Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-10
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Statement of facts by the Marion
Register: When men are idle they
cannot strike
Russia and Japan are each asking
times as much as the mikado. Russia
Is more than four times as far away
from home but she is daily remedylng
that condition.
DR.. Woodbury., commissioner of New
York's street cleaning department,
makes the startling statement that
fully one third of the men employed as
street cleaners In the city of New
York are suffering from tuberculosis
in its advanced stages. No man can
live more than five or six years while
engaged In the work DR. Woodbury's
statistics emphasize the necessity OF
keeping streets clean and wetted down
to prevent distribution of dust that
contains the seeds of incurable dis
eases.
With Mr.. Hearst out OF the way
there would DE little chance for Alton
b. Parker. Mr.. Bryan would never let
Alton b. president.
Davenport claims the Oldest assistant
postmaster in point of service In the
country In the person of Assistant
Postmaster Teele. who has held that
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postoffice for thirty-five years.
Much compliant is being made from
different parts of Iowa Of petty steal
ing from rural mail boxes. A sem
tence OF from three to five years in
government prison is likely to cure the
habit OF meddling with rural mail box
es.
General Kuropatkin's plan of Turing
the Japanese on" seems to be working
beautifully.
Up to the hour of going to press the
very latest version of the Pollock and
Fay diamond robbery stories has fallen
rather fat. 1t has been manifest from
the outset that they were exploited for
political consumption rather than with
view to promoting the ends of justice
and giving Omaha and Nebraska better
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Bee.
The Bee goes to press early. All
the rosewater injected into the noisome
mess of Omaha graft hasn't helped the
smell of 1T to any appreciabla extent.
How do you account for the fact"
asked the doctor. "as shown by actual
investigation that thirty-two out of
every hundred criminals In the country
are left handed?'
That's easy accounted for" said the
professor. The other sixty-efght are
right hande'd."--Chicago Tribune.
Duffy, the worlds champion sprint
err, broke the worlds record for IS
yards, covering that distance in Z 20
seconds--one second faster than the
worlds record, also held by him.
MI. bryan says LIS ueiltoCidtiS party
can get along without New York and
the democratic party of New York are
doing very nicely without Mr. Bryan.
This seems to be case for the Dakota
divorce courts.
Mr.. Green comes from far Ioway.
He wears separate cuffs, SO they say.
He'll stand on his feet
And give ladies his seat
In the cars Why, he's awfully jay!-
Life.
If Mr.. Cleveland would make his
campaign on his platform of poetic IL
cense" for fishermen the probabilities
are that he'd carry Tao Hussey.
A little note ON natural history says
fishes usually lie with their noses up
stream. A curious coincidence is that
people with their noses in the direc-
ton Of other peoples business usually
do the very sanle thing.
Badly as they have the marriage
question mixed UP, the Mormons seem
to have solved the hired girl prob
lem.
Feleys Honey and Tar is peculiarly
adapted for asthma, bronchitis and
boarsanaSS r. A Morgan