Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-23

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sure OF anything you eat. It's all adult
| terated!"
Looking around for something more
to dts liking, 1t found a sheet OF gen.
uine sticky fly paper and soon became
desperately stuck on that.-Chicago
Tribune.
Regardless of the dilthy lucre he has
accumulated, bryan is generally con-
sidered clean man.
Chicago for a time was after the
booknakers Now 1t is after the book
agents.
The Foresters will next Sunday cell
citrate the orders birthday, at which
time high officials of the organization
will emerge from the tall timber and
gather at the Windy City.
Even Paris Is shocking itself. The
latest style Of diaphanous clathes de-
signed for woman is one cause OF as
constituent while THE other Is the Ian
guage being used on the stage of the
French metropolis since the stage CEN
sorship was abolished.
The first mans straw hat seen on
Main street was not as big as q Merry
Widow. 1t only looked as big.
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A mans clothes were found on a
Chicago street, and the claimant con-
fessed that he took them off while
drunk It's remarkable that he did
not ascribe their loss to hold-up.
Theodore Shonts' husband. Duke de
Chaulnes, died Of opium, and the hus-
band of Chicago girl. Countess City
ski, knocked her down twice, took
their child and abandoned the wife.
Yet our American girls still want them
at any price.
A former Iowa girl, who was unjust
~ confined in an insane asylum at
Kankakee, ILL.,, was adjudged sane,
wooed and married in one day. The
story might well be entitled From
Halter to Altar"
The "drys," strange to say are not
opposed to the move for waterways.
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Some of the editors are still talking
of the arrival of spring. We thought
it was all here, for we have not even
smelled moth ball for over q week.
$3.50
The spring that Is furnishing much
of this weather will surely go dry
soon at this rate.
Clyde Fitch. at dinner, produced
one of his famous scrapbooks.
I'm this scrapbook" said Mr.. Fitch,
II have gathered passages from the
years best sellers The passages will
give you some idea OF the style that
goes"
Then he read.
1.-THE worthy pastor appeared at the
manse door, his hands thrust deep In
the pockets Of his loose jacket, while
he turned the leaves of his prayer
book thoughtfully and wiped his
glasses with distraught air.
after the door was closed, a
stealthy foot slipped into the room,
and with cautious hand extinguished
the light
"'Fitzgibbon fingered over his final
lemonade, when a gentle voice tapped
him on the shoulder and, turning, he
beheld his old friend once again
1.-The chariot of revolution is roll
ing onward, crashing its teeth as it
rolls Philadelphia Record
When Jim Trewin was in the Iowa
senate he lived in Allamakee county,
representing senatorial district con-
tanning Fayette county as we'll The
West Union Argo, a Fayette county
newspaper, now says of him: "Rumors
float in this direction to the effect that
James II. Trewin, now Of Cedar Rap
ids and candidate for congress, Is
posing in the Fifth district as the or
iginal anti corporation man. This is
interesting and amusing to republic
ans here, who followed Mr.. Trewin's
record closely during the eight years
he served this district in the state SEN
ate. Mr.. Trewin's friends, so local re-
publicans say. were largely among the
railroad crowd, and when issues were
raised he almost invariably took a
course which appeared to be favorable
to the corporations On one occa-
sion, at least, he took that course az
ter giving assurances to the contrary
in the presence of several Fayette
county men, and those who We're
present say that the thwack on the
table from Mr.. Trewin's fist as he
shouted forth his alleged sentiments In
hotel room, is still ringing in their
ears Jim Trewin as corporation
regulator is about the best joke that
has come up the line"
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