Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-19
Topics of the Times

The Waterloo Reporter is putting in
a three deck twenty-four page press
because the Courier has a two deck six
teen page press. The NewsTribune
will now have TO put in quad or
ihirtytwo page press
George E. Roberts. of renown as
fnancier is heartily in favor of a CEN
trail bank which shall be owned by the
banks as cooperative clearing house
for the whole country and which will
do business with the government and
with other banks only.
People who buy newspapers some
times forget that the consumer always
pays the tax. If the subscriber pays
little for his subscription the depart
menr store pays the rest and each gets
that portion of the paper devoted to his
needs which he pays for. Bargain
prices on newspapers simply put UP TO
the individual the question as TO how
much of newspaper the reader wants
and how much he is willing to let the
advertiser pay for.
Waterloo now gets 81 gas without
fight or a, new franchise. 1t is looked
upon as one way of boosting a town
and If waterlooans thought that it
would be boosting to stand on their
heads in church the whole population
would be inverted on Sunday mornings.
A fat steer does not move like an
automobile but he costs as much to
keep going and sells for about the same
price.
Keep in mind that there are worse
things for dinner than a fat chicken.
Ducks were once highly esteemed.
Don't go hungry on Thanksgiving be-
cause you can't have turkey or that
other extinct bird the emu.
/ Seems TO have been a squaw winter
with an aggravated squaw.
The Iowa saloonist is interested now
in the increase of population. The
Moon law is responsible for this new
interest in sociology. This makes il
hard on business that assists so
greatly in retarding and decimatine
population. If we are to raise the
number of saloons we must quit killing
people off with booze and if we quit
killing them off by this method of legal
assassination we must sell less booze
1T would do the heart good to see
Mr.. Roosevelt in pursuit of the fellow
who started the story that Roosevelt
tried to cover up the weighing frauds
A lion hunt would look like ladies
aid society meeting beside the ruction
, Argentine Republic is touted as 6
lanoring mans paradise. Carpenters
, and blacksrniths get S. a day anf
bricklayers as high as Sc. But why 81
four or five thousand miles when con-
worlqmen at even higher wages thar
the country down near the jumping of
9 place has yet imagined?
y
Perhaps this would be a good timt
to haul the harvester in from the fielt
. behind load of corn-if your har
: vester is still outside.
President Taft, according TO Mr
McVeagh, gave the tariff commission
plenty to do Now are we to hav
further exhibition Of the process O
how not to do plenty of things" o
will the commission justify even tn
4 hopes of those who are not especial
. ,,hoDsful'
: Many assertions from the army ar
e reported. Presumably some of tn
a fellows have found that the life Of a
a enlisted man is not a continual roun
of idieness.
Perhaps Corsa is one of those me
who ARE willing to take their medi
: cine in order to discredit an officis
G who stands to his duty. 1t is reporte
!. that such sacrifices are procurabl
It against smaller men than the pres
: dents.