,
, creek Sunday afternoon.
Another Tribute.-''Neyer until now.
: said Mr.. Arlington Sewbnrbs, who ha,
2 spent the afternoon hoeiHg in the gar.
den, have / realized the full force o
that painting called The Man With the
. Hoe" Baltimore American.
Down at Deep River the newspaper
: has made an effective campaign
: against public and unbridled horseshoe
pitching. and now the Sonlers News in.
, sists that the merchants of that village
, quit playing mumblepeg on the side.
walks. Seems like things are getting
mighty stringent out IN the smaller
towns.
Any objections to my smoking
here?" asked the extensively cheerful
man, as the vessel gave another disqui-
citing lurch.
None" replied the pale chap in the
tsteamer chair, "here-or hereafter!'
Cincinnati Commerc,al- Tribune.
The Waterloo Courier. whose stand
pat predictions should enable 1t to
appreciate fully the Cousins speech,
says of t.: Congressman Cousins Is
i deserving of the highest eulogium for
his magnificent defense of protection,
pure and undefiled. before the repub-
lican state convention and his scathing
arrangement of the apos,ates stalking
along between the lines of republican
protection and democratic free trade.
He unfrocked the heretics before all
Israel and the sun. His charming ora
torical ability never served a better
purpose. He championed the repub-
ilican party at a moment when defend
ers OF the ancient faith were needed"
Now who was the congressman skin
ining?"
A gang of boys and young men stayed
up all night at Stratford to tear down
the big American flag owned by the
town and all smaller flags that had
| been hung out on July 4. A heavy fine
and week or two in Jail would teach
/ these young rioters the power of the
law those flags represent.
| In the face OF the low wages for
teachers there seems no lack of school,.
ma'ams in Kossuth county. where the
normal institute opened with the larg-
est first day attendance ever recorded.
| There were EOS enrolled on the first day
and 239 on the second.
! The United States pension office In.
Des Moines received vouchers for near
lily $2.000.0o0 to be paid to Mexican vet
Grams and old soldiers in Iowa and
| Nebraska.
There was young girl from Marquette
Who purchased a pug for puette;
But alas, and alack,
It sat on the track,
And the girl is lamenting it yuette.
The Tyre.
The Register and Leader having re-
ferred to Walter Wellman as the real
author of the Iowa idea" the Humboldt
independent takes Issue with that pa
per and declares "the editor of the
Register and Leader is too modest. The
editor of the Independent. heard Har-
vey Ingham preaching this same doc
trine to one Steve Howard in the spring
OF 1854. while on trip of ranlbles about
the city of New Orleans Harvey is
more entitled to the credit of It's dis
covery than anybody"
"a gentleman should always treat a
lady in a gentlemanly manner de-
-clares a New York country paper at the
opening of an item which Is funny
enough to make you scream in spite of
its seriousness. But this" continues
the editor. "is not the kind Of treat
ment the editors wife received last
Monday evening at the hands Of the
dentist who Is here for short time. !
While suffering with severe toothache
she went to him to have the tooth ex-
tracted and he refused t. do it simply |
TO spite us on account OF little trou- I
BILE regarding some job work during |
the time of the kaw river flood Had |
1t been our tooth which was doing the |
aching and he refused to pull it, the
matter would be different, but to make
some one else suffer on oar account was
anything but gentlemanly act on his
part"
A Lansing Iowa. man has $4,000 in
vested In clamshels and doesn't care a
clam how high peral button prices go.
Mile. Sarah Broido, young lady
doctor, has, it is reported from Mar
settles, obtained professional engage
ment on board a steamer plying be-
tween that city and Algiers. The cir
cumstance is noted. as Mile. Broido is
the first French "docteuresse" who has
been engaged on board ship. Hitherto
ships doctors had 1t all their own way;
but they have now to face the compe-
tition of the doctoress. Already Mile.
Broidos example is being followed, and
two others of her sex are applying for
medical berths on other steamers reg
istered at the port of Marseilles.
A Philadelphia genius. according to
the Record. has invented an article
which will simplify the abors of man
kind. II have patented rubber stamp
said the inventor that will
be Of use to newspaper writer's and to
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