Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-16
urng Timer puhlar 3narsha11nn1 a 4hursdu anae 1904

for the use of it during the convention
period 1t will furnish the buildin!
with cots, and each delegate or visito
TO the convention, by paying $l.S5 VI
addition to the regular rate, will get
with his ticket. a coupon, insuring hin
a place to sleep turnout the convention
In view of the fact that securing
/ place to lodge is the thing that worries
visitors TO big conventions more than
railroad tickets or something to ca
and drink. it would appear that tbs
Maple Leaf has conceived an excep-
! tionally happy thought. At any rate
/ it is reported to have gathered in most
of the Des Moines delegation.
/! Mason City is holding carnival
/ not having learned that carnivals are
back numbers. Mason City should get
start a chautauqua. Then things would
| liven up in Mason City.
Readers of the war news will have
noticed one or two references to the
fact that timed meats for the Russian
troops are prepared by a process
which enables the contents of each tin
TO be served hot, without fire. This
boon is secured by having the ordinary
tins filled With food .jacketed' in pat
ent tins. The patent tin contains wat
er, together with a chemical mixture.
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raised to the boiling point in ten min
utes or quarter of an hour. All that
it is necessary to do when it is desired
to heat the food is to puncture the top
of the patent tin, the chemical mixture
being thereby forced into the water,
which soon begins TO boil.
The published pictures of Joseph
Choate. the forthcoming successor to
Attorney General Knox, have sug-
gestion of Mr.. Bryan about the mouth
and chin. 1t is all on the outside,
however.
Kirby-That man Beatty is making
money hand over fist.
klnck-Why, I heard he put a new
health food on the market. and it failed
to catch on.
kirby-So it did; but he Immediately
put up the stuff In bales, and readver-
tised it as 'Hygienic Horse Bedding"
and it's selling all over the country.
Puck.
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Until about ten years ago the SUBJ
marine cable companies used practic-
ally the whole worlds supply of gut.a
percha, for the reason that, unlike rub
Der, 1t is not affected by salt water.
But when the game of golf became
the fad in Europe, England and the
United States, it was found chat guttn
percha is the only satisfactory ma
terial out of which to make the balls,
and the demand for it increased to
so great an extent that the production
was nearly doubled. The ships from
Straits Settlements, now
bring enormous cargoes of it, and al
England as was imported ten years
ago, the price has advanced about 100
per cent. This. the cable companies
say, is due solely to the manufacture
Of golf balls.
Mr.. Bid you take any money out
IF my pockets last week, dear? I'VE
missed a roll of bills.
Mrs. B.-Yes, Charlie, l did. You
know they say that old bills are so full t
IF bacteria it isn't safe to carry them
1T all; and they were all awfully old |
>nes.
Mr.. B.--And did you sterliize Them
Mrs. B.--I think I did.
Mr.. BLOW?
Mrs. B.-Why, l exchanged them at I
he tailor's for a new spring suit. -
Detroit Free Press.
Late calls him "unsound," the Mar
on Register and Cedar Rapids Repub- /
lean in effect call him a oh old /
oggy." Payne says he's a great old !
nan, but impractical and the
iawkeye keeps on saying nothing. One
would think from the nature of the
arguments that John A. kasson was
Cummins man.