Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-11
Topics Of the Times

The Pennsylvania road is trying te
catch the men who have caused q
number of wrecks. Some one should
put it next to the offices of its principal
4 officials and let the detectives make
a haul
Hearst is to have a Jefferson dinner
Poor old Mr.. Jefferson seems to have
1 troubles of his own almost equal to
those OF Roosevelt.
England picked up the snug sum of
50 millions thru death duties last year.
Annexed to the United States, Cuba
| would grow into statehood in a dec
ade. Left to herself, she will be leased
| by threatened revolution and cursed
with ignorance while zine and the
mestizo elasts
! The Waterloo Reporter has arranged
for new home in a $4,000 building,
a move that shows how progressive
ness and prosperity join hands.
Next to an interurban road in value
is a good hard highway, "navigable"
in all seasons. How many Iowa cities
are agitating for a mac.ldam road or
two? A half dozen such roads would
of a system of agricultural trunk lines.
They are worth money ard should find
financial encouragement from the BUSH
ness interests of the town as well as
from the farmers.
Now an inventive genius has dis
covered a way to photograph the
breath Does this mean there shall
be no more. cakes and ale and an utter
absence of ginger for married men?
What is a mollycoddle, pa?
My son, it is man
Who ne'er makes good, as all men
should,
But does the best he can"
In spite of the early spring the fruit
crop has been only twice destroyed by
the newspaper correspondents.
Possibly depending on the promises
of the boosters club, the government
will make the new postoffice building
at Des Moines 40 per cent bigger than
1T intended.
If, as reported from Washington,
where a great deal of Iowa political
news, most of which isn't so. is orig
mated Governor >Cummins wants to
pe president, there is vast number Of
Iowa people who will agree with him.
When the influence Of the governor
upon legislation approved and de-
manded by the common voters of Iowa
is considered, and his public character
analyzed, Cumn1ins' stature looms to
height.
The legislature that has dissolved
was man high. Let's elect another
like it, if we can.
If so-calied tainted money" is to be
refused by churches anil colleges as
not being of the sort to he used in the
promotion of religious and educational |
works, to what purposes may it be
applied ?-Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
1t might be used in future cam
raigns to carry close counties against
Cummins.
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The new Des Moines daily Tribune
starts off with a good advertising pat
ronage and promise to keep things
out of the paper"
The first woman federal attorney is
May Grace Quakenbos OF the Peoples
law firm in New York, formerly of the
Legal Aid society. She was appointed
BY United States District Attorney
Henry L. Stimson to act as a special /
assistant United States district attor-
ley in the prosecution of a man
charged with having conducted bu-
reau for the purpose of sending ignor-
ant foreigners, under the promise Of
nigh wages, into the lumber and tur-
oentine camps of the south, where
hey We're held in practical slavery.
There died in Washington Catholic
few days ago nun who hal
aiken the holy VOWS after she had re-
used the hand of Richard Mansfield,
he actor They had beer sweethearts
or years and it is said that for while
hey were engaged. Persons who knew
Wa chfu gtnn daclIra that shall