Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-12-19
CURRENT EVENTS.

have to chloroform him.
The man who has injected more
slang into the language than any
body else got the Noble prize for
good writing.
Speaker Cannon says congress
will go slow. Uncle Joe can speak
for the house and takes the chances
on the senate.
Most of the senators and congress.
men seem to have the rather poeti-
cal idea that financial bills will cure
financial ills.
A full corncrib in these times
looks more businesslike than a
sumptuously furnished brokers'
office in Wall street
When you have learned to keep
your mouth shut at the proper time
you have acquired enough capital to
embark in almost any business.
Woman, says fashion writer,
could get alon" with half the
clothes they buy. And those who
are in high society appear to do SO.
The voyage of the fleet to the
Pacific has no significance beyond
the fact that the United States
intends to live up to it's position on
the worlds greatest ocean.
when Oklahoma went prohibit
tion," said Adolphus Busch, of
Kansas City, "the act cost me a
million dollars" Who has this
million that Adolphus might have
secured?
A vegetarian society in Pittsburg
had on its menu vegetable turkey,
nut outlet and mock chicken. These
names have savory sound, and,
furthermore, imitation is the sim
cerest Aattery.
BY a new invention cavalryman
can telephone through his horse.
Clearly it is only'a matter OF time
until mankind will be able to see
through grindstone, even if it has
no hole in it,
The democratic party will have
three weeks after the republican
nomination is made to think it over.
and if the elephant has put his foot
in it, the donkey will have chance
to step over the same hole.
In one Ohio county eggs are
being used as medium of exchange
owing to the scarcity of money
The only disadvantage about this
arrangement is that it is easier to
pass a bad egg than bad coin.
Consumers of the product will be
interested to know that the brewers
are going to assess them five cents a
key for the purpose of raising a
fund to fight prohibition. Figure
up how much per day you are con-
tributing to this fund
In St. Paul the policemen are to
be given definite instructions to
arrest boys under eighteen found on
the streets smoking or otherwise
using tobacco. To use pipe
instead of rolling the tobacco in
paper will not exempt children from
arrest under the state law against
smoking by minors.
Three of the largest insurance
companies doing business in Cali
fornia have been denied certificates
to continue by Commissioners Wolf,
namely, the Palatine of London,
Commercial of London, and the
Williamsburg of New York, which
would not submit to suits against
them for losses sustained in the
earthquake fire, but insisted upon
taking the cases into the federal
courts.
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