Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-21
Topics Of the Times

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! Because the T.-R. has suggested that
| the next governor and executive coun-
Gil will have to do with railway as
sessments the Ninton Eagle rebukes it
saying: Its slender threat is the rail-
roads, and if it fails it will fall. Why
wouldn't it be a good idea for the Mar
shalltown paper to broaden out little
and edit itself upon broader lines.
Hero worshipping and editing itself on
narrow lines is killing the paper and
worrying the heart of the editor In
view OF the facts this is so good ajoke
that the editor would let the brethren
enjoy his laugh with him.
| The Mapleton Press is one of the
county weeklies that may justly lay
claim to the much abused phrase
| fearlessly edited" Its latest issue an
| nounces that it will begin what the
Press terms a strenuous collection
campaign" by giving every notorious
delinquent a dollars worth of adver-
Using for every dollar he owes. I'VE
| will take each name and advertise it
in our own way, and before we are done
with it, that name will be pretty we'll
known turnout the state" declares the
editor.
The wife of a massachusetts, man
who earns SIP a week has been granted
$40 a week as alimony and the news
papers are wondering how he will man.
age to pay it, Judging from the ca
pacity CT Il number of s12 Il week mea
to live at a 500 Il month rate, it may
not be Impossible for the Massachu-
sets man to work his way out.
measure that is expected to pass
the Kansas legislature gives women
The right to vote in presidential cleo
tons. This ought to give Mary Ellen
a new lease of life.
He had loved and lost. Never
again" he sighed. Il shall never love
again"
"oh yes you WILL" rejoined the
lleartless beauty.
Never again. he repeated, I'm go
ing to turn over a new leaf and save
money" News.
Old friends to greet, old wood to
burn, old books to read, but no more
old fashioned winters, if you please.
The increase of over $2,62s,OOO in the
national bank note circulation since
January 1, bringing the total to $780,
422,853, illustrates the fact that the
banking system is no longer decadent,
but growing. The recent increase is
supposed to be due to the release by the
treasury of s9,O0O,000 of bonds held as
pledge for public deposits in the banks,
and a further increase is expected
when the whole amount of bonds nam
ed becomes available. The New York
Fiancier estimates that in the next
six weeks further releases of bonds
will tend to swell the bank note cir
culation by as much as $20,000,000
Successful removal Of patients
stomach seems to offer the hope that
improved surgery may offer a refuge
from new breakfast foods.
In an eastern city man died in a
barber shop while waiting to be shaw
ed. But then, he probably entered
the shop late in life.
If the weather of the past two weeks
We're the usual thing it would be easy
to unerstand why the almanac makers
allow only twenty-eight days to the
month of February.
The French telephone service has just
accorded to the public one of those lit
tie amenities of civilization which
might, with obvious advantage, be ex-
tended turnout the world. In every
public office there will henceforth be
hung white linen handkerchief,
treated with a chemical solution, with
which every person can cleanse and
disinfect the plate or tube before using
it. If he will only do SO after breath
ing into it himself for several minutes,
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chiefs are renewed daily.
While President Roosevelt may dine
safely in Little Hungary, or walk
thru Washington on foot in safety, if
he chooses, Nicholas covers behind his
guarded stone walls listening for the
explosion of the bombs that destroy
his officers.
Notwithstanding the so-called ar
NOR trust and the alleged evils OF a
protective tariff, it is interesting to
learn that the United States pays less
for it's armor plate than any other ma
ton While France pays Sab a ton
for special plates and $5S9.12 for hard
faced armor plate of the heaviest kind.
and Germany pays from 1923 to So4.
a ton, and Japan and Italy still more.
the United States, by the recent bid