Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-23
Topics Of the Times

1t is asserted by those in the bust
ness that over 50 per cent of the plays
produced are financial failures.
When Secretary Shaw reported that
his friend. John r. Walsh. had been
guilty of no moral wrong in connection
with the Chicago bank failure, the sec
rotary evidently forgot to explain the
matter to the federal grand jury.
With the state of California actually
discussing secession and a mob in Iowa
lynching man, the people of the south
ought to feel spirit of liberation
growing in the north.
The year 1906 proved banner year
in the importation of precious stones,
diamonds etc, at the port of New
York, the aggregate detailing over s43,-
100000.
With forty horses in the stable and
an automobile, it can not be said that
being a queen is a snap for Wilhelmina
of Holland.
1t is said that enormous volumes OF
current fiction have actually been
withdrawn from the market, and de-
stroyed since the pure food law went
into effect.
1t can be conceded that should the
democrats gain control of the govern
ment. the shortage in freight cars
would be corrected, but the country
might be sorry it approached the prob
lem from this direction.
Announcement is made in several
country papers that hereafter the mag
azine section goes only to paid-up sub
scribers. Why abuse thrift In this
heartless manner?
Smuggling, dynamiting and anonymous
threats at Burlington, and dynamite,
with an assault of saloonkeeper by
the mayor at Dubuque. should make
Mr.. Rankin's state marshal bill one OF
exciting interest.
Congressman fixing their own wages
can appreciate some OF the attractions
of the labor union movement.
Fort Dodge Is to have SIX story
bank building, to be built by the First
National Bank of that city. Elevators
and office rooms will give it metro
politan air. Slowly but steadily Iowa
is developing several cities.
A man hung himself at Cedar Rapids
Saturday because he was out OF work.
1t is not surprising, for man VINO IS
out of work during these times is likely
to make an effort to get off the earth.
Contemporaneous with investigations
by the government, mysterious SICK
ness seems to creep over certain OF our
American millionaires which bafrles
medical practitioners. 1t Is to be hoped,
for their families sake that long So
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Of health back to their cheeks.
If advertising will sell roller skates,
what could it do for livestock and sta
Pile merchandise? Watson & Co, OF
Union, recently advertised among T.-R.
sale ads, sixty-four pairs of rollers
skates. The next day customers called
them up by phone from Written, Con-
rad, Gladbrook and Hubbard. Mr..
Watson says he could have sold three
times as many as he had.
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"Ship subsidies as an item in the
Roosevelt menu causes a slight feeling
Of irritation in some throats as it is
being swallowed" gleeftlly remarks
the Sioux City Journal, but then 1t is
rough on the digestion to be swallow
ing everything one sees.
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Stray electric currents are wander
ing all over New York city underneath
the surface, eating up the gas pipes
and other conduits at an alarming rate.
to testimony submitted to
Referee Masten in the Eighty Cent
Gas Suit" This is one reason why gas
pipes leak. Some of these nomadic
currents cross over from Brooklyn, by
way of the two bridges, and make their
way back thru the water of the East
river. Other currents come from the
overhead trolley lines in the Bronx,
aim across the Harlem river by means
9 the new steel bridges, and, after
snawing at the pipes in the Harlem
scamper back to the
Bronx, right thru the water in the
Harlem river and ship canal. "Elec-
.rolysis'' is the scientific name for the
action Of electric currents on steel
pipes and bridges.
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