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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
WOMEN ON THE SIDEWALKS.
M,


Why don't women turn out when
you meet them on the sidewalk? Did
you ever stop to ask that question ?
Have you noticed the stolid indiffer-
ence of the average woman to the
rights of man to his half of the side
walk? Well, 1t is a fact, nevertheless,
that the average woman is either too
stubborn or does not know enough to
give a man half of the sidewalk when
she meets him. Time and again have
we seen women and girls meet men
on the sidewalk when the streets
were muddy and the women or girls
would push right along without budg-
ing an inch to let the man have his
share of the walk. with the result
that the unhappy male creature
would be compelled to spoil his shine
in the mud. The average man is
chivalrous to woman, but when he is
forced into the mud or compelled to
otherwise aMogate all his rights to
the public walks by some naughty or
Indifferent female, his chivalry takes
a terrible drop and he wishes he could
give her a push into the same mire
that has spoiled his shoes. Next
time you men meet a couple of
women or lone one either, just take
notice and see if this article is not
about true and we are sorry to say it
is just as true Of Manson women and
girls as any other
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
Topics Of the Times

Mr.. Hughes needed only to win to
be hailed as a presidential possibility.
Ferdinand L. Barnett, the negro
newly elected judge of the municipal
court in Chicago, is receiving threaten
ing letters and warnings to resign.
Barnett, however, says he has no in
tention Of handing in his resignation.
Reports from Spirit Lake indicate
that Senator Funk has seen the worst
of his long illness and is on the road
tocon1plete recovery. He will spend
the winter in a milder climate, tho "it
is beautiful fall at Spirit Lake and
the fishing is fine"
Gen. Fred D. Grant has favorite
story illustrating his famous fathers
aptness i'm summarizing a situation in
few words. He says that Mrs. Grant
once asked her husband to discharge
their old coachman, who had again
made a botch of some simple errand.
''Well, mother" replied the hero Of
Appomattox, "if John could do every
thing you wanted him to do, and do it
right, he would not have to be our
coachman."
Father Bernard Vaughan, whose on
slaught on the English Smart set" is
attracting SO much attention, has
plenty of fumor. Once, at Trinity
College, Cambridge, he was studying
Holbein's picture of Henry VIII. "What
would you do, as a Jesuit, if his ma
jesty stepped out of the canvas?" ask
ed a friend. Father Vaughan replied
promptly: 81 should request the la
dies to leave the ROOM
The failure of the Des Moines Capt.
tai Ito refer to the balmy beauty Of the
season since November Z is in nowise
remarkable.
One of the notable features of the
November Atlantic is an article by Da-
vid C. Brewer, of the United States
supreme court, on "The Ideal Law
yer" The title itself suggests a novel
point or view, for we, have got out of
the habit, late years, of expecting law
yers to have much business with ideals.
Justice Brewer thinks otherwise. His
forty-three years of legal experience,
seventeen of which have been spent
upon the bench of our highest judici-
airy, have given him plenty of oppor-
tulity to know all the ms and outs of
court practice, but he has not lost his
belief in the profession-in its sense
of honor, in its patriotism, and it's in
teerity. If lawyers are really such a
bad set as they are painted he re-
marks, it is singular fact that in the
public life of this country they have
been the all-conspicuous factor-yet,
no one denies that our public life has
been of the highest order. A sane and
optimistic view like Justice Brewers is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
TINE uNspEAKABLE SMOKING CAR.

Saturdays press dispatches tell of Sc
rious and perhaps fatal injury to an
| Iowa priest shot down while attempt
| Ing to stop an affray between negroes
that began in poker game on c., M.
| & st. p train, and ended in promis-
cuous shooting that endangered the
lives of other passengers. The priest
acting the office of peace maker, was
shot in the head and lies In a Sioux
City hospital awaiting death.
The smoker on most trains corre-
spends to the red light districts OF cit
les. 1t is ill-kept, filthy, redolent with
bad odors and loud with profanity and
vile language. Poker and other gam
bling are common Plain DRINKS are
incidental, and the raconteur of OBJ
scene stories seems always at his
worst and nastiest in the smoking car.
It is no respecter of persons or OF any,
thing else. Originally intended for the
convenience of decent people with I'M
fortunate habits, 1t has become the
resort of that portion of the travelling
public that feels out Of place and Ill
at ease In the respectable environment
of "tIfe day coach" Every hobo labor
err feels his inherent right to monopo-
lie that humanized hog car known as
the smoker on the ordinary passenger
train. That the priest was shot is not
astonishing. The wonder is that more
people are not killed in drunken rows
and poisoned by tobacco juice on
smoking cars.
Some one should have police powers
on passenger trains. The railway
com panies should issue strict orders
against gambling, booze and riotous and
vicious conduct on any car In the trains
operated by them for the accomm oda-
ton of the public, and the train men
should be instructed to enforce them.
1t is scarcely enough to say, keep out
of the smoker and you won't be Of
Tended or hurt" Every man who trav-
els has had his choice between stand
ing up in an aisle or in the vestibule
or taking his chance in the smoker.
The smoking car should be reformed or
discontinued.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12


Editor Times Republican,: I read
with "a great deal of interest of the lee
ture delivered by Rev. A. Il. kepford on
"The White Plague" and was glad to
hear that large audience came out to
hear this important subject delivered
from the pulpit. In the speakers
enumeration of the causes Of tubercui
osis l was surprised that he did not
mention the danger of infection to the
human family by eating meat from
tuberculosis animals. This has long
been recognized fact by the medical
and veterinary professions and is one
that will have to be considered when a
state or association undertakes to
eradicate or suppress tuberculosis.
I was glad to note that he mentioned
the danger of using milk from tuber-
cuosiS COWS, but as the flesh from such
an animal Is so much more dangerous
l feel that 1t should also be called to
the attention of the public. / wonder
how many of your readers know of
cases where several members of a fam
lily have become victims of the dis
ease. Several of which have died and
others either by their power of resist
ance or change of locality or occupa-
ton, have been able to combat it. In
such cases the family has been brand
ed as "consumptives," supposed to have
been inherited from some relatives. In
a great many of these cases the cause
of this unfortunate condition could
have been traced back to the time
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12

= Plagued
when the old family COW or the pet
pig" had been slaughtered and eaten
by the innocent family No one would
knowingly eat the flesh of swine af
fected with cholera.
Why not? Cholera is comparative
ly Il harmless disease to the human
family. 1t is rejected because cholera
among hogs runs such rapid and fatal
course. Yet who, if they had to choose
between the two would not rather be
stricken with a rapid disease than to
endure a long and tortuous one, and
one that would in time be as surely
fatal as the deadliest poison. This
is the case with the majority of tuber-
culosis victims. tuberculosis generals
ly runs such a slow course in food
producing animals that its presence is
rarely detected until time of slaugh-
ter. Even then it requires an expert
to recognize it. On account of this
fact meat should not be used for food
unless it is we'll cooked. or passed
upon by one who Is competent to say
1t is free from the germs of tubercu-
losis.
1 send this for publication If the ed
itor will publish 1t without the name
of the writer. AS l have had exper-
fence in the large slaughter houses
write this from personal experience
hope it will prove worthy of your at
tention and will be given space in your
paper. Respectfully yours,
AN EN-MEAT INSPECTOR.
Rawlins. Wyo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
BUSINESS FEATURES.

/. Business experienced the customary
interruption during election week, but
more permanent retarding Influence
was the inadequate supply of freight
cars and labor. Many industries are
severely handicapped by traffic delays,
raw materials and fuel coming to the
factories in most unsatisfactory
manner. In other cases there is idle
ma chinery because hands cannot be Sc
cured, despite the high wages offered.
This difficulty threatens to reduce the
lumber cut materially. Several strikes
are threatened, and one railway sys-
tenn alone has advanced wages to the
extent of million dollars monthly.
Retail trade is well maintained by low
er temperature in some sections of the
country, and the full employment of
labor at all points, while wholesale
business in holiday goods is very
| heavy. Manufacturing returns show
| unequalled prosperity in the iron and
steel industry, footwear factories are
busy on spring lines, and textile mills
are we'll employed, altho the decline in
raw material has temporarily checked
purchases in primary markets for cot
ton goods Dun's Index Number of
| commodity prices proportional to con-
sum ption on November / showed an
advance of $1O6.6S3, against $1O5.235 a
month previous, and $103S53 a year
ago. Railway earnings for the month
OF October We're 9.S per cent larger
than last year, and foreign commerce
at New York alone for the last week
showed gains of s1,239,417 in exports
and $1,S6s,S45 in imports a.so compared
gent, curtailing activity in securities.
Pork exchanges at New York for the
week were 80 per cent larger than last
year. while at other leading cities the
gain averaged TO per cent.
Chicago.-The volume of production
and distribution is not diminished and
new demands are heavy in leading in
dustries, especially for raw material,
while there is a steady expansion in
the principal retail lines and further
active dealings in jobbing merchan-
disc. Recorders frequently appear in
dry goods and footwear for western
points. Advices from country mer-
chants indicate that sales thus far
have equalled expectations and the re-
duction Of heavy weight apparel i'm
proves with the colder weather. Ship
ping rooms are active in various lines,
and extra efforts to get out holiday
goods are being made earlier than usu-
al to anticipate delays on the railroads
Boston.-Shirting prints and indigos
are in good demand and the activity in
seasonable merchandise is quite gen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
Teddy Is Coming.


When Teddy lands in Panama therel
be grand crusade,
A sweeping up and cleaning out along
the esplanade;
They'll scrub the old machinery, o:
cart it off by night.
While everybody shouts to everybody
else In sight
.Man, can't we have this place smell
any sweeter?
Take out the trash and make every
heater?
Heavens above! Kill that doggoned
mosquito!
Teddy is coming to see 2"
When Teddy lands in Panama they'll
talk him most to death
Explaining difficulties, till they have to
stop for breath;
They'll have each other working from
Culebra to the shore.
And everybody'll do the things he's LETT
undone before.
Here? He isn't at Colon yet, is he
Rushing so fast makes me faint ike
and dizzy;
Never ,nind-but for the Lords sake
get busy!
Teddy is coming to see?'
When Teddy lands in Panama thereli
be lot Of work, .
They'll be afraid to hang around, lney y
be afraid to shirk:
He's just as apt to say, you, there!'
Che wouldn't care fig)
"Just hand me down that shovel, anu
I'll show you how to dig!"
"say-iust suppose the man flies in a
fury?
He's his own judges and lawyers ana
jury;
from Missouri!
Teddy is coming to see!
Stuart McLea4a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12

| eral Collections in this, as in all JOB
bling branches of trade, are excellent
Cotton goods are firm, with desirable
lines in small supply and tending up
ward. the mills being very busy. The
demand of the textile workers at Fail
River for higher wages has not had
serious consequences as yet. A better
tone to the wool goods market is re-
ported, and many mills have received
good duplicate orders, WorSteds and
the better tone to the wooy goods mar
ket is reported, and many mills have
received good duplicate orders, wors-
teds and the better class of woolens in
both mems and women's wear showing
most activity.
phia.-TeXtle manufacturers
tons have been slow with manufac-
turers Of mems and women's wear, but
sales are fairly good in mems and boys
clothing. The season was late with
manufacturers of suits and cloaks, but
they are now rushed with orders, most
of which are for immediate delivery.
Mfnneapolis.--A satisfactory bust
iness is reported by retailers, tho warm
weather retards sales of seasonable
goods. Jobbers in practically all lines
are doing a good business. orders and
shipments running ahead of last year.
Country collections are still slow, but
city merchants are paying better than
usual. Trade in white pine is steadily
expanding. country orders are coming
in more freely and shipping facilities
are satisfactory. The saving season is
drawing to a close one mill is already
shut down, and indications point to
further closings within a week or two.
Stocks on hand are about equal to last
year. assortments are complete as a
rule, and prices are firm. Receipts
were 4,36S,000 feet, shipments 6,161,000
st. Paul.-Mild weather has retarded
distribution of seasonable merchandise.
and supplementary orders are still
withheld, but sales for spring delivery
are large, exceeding last year in dry
goods, mems and women's wear, hats
and gloves. Footwear and harness
manufacturers report large volume OF
new business for future delivery with
machinery fully engaged. The fur
trade is larger than ever. Millinery
demand is good and satisfactory
business is reported in jewelry and no.
itions. In wholesale drugs and chemi-
Gals conditions are unchanged. Hard
ware and groceries are active and ma
chinery and builders suppliesl are in
steaedy demand. Collections are only
fair and not up to expectations.
ST. Louis.-Mail orders for immedi-
ate shipment are Of liberal proportions,
while orders from travelling statesmen
for future delivery are very large,
greater than for the corresponding pc
Rod last year.
Kansas Cfty.-There is no cessation
of activity among either jobbers or
manufacturers and retail trade cont5n-
ues normal, altho the mild weather has
a tendency to retard it to some extent.
Mail orders are quite numerous.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12

OF the people, but Of all OF them. Re-
publicans or democrats friends or late
opponents, in my official conduct I
want to recognize no such distinctions,
and on the other hand l do not want
those who did not happen to choose
me, to stand aloof in an attitude Of
hostile criticism.
The only honor or satisfaction that
this office can hold for me is to serve
the people well enough to earn their
approval. recognize that farming
and stock raising are by far the largest
industries Of this county and to those
interests the first loyalty and allegi-
ance of legislator of right belongs. I
want those interests above all others
to give me their confidence, and I want
my votes ON such issues as affect them
to be so cleary inspired by honest and
friendly motives as to entitle me to
that confidence.
/ know that shall be closely
watched, and do not shrink from
that. / rather welcome it as the only
opportunity of justifying myself with
such as have doubted me. Not that it
is possible to please all the people all
the time, because they are never en-
tireiy agreed among themselves; but
on matters of vital Importance the line
of cleavage between what is right and
What is wrong is pretty clearly mark
ed, and man who is on friendly terms
with his conscience need not go far
astray unless he chooses to.
AS the first young man who has held
this Office for great many years, I
feel special responsibility, not only
on my own account but for the sake of
the many young men who have had
faith in me. In behalf Of the young
men of the county ask a fair and
an impartial judgment, a judgment
which will be ready to approve an hon
est and a fearless record If such can
achieve. PAUL E. STILLMAN.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
THE FACTORY ERA
1890
Fort Dodge Messenger

Fort Dodge MeSSenger.J
Mr.. Jesse Thomas, Of Fort Dodge
has been experiencing some strange
sensations during the past five months
and he is prepared to think that the
growth Of some parts of this country
has been as by magic.
Forty years ago Mr.. Thomas LEFT
Ohio as a man thirty-five years old
He came to Iowa and has seen the re-
markable advancement of this state
from the time when raw, prairie land
was the common condition until now
to the one hundred dollar mark In
value per acre.
But while Mr.. Thomas has been see
ing this development here strange and
wonderful progress was going on in
the state of Ohio and this summe,
when he made his first visit back to his
old home he rubbed his eyes with as
constituent
Where before there had been only
farm lands, now thriving towns are
located and where before there were
towns now there are large cities hum
ming with the activities of business
, The state of Ohio has become one of
the busiest and most prosperous COM
monwealths in the nation and is COM
pletely dotted with manufacturing cit
les. 1t is a place where the factory
pay roll makes money circulate in
every channel Of trade = money that
has been brought from every corner OF
the world by the sale of Ohio made
products.
Mr.. Thomas made it his business
after he discovered the cause of Ohios
remarkable growth to inquire Of the
men conducting these. factories If they
We're satisfied to continue to manufac-
ture their products in that state. He
found that there is general interest
among them in the matter of getting
locations farther west, either for the
removal of their establishments or the
operation of branch factories If at
the present time Ohio is more central
for the assembling of raw materials
it is farther away from the western
market which has been created by
the Mississippi river.
This Fort Dodge man comes back to
his home in Fort Dodge more convinc-
ed imam DeIOre LHdL the manufacturing
era must soon open in Iowa and when
that time comes such cities as Fort
Dodge will be accepted as good loca-
lions for factories. The shipping facil-
tiles, raw materials and central loca-
ton in a rich section of the Mississ-
ippi valley will make Fort Dodge re-
ceive favorable attention as soon as
it is demonstrated that Ohio is no
longer to be exclusively "a farming
state, but is to follow the example of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan in
becoming factory state.
Is not that evolution so far along
that the people Of this city would be
justified in already beginning a cam
paign to make known the merits OF
this location to the factory men of the
east?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
MONEY IN HOGS.
TRoIfa peyaille1

About two weeks ago ]. A. McIntire,
living in the west part OF Rolfe. sold
twenty nine hogs that were six months
old, and they averaged 225 pounds and
brought him s3915O. This is no fish
story nor a hog story. but some facts
from real hog raising. March /. 1905,
Mr.. McIrtire bought SOW for $40.
That spring the sow had nine pigs, of
which six We're sows. The twenty
nine just sold were from those sows,
and they have fifty pigs over nine
months old. He sold two male hogs
during the summer for $25, and butch
cred one that weighed 300 pounds.
worth SIS. He sold the old SOW last
fall that weighed 40 pounds and
brought s27, or 81 more than he paid
for her. He now has sold since March
1, 1905. $461.50 worth of hogs and has
the six sows and the fifty pigs left yet
that are worth $500, so that from q. $50
investment amounts to $76150.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12

The democrats in convention would
have been willing to go farther, but
the leaders thought it e&pedient to
say no more than that on the liquor
question
1t is not improbable that the COM
ing session of the legislature will be
more disposed than recent sessions
have been to give the subject the econ
omy consideration. If the democrats
do not take leadership in this matter
they will prove. disappointing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
TALKING BUSINESS.
INT. Vernon Record.1

1t has come to the ears of the editor
of the Record that some of the business
men complain because they say the
Record is hurting the business of the
town. We hope that there is good
grounds for the complaint. The Rec
ord wishes to give it's advertisers good
sented by Cedar Rapids advertisers and
not by local advertisers the merchants
can hope to be injured. But what do
they expect? Do they expect the Rec
ord to sit down and keep out Cedar
Rapids advertisers so that they can
get the benefit? If they do where do
they expect us to come in? 1t would
be all very nice for them. But who
would contribute the funds to pay the
help? No, the fact is some of them
conceived the scheme two years ago, Of
sending copy of the Records COM
petitor free to Record subscribers, thus
rendering it unnecessary for them to
advertise in both papers. In other
words few men tried to kill off the
Record. That is what 1t amounted to.
They didn't succeed, and they will not
succeed. The Record is today carrying
more advertising that 1t ever carried
before, and for every Mt. Vernon ad
that goes out it can get two from Ced-
ar Rapids. But If they bit off more
than they can chew, who do they have
to blame but themselves?
PAUL sTILLAnAN'S FOREWORD.
Jefferson Bee.]
[ suppose there are many who will
expect me to complain of the republic
cans of this county because my major
ity is so small / shall not do it.
There are no bruises and no sore spots
on me. Neither shall / enter into the
question of causes. If had been de-
feated I should have taken pride in
showing myself good loser; should
have been just as loyal republican as
I ever was, and not a whit less inter-
ested in the party because of my per-
sonal eclipse.
AS it is.the only fact I recognize
as important Is that I have been
chosen by something more than half
of the voters of the county. That
have failed to win the confidence of
larger number regret, and the only
way know of to secure that conf
dence now is to show that I am worthy
of it, do not want 10 serve as the
representative of only bare majority
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
SUGGESTED LEGISLATION.
rSioux r,ty .Iourna11


In the last few weeks suggestion
has been made that the time had
come to modify the liquor laws Of the
state. 1t is limited that quiet pledges
to this end have been made. This
may develop into a considerable ques-
ton. The Des Moines convention
gave the matter no consideration
whatever, but the subject was more
or less debated at Waterloo. 1--WE
favor the enactment of such laws, "
the Waterloo platform declares, ''as
shall give to all manufacturers and
jobbers in Iowa the same rights
to ship their products and goods to
all points in Iowa as are now given
by the interstate commerce law to
manufacturers or jobbers in similar
products or goods in other states"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-12
Homo Visitors Excursions to Ohio,
Indiana. Etc.

The Iowa Central will have on sale
October 10Th, special low rate round
trip excursion tickets to points in In
diana, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania,
New York, etc. Return limit thirty
days from date of sale.
Call on agents for particulars or
address A. B. Cults, g. P. and T. A.,
Minneapolis, MINI.