Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-03
Topics Of the Times

That General Eurokf is a strategist
OF the first order. is confirmed by his
statement that American women are
glorious
Mr.. Fairbanks boom shows the de-
pressing effects of late and cheer
less spring.
An inch has been added to the
height required of candidates for adj
mission to West Point Seventeen
year-ods must measure mob less than
five feet four inches and those eighteen
five feet : inches. General kuroki
wouldn't measure up to West Point
except in the field.
Anyway this country is more inter-
ested in the way predatory wealth
grabs its prey than in the fashion a
Canadian wolf kills caribou.
One thing to be said for Jay Gould
and Commodore Vanderbilt<is that
they managed to keep financial success
and chorus girls separate
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The Iowa Official Register for 1907
is being distributed by w. c. Hay
word. secretary of state. and will be
generally referred to hereafter as the
Iowa Red Book, red having been SCI
.leeted as Sthe cover color. Increased
sic of the page of the register Is in
compliance with an act of the, Thir-
ty-first general assembly requiring the
size of its pages to be the same as
those of. other official documents. The
next edition of the Register will be-
published In 1909, as the law now pro-
vides for its publication BIZ ennially in
stead Of annually, as heretofore Spe-
cial features of this edition may be
readily discovered by glancing over
the table Of contents in the front part
of the book. Among some of these to
which the secretary invites particular
attention, is likely to be of general in.
terest, are the following:
Primary election law, on pages SAL
to $50.
Resume Of the state and national
pure food laws, on pages 5ss to 55s.
District maps, between pages $40 and
521.s
Members Of the general assemblies
Of Iowa, ON pages liz to 1856.
Biographical sketches, on pages $40
TO 63S and 40 to 713.
List Of Iowa newspapers, on pages
100 to 7S5.
The present Maryland motor vehicle
law provides that the following rates
Of speed may be maintained, but shall
not be exceeded, upon any highway in
this state by anyone driving a motor
vehicle: A speed Of six miles an hour
upon the sharp curves Of a highway
and at the intersection of prominent
crossroads. where such road passes
thru the open country or thru the
built-up portions of city, town or viii
lage, except cities of 10000 inhabitants
or over; also in passing teams or
horses on the road and horses left I'M
attended by the roadside. Elsewhere,
which embraces roads in the open
country and in portions of cities and
towns mont built up, a speed of u miles
an hour. It will be seen that under
this law the maximum rate of speed
which can be lawfully maintained in
any part Of the state is IL miles an
hour. In addition to this the act also
provides that nothing in its terms
shall permit any person to driv: a
motor vehicle at a speed greater than
is reasonable, having regard to the
traffic and use Of highways.
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Speaking at Grants tomb on Me-
mortal Day Governor Gould of Massa-
chusetts said: eff this government of
the people Is to be for the people 1t
must be by the people. The need Of
the nation is mot so much public
criticism as private action The slug
gard in citizenship who plays golf on
election day betrays his country as
truly in peace as the copperhead
sought to betray her in war;
What is believed in the northwest to
be the largest wagon In the world has
been shipped by the Pioneer Mining
Company. of Seattle, to Nome, Alaska.
where it will be put into service car