Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-23
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In round figures Mexico possesses
livestock worth s60,OoO,ooo, not large
value when its area is considered. or
this, nearly s40.000,000 is in cattle.
Waterloo's newspapers are up a.
gainst IT. in securing news from the
court records. Judge Platt, sitting IN
the dual role of lawyer and Judge, caus-
ed to be filed and then withdrew an
answer In civil suit of local interest.
The papers are kicking but Judge Platt
seems to hold the winning card which
he is unwilling to discard into the
hands of the reporters.
According to the calendar Wednes-
day was the shortest day OF the year.
Had 1t been longer Christmas shoppers
would have been shorter still.
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An organ grinders union has been
formed for the avowed purpose of cor
nerinr the output of street music. A
question may arise here as to how
much OF a melody the producer owns
once 1t has been turned loose for the
hurdy-gurdy.
The entire Spanish cabinet resigned
| when asked to pick q wife for King
for
average American woman OF sixty.
| or all out Of the way corners In New
York, it Is, perhaps, in the pawnshops
of the lower east side that one finds
conferred more tragedy than almost
anywhere else. Into this strenuous
neighborhood of Canal street and the
Bowery, land known to comparative
| ely few Of New York's great popula-
ton, Albert Bigelow Paine and Orson
Lowell went and there hobnobbed with
| all manner of quaint characters, to
gain material for the sketch, AT the
Sale of the Unredeemed," which Will be
a feature Of the January Century. Wri-
ter and artist found these pawnbrok-
ers' auctions orderly, businesslike, and
enlivened by occasional bits of humor.
| for the tragedy of the business drops
out of sight here. and the buyers are,
| for the most part, professionals, who
have been relieving the pawnbroker of
his unredeemed pledges for years. Mr..
Paine's work is always worth the read
ing: and "At the Sale Of the Unre-
deemed" is certain to be an entertain
ing and illuminating narrative OF an
unfamiliar phase of city life.
| Supposedly reliable information has
| 1t that the New Jersey mosquito Is as
a dwarf compared with the larger bulk
OF his Panama cousins. A brigade of
delving mosquitoes captured and train
ed might help to solve the canal prob
lem.
Copy Reader: "How about this Pan
anna canal story?"
Chorus Of Voices: "Cut it!"
"Why didn't you stop for that man ?"
inquired the passenger on the front
platform.
Because" said the motorman, with
metallic ring in his voice, "he used
to run one Of these cars when had
Job of clerkin' downtown. I'm getting
even with him by gursh!" - Chicago
Record Herald.
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tain county have voted to allow a
chicken show to be held in their court
house. II thousand people were ask
ed to guess the county everyone would
select some backwoods, rural district.
but none would think Of Hennepin
county in which is located the city OF
Minneapolis.
Among the county seat weeklies OF
the state the congressional news is
covered the most completely in the
Navada Representative. The entire
editorial department is frequently de-
voted to congressional discussion.
Secretary Wilson says the value of
the agricultural crops Of 1904 would
pay the national debt, and Dubuque
newspaper replies that the farmers
have no intention Of doing it. How
ever, if it is ever paid, the farmers will
come very near doing it.
News is now cabled from St Peters,
burg to the effect that If Port Arthur
is saved the sunken war ships can be
raised. This explains Russian STRAIT
egy. They let the Japs sink their
ships at the only spot in eastern wat
ers where the Russians have any hope
of ever finding them again. The world
will wonder what good place they have
selected for the Baltic fleet.
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