Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-17

5 call for third term will be ad
!, mitted
Booker T. Washington's summe
home will be three miles from tina
of Roosevelt's. 1t is the old home o
an aristocratic PATRON family. Fort.
years bring about great changes whei
a negro dimes with a president ant
leases the home of aristocrats.
49,
Sixty thousand messages go ove1
the London telephone lines daily. JUS
Imagine the result of that amount OF
business over party line in the coun-
try.
The serious illness of Archbishop
Keane reported from Dubuque. will
turn state wide sympathy toward the
| great prelate who has become po-
tent force for reform in Iowa.
A war balloon recently Travelled
/ l49 miles in four hours and a half
! and is considered a most successful
addition to the equipment of armies.
However it is not likely that anybody
but the officers would be permitted to
get away in it.
! Maxwell points with pride to three
rural mail carriers whom it is willing
| to weigh against any three carriers to
| be produced in Iowa. On route No. /,
/ Dayton Gardner, 6 feet, TX inches,
| weight 235 pounds; No. 2, A. E. Harris
| 6 feet, 2 inches. weight 100 pounds;
No. 3, E. A. Ernst, feet, 1 inch,
weight 1872 pounds. Total weight 617
| pounds.
A war against moving pictures Is
being made in Berlin. Physicians have
shown that they are injurious to the
eyes. 1t is declared that the culver
ing movements of the films are most
harmful, particularly to the eyes Of
children. At present there are 200
acknowledgement theaters in Berlin and
the suburbs.
well" demanded the stern visaged
woman at the back door, what do you
want?"
why replied the tramp, II seen
you advertised table board in dis
rnornin's paper
"Well?"
well, I fought n1ebbe you wuz Civ
IN out some samples. "-The Catholic
Standard and Times.
Electric light people find much con-
ISOLATION in statistics on fires. A report
read at the recent convention of the
National Electric Light association
showed that among illuminants in New
York in the past five years. candles
were responsible for 1929 fires, gas
for 2,5S9, lamps for 976. and electricity
for 457. The figures for Boston show
that out of a total Of 5000 fires cleo
tficity caused 60, gas and kerosene
2S4, matches $40. Chicago's record of /
fires numbering 1897, attributes $50
to careless use of matches. 201 to de-
receive fues. 2S2 to gasoline, 1855 to
Oil lamps and stoves, 1853 to spontan-
S''uS SOilOuollOhs anu VI " SfSStllSIly.
Out Of 1,165 alarms on the records
OF the fire department Of Los Angeles
80 We're due to crossed wires and 1877
to gas or gasoline. Baltimore makes
the best showing of all for the safety
Of electricity, there being only IL fires
from electrical causes out of 1,571
alarms.
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Texas offords another railroad prec-
adent. The Texas Central announces
that it has bought it's own sleeping
cars, and asks permission from the I
state commission to establish new I
and reduced schedule of rates.
The value of cotton manufactures
during the year about to end
will fall considerably below that Of the
fiscal year 1906 and be somewhat less
han that of 1905. This falling off oc-
ours almost exclusively in the trade
With China, to which the exports of s
cotton cloths from the United States
'or the ten months for which stats
les are available have been but little
,ver million dollars. against 26 mill !
ons In the corresponding months of ,
906 and 81 millions in the CORES
bonding months of 1905. This decline
n the movements of cottons from the
United States to China is largely due s
o the large accumulations of surplus !
merchandise of this character already
n existence in China, this surplus be-
ng due to over importations in the
ear Immediately preceding the close
# the war between Japan and Russia. a
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