Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
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was in the middle of the road. "Ill
shoot if you don't stop" he called. PAY
me SIS for my buggy" He was paid.
Others farmers are likely to be paid
this summer under similar conditions.
Roundabout Chicago there are many
farmers who have buggies unpaid for;
they and their friends may do sentinel
duty on other highways.
With a victory in the circuit court
against the milk dealers, Chicago shook
herself free from impositions, those OF
short-weight coal men, short-weight
ice men and short-measure milkmen.
Hereafter the milkmen may sell only
quantities of half pint, pint or multi
pies, and the bottles shall bear the
quantity label. The court, in it's de-
cision. called attention to the oppor-
tunity for, fraud upon the public in
transactions so small that individuals
would not kick"
All this talk OF Joe Lane for gov
ernor may end in no thoroushfare
when the takers consult Mr.. Lane.
John w. Gates idea OF hunting big
game in foreign country doesn't nee
essarily indicate the game was too big
for him in this country.
The days of the old Gault house, once
Chicago's most famous hosiery, where
Henry Irving, General Grant, Robert
1ngersoll and Patti We're wont to
lodge, were ended by an auction Of the
furniture last week. The Chicago &
Northwestern railways new $25,o00,000
terminals demand destruction of re-
moval Of the hotel and wide swath
of other buildings. One chambermaid,
Bridget Marley, sadly wandered the
corridors during the auction of fur
nishings, for she had been there nearly
all her weekday life.
Nearly a million year was the rate
at which John w. Gates piled up
wealth, from the days when he was
known as the hottest sport In Tur.
ner Junction"-now West Chicago, Ill
Ito the day when announcement was
flashed from New York that he had
quit the Wall street game" Keeping
store in> Turner Junction was too slow
for him, so was selling barbed wire az
800 a month and expenses; so he de-
fed Isaac Elwood and his patents, built
three machines and in one year made
$150,O0O for $4,000 company. 1t was
strenuous business makipg that wire-
three times he evaded officers with In
functions by moving his plant across
the Mississippi river and he sold the
wire then went back and painted it.
billed it and went out and collected for
it. The pace delighted him, and tever
since he has kept it up, jocularly,
whether, he was buying control Of q
railroad, enormous steel companies or
few million bushels of grain, To
use a phrase familiar to him .the stack
in front of him" is big enough now.
1.-THE stack is guessed at $0,00o,0 600 to
$4,000, 600.
A wotnan's place in business has been
the subject OF an Investigation at Hull
House in Chicago. with the result
found that nearly every woman who
is employed Or is in business proves
to be there from stern necessity and
not to earn mere pin money. Each
year women have invaded more OF the
places in Chicago held by men. with
the result that there, has been con-
slant increase in competition between,
men and women who are employed.
One of the sociologists at Hull House
declares that woman has comes into
business to stay and urges that techni-
cal schools be foundedyfor their train
ing.
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