Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-06
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Topics Of the Times

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ! t :
The picking up letter sixty miles
how far word written in season
cyclone season-~will go.
The largest shipment of binder
Irvine that has ever been made by any
manufacturer arrived in Wichita, re-
cars containing 5O7 tons, or 100000
pounds. 1t is estimated that this ship
ment will bind 100000 acres of grain,
and in one continuous length would
encircle the earth at the equator six
times and leave enough to connect
Kansas City with Denver.
A Proportionate Income-Brush-So
Pinxit is painting miniatures? How is
he getting on?
Palette-Oh, he's making miniature
living. -Washington Post.
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A prominent distiller said the other
ddy lIcl Win CNGES etaS r1lSC VI 4 SClIlo
per bushel in corn, the price of whisky
ought to go up one cent per gallon.
This is tantamount to an admission
that four gallons of whisky are made
from each bushel of corn consumed by
the distillers. With corn at SO cents
ought to be about Is cents or the
price of first class drink. A gallon
retailed brings about SIS. There
seems to be an excellent profit in a
gallon of whisky except to the man
who drinks it and even he should profit
by the figures.
When Germany starts a fight on
American pork chops she will start her
people licking their own.
Three congressional candidates by
the name of Mudd in Maryland sug-
gests the free use of the split log
drag.
A local item in a Cresco paper tells
of workman who injured his eye
badly and was fixed up by DR..
Scripture. AS an illustration of how
times have changed since the days OF
an II" for an eye the modern Scrip
ture will probably charge v.
Her -Cholly- Yaas, she
actually called me clown, don't
y know.
Miss Peppery-R Ridiculous I!
Cholly-Yaas, wasn't it?
Miss Peppery-I should say so. II
she'r ever been to circus she'd know
that it takes man of intelligence to
be a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Press.
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The Pullman Company's dental that
it is common carrier will be accepted
by most people. What the Pullman
Company is really is an accomplish
Of the Pullman porter.
Some men are too stingy to enter
tain an idea.
Mr.. Shaw should not protest too
much that he is not a candidate. A
very respectable number of people are
anxious to take him at his word.
Is this hot enough for your corn:
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During the taking of a religious
census Of the District of Columbia the
past winter" relates representative
from Tennessee, a couple of young
ladies who are engaged in the work
stopped at my home on Capitol Hill,
and when the bell rang it was an
swered by the negro boy I brought
form Tennessee with me. The ladies
asked him:
".Will you please tell me who lives
here?
".Yessum; Mistah Johnsing,' was
the answer.
Its he Christian?'
"'No, Ma'am. He's er scongresman
from Tennessee
In response to petitions from the
Taunton and Buzzards Bay the Taun-
ton and Pawtucket and the Western
les regarding the right to do a general
freight business the State Railroad
Commission has required each COM
pany to file a definite general descrip-
ton of the kind of merchandise it de-
sires to carry, and of the manner ia
which it proposes to conduct the bust
nehh 1t is pointed out that the trans
portation of certain kinds of freight
upon street cars at any aud all hours
of the day. would be a serious inter-
ference with other uses and enjoyment
Of public ways. Several companies
have requested unrestricted authority
to carry freight Of every kind coupled
with the right to refuse freight when
it seemed to the management to be un-
desira BILE. The commissioners hold
that it was not intended that the rail-
ways sholdd have such an opportunity
for the practice of discrimination.