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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
Ninetv.seven Years Old.

Keosauqua Republican: Monday OF
this week, August 30, 1909, Mrs. Nan
cy Hearn, OF Keosauqua, was ninety
seven years old. She enjoys excellent
health and her mind is as clear as 1t
ever has been. Her only infirmity is
that she is blind Her son Samuel
Hearn and great-grandson John R.
Brookaart Of Washington, Iowa. are
visiting with her this week, which
gives her much enjoyment. Mr.. Hearn
formerly resided here. Mrs. Hearn
makes her home with her daughter,
Mrs. G. Wright OF Keosauqua Truly
she has lived to great old age.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

The question at once arises, What
service will the pole be to the world
if it is found. The st. Louis Globe
Democrat makes answer in these
words:
Commercially it will be of as little
use as the Northwest Passage is.
which navigators from the days of
the Cortereals had been seeking, but
which Mcclure traversed in 1854 and
which Amundson went through three
years ago. The man who first reaches
the end of the earth's axis, however
will be able to throw light on several
problems which have puzzled hydrcs-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
The origin Of Football.

New York Tribune: Football is a
game whose origin dates back to the
Danish invasion OF England. In the
year 1882 the citizens OF Chester cap
tured Dane, ana after beheading
him. kicked his head about the city
for sport, which proved so attractive
that It was repeated whenever the
head Of an enemy could be got. ii,
after times as It WAS not possible al
ways to obtain & mans head Tor the
purpose AZ entertainment the shoe.
makers Of the city were bound ~
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
"Fatherp Coffin.

Des Moines Capital: Hon. Z, s.
Coffin, of TT. Dodge, the we'll known
veteran of the civil war and more
than veteran in total abstinence work
among railroad men, is having trou-
BILE with his new wife, whom he mar
ried at Detroit year and half ago.
Mr.. Collins age is eighty-six, and It
has been determined by frequent ex-
periences that a man has less sense
In regard to matrimony at eighty-six
than at twenty-five. The people OF
Iowa will universally say that any
man Of eighty-six ought to have bet
ter sense than to marry. But. never
theless, the state will feel sorry for
the old man IN his troubles. There is
a faint suspicion that IL Father Coffin
had not owned Willow Edge Farm and
much other valuable real estate. no
woman Of fifty would have married
him. But there are two conditions IN
life when man OF good sense hasn't
any sense. One condition IS when he
is running for ONCE and the other is
when he Is In love, Or thinks he IL.
T: - n - 4 III, = fae t,s & X. xs 80
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
The Close Of Navloation,

Rock Island Union: The going to
bank OF the Diamond 10 steamers
makes the close of navigation seem
close at hand. The river boats have
charm and one always regrets the
approach of the time when they draw
their fires and c'ose the log book for
the year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

The state pharmacy commission
has announced its determination. to
put a stop to filling prescriptions by
nurses in hospitals. Nobody but a reg
istered pharmacist has right to fill
physicians prescr ptions, and the
board intends to see to IT that the
nurses obey the law. The board will
also conduct a vigorous campaign
against itinerant drug vendors who
fail to secure a license.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

mand for its product 1t will stay
closed. When the saloon is closed
arbitrarily. with the demand for its
product still existing, the natural ten
dency of its customers Is to match
wits with the authorities in the effort
to secure some substitute for the sa.
loon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

The attendance at the state fair this
year is in excess of all records. The
total admissions last year were 2O0,-
600. AS early as o'clock Tuesday af-
ternoon 226,23s people had passed
through the gates since last Friday
morning The cold weather Wednes-
day lessened the crowd somewhat but
there was an immense throng present
nevertheless.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

Burn the leaves, but burn them in
the morning when the sun will dissi-
pate the smoke and not in the damp
atmosphere of the evening when the
fumes will be nuisance to the whole
neighborhood.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

Alas for Walter Wellman! The
honor of discovering the north pole
belongs to another despite all he has
written concerning his intentions to
make it his own.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

The ottumwa Courier agrees that
Assemblyman R. j. Conklin, whose
views We're quoted in these columns
yesterday, has sized up the primary
as it is" Mr.. Conklin simply told the
truth about its practical effects.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

Mr.. Hartman owns railroads
enough to put a girdle around the
earth and have enough left over to
tie a cinch-knot Of the. most approved
kind, but Missouri paper points out
that he is unable to organize effect
ively the department of his own in
terror. Mr. Harrimans experience is
not exceptional That is where most
men fall down.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

II petrol butter, why not petroleum
ice cream? asks the Sioux City
Tribune.
DR.. Podstata says pellagra isn't
due to corn. The Jacksonville Courier
suggests that possibly local option is
responsible for it.
When the inevitable happens to Mr..
Hartman there will be someone to
take his place" says the Des Moines
Capital, although Wall street may not
think so right now
Howe-"Don't you know anything
about golf?"
Wise-tNo much. Why?"
Howe-'What's bunker? Do you
know"
Wise-T suppose it's one of those
cranks that simply live on the links"
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Mrs. Minnie Douglas. who was GUST
ed from her church at Abel, continues
to play whist and at the same time
demand reinstatement into the church
circles. Mrs. Douglas ought to change
tae game" suggests the Waterloo Re-
porter. Possibly seven-up or poker
would not be so Objectionable to the
good brethren
Though the next governorship cleo
| ton in Illinois is more than three
years away, aspirants for the execu-
tive chair are already preparing for
the race. Former Governor Yates,
Congressman William B. Mckinley,
former Lieutenant Governor Law
renee Y. Sherman and Speaker
Shurtleff of the lower branch of the
Legislature are among those mentioned
as likely candidates for the Republi-
can nomination
the hardest fought state campaigns
in the history of Indiana. The state
has normal Republican majority of
about $4,000 Last fall, however, the
Democrats succeeded in electing Thos.
R. Marshall governor by about 10000
and they also elected eleven out of
the thirteen congressman, two or
three other state officers and ma
jority of the legislators. From this
they are taking hope for the coming
fray The Republicans, on the other
hand, are counting on better organ
ization and a greater degree of united
ness to bring them victory.
Following conference of the freight
rat experts of the railroads OF Iowa
leading from Illinois with the repre-
sentatives OF the Iowa Commercial
Coal association 1t is announced that
the interstate rates from Illinois will
be raised in order to permit the Iowa
coal companies to do business in COM
petition with Illinois Unless this had
been done the Iowa coal men expected
to ask the Iowa railroad commission to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

The Kansas board of railroad com.
missioners have served notice to
baggagemen that bouncing trunks
from the top of a truck to a stone or
brick platform must stop. It was
high time for official protest against
the practice, and it is to be hoped
other state railroad commissions will
take like action.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

1t is said that SO per cent OF the
boil weevil, the cotton parasite, were
killed during the recent hot spell in
Texas. 1t is an ill heated term that
does nobody good.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

1t is to be hoped that DR.. Cook who
discovered the north pole brought
home a splinter from it to convince
the incredulous. In the absence Of
some tangible evidence of the kind
there is certain to be more or less
wagging of wise heads.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

According to Ebert Hubbard, mar
riage means to woman the giving up
of the attentions of many men for the
inattention Of one man. It's a cute
thought but it is not universally true.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

The Office of the Iowa Prohibition
list in Marshalltown was struck by
lightning last Friday There has been
no explanation as yet why the bolt
was SO long delayed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

An advance of from to 10 per cent
in the retail price OF diamonds is an
nounced for the near future. Will OPP
preston of the poor workingman
never cease?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

1t is to be hoped that the demon
strated accessibility of the north pole
doesn't mean that the price of coal
is to be still further advanced.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

The next thing in order will be
personally conducted" tours to the
north pole.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

Tie Iowa City Citizen says it would
be a strange thing If Republican
President could not discuss Republi-
can tariff law in Republican state
like Iowa.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

1t is a windy day when some air
ship record is not broken.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
THE DAILY GATE CITY

lower the STAT rates on coal. Illinois
coal can be mined more cheaply than
can Iowa coal and along with this 1t
was claimed their freight rates were
more advantageous which crippled the
Iowa mines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

masquerading as men in Alexandra,
Mo-. who horsewhipped, tarred and
feathered two unfortunate women,
very evidently never heard the story
of the lowly Nazarine and the scarlet
woman who was condemned to b.
stoned to death. Let him who Is with
out guilt cast the first stone."
Cedar Falls Record: Keokuk has
resurrected that ancient and revered
custom of administering tar and feath-
ers to undesirable citizens. Well, it
wasn't Keokuk that did it either, but
the dispatch announcing the event
was dated at that place and lot Of
papers give Keokuk the credit for the
mob spirit manifested. The thing real
ly happened at Alexandria, town
down in Missouri on the Mississippi,
but the victims Of the affair were
former denizens of the red light dis
trict in Keokuk. Two men and one
woman got what was coming to them.
Keokuk had run the outfit out of
town when the Cosson law became ef-
fective and Alexandria has no use for
them either. 1t is drastic way of
Kidding community of unwholesome
inhabitants
Cedar Rapids Republican: A hum
dred more or less, men and boys of
Alexandria, a Missouri town not far
from the Iowa border, desiring to save
the good name" of their community,
tarred and feathered and set afloat on
the Mississippi in leaky boat, with
out oars, two bad women, mother
and daughter But has Alexandra
saved its good name? Has it not rather
added an infamy to Alexandria that 1t
can never hope to outlive? Stripping
two women in the hands of mob and
applying tar and afterwards, feathers,
is one of the most brutal performances
that can be recorded against any COM
munity The sins of the women were
as white as snow as compared with the
sins of the community. No women
can be so bad that she is not better
than bowling dervishes who strip
them and tar and feather them.
The Missourians who enacted those
scenes near Alexandria simply showed
a return of the brutal practices of
the bushwhacking days of that state.
The brutal instincts seem to survive
in the Missourians of certain class.
The women we're, no doubt, objec-
tionable characters. They had been
driven from Keokuk in certain raids
on the red light district. But there
are other punishments provided for
women Of that class. They can be put
into jails. 1t might even be better TO
hang them, better than degrading
them In the manner in which they
were treated. However, the worst
degradation did not fall on them. for
they are beyond reach, but on the
men and the boys" who participated
in the orgies. Tie chances are that
the majority of the men VINO par
ticipated in the performances were
just as bad as those women. If the
Christlike test had been applied to
them. the chances are that all of
them would have deserved TIE tar and
the feather as much as the women.
The whole thing was an exhibition
and qualification of fiendishness, the
kind of human fiendishness that lin
gers in all places, but which seems to
have it's most frequent manifestations
in places like Missouri.
The good name" of Alexandria
will be stencil in the Lostrils of all
decent p -ople, until the mob leaders
in the crimes against the two women
are apprehended and punished.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
THE ALEXANDRIA INCIDENT.
Widely Divergent Views Of Leading
Iowa Newspapers.

Waterloo Reporter: Those brutes
masquerading as men in Alexandria
Mo-. who horsewhipped, tarred and
feathered two unfortunate women
very evidently never heard the story
of the lowly Nazarine and the scarlet
woman who was condemned to b,
stoned to death. Let him who is with
out guilt cast the first stone."
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

Keokuk, Iowa ~. September 3, 1909.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03
NOTES AND COMMENT.

II petrol butter, why not petroleum
ice cream? asks the Sioux City
Tribune.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03

When the inevitable happens to Mr..
Hartman there will be someone to
take his place" says the Des Moines
Capital, although Wall street may not
think so right now
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-03


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DR.. Podstata says pellagra ISM
due to corn. The Jacksonville Courier
suggests that possibly local option il
responsible for it.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12
Extinguishes a Real Fire.

The Davidson Produce Co., in whose
office is located the Carter & White in
surance agency, had an opportunity
Saturday evening of testing the new
fire extinguisher in a real fire. The
Produce Co. has room for ripening
bananas. The room was full of the
fruit suspended from the ceiling. An
oil stove was lighted and placed in the
room and the room was closed. After
short space of time Mr.. Crews, an en-
ploye, heard an explosion and he found
that the stove had exploded, the blaze
and smoke filling the room. Fortu-
nately Mr.. Carter had charged the ex-
tinguisher and Mr.. Crews put it into
requisition Immediately. The result
was almost instantaneous, the flames
yielding to the stream from the extin-
guisher readily. The heat had bursted
thermometer in the room, SO intense
was the heat.
Mr.. Carter says that the apparatus
has proven all that is claimed for it in
this test. In different place the fire
might have proven disastrous but for
the extirguisher.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12
$lOo Reward. $1oo.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is al least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its stages
and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the
only positive cure now known to the medical
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doing its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that they offer One
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Send for list of testimonials
Address +. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12

willing to go. We know it seems
strange that one SO young should be ta-
ken, but God works in wonderous
and mysterious way, and we cannot
understand the mysteries of death until
the final day.
DeBow was an active member of the
Baptist Church and was ever loyal to
the motto, For Christ and the church. ("
While our hearts are filled with mex
pressible sorrow and sadness over the
loss Of our dear brother, and there are
left SO many things to call up world.
of memories to all who were associated
with him, be it resolved that the bright,
beautiful testimony he gave in his last
hours awaken afresh in us hope that
stretches beyond the grave, and that in
compliance with his earnest exhorta-
ton we pledge ourselves anew to meet
him in heaven. HARRY NAYLoR.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12
Ebert Poland and the Italian Boys

The announcement that Mr.. Poland
and the italian Boys are available fol
next season, is, in itself, all that is nee
essary to assure the company of most
prosperous year. The Italian Boys un-
der Mr.. Foland's personal supervision
have become one of the strongest Ly-
ceum attractions available. Regarding
the program, Mr.. Poland will offer not
only the usual high-class program of
instrumental solos, duets and concerted
numbers in conjunction with his imper-
sonations and readings, but that he has
arranged and will present for the first
time the musical and literary fantasy,
: A Night in Venice. " The name in
itself suggests beautiful costumes, de-
lightful vocal and instrumental selec-
tons, blended with story of an Amer
leans life in the city of art and music.
They will appear at Reynolds Opera
House, Union City, Friday night, Feb.
u, 1909, auspices the Review Club.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12
In Memory Of DeBow Crenshaw.

AT 1890 O'Clock p M, Jan. "a, the
Master laid his hand of love and ten
derness on the suffering, throbbing
form of DeBow Crenshaw and claimed
it as he did the surging sea Of Galilee,
and took his spirit to its eternal home.
A heart-broken mother and many rela-
tives and friends weep for him they
loved SO well, but we admonish them to
weep not as those who have no hope,
for DeBow is with his Savior, out of a
sinful wicked world, and is now basking
in the eternal sunlight of Gods love.
He put his trust in personal Savior,
practieed the great principles he taught
and was loved most by those who knew
him. He was just entering into bright
young manhood when the summqsdl
came, bgt1Nhe was prepared, re~s-'
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12
Odd Fellows BANQUET.

The Odd Fellows of Union City Lodge
No. 294 will entertain their families and
a limited number of special friends at a
banquet to be given by the lodge on
Thursday night, Feb. 29 This lodge is
in fine condition. A complete new
equipment of regalia has been provided
and some new ritualistic work adds to
the interest of comforting degrees.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12
The Manitou Company.

/ B. J. Blethen and a company of very
capable actors closed three nights en-
gagement at Reynolds Opera House last
Wednesday night, playing a repertoire
OF high-class popular dramas. includ-
| ing Hearts Afame," "a Fighting
Chance" and Are You an Elk?''
A matinee was also given, and the audi
ences enjoyed them immensely. Mr..
Blethen, himself, is an actor Of profess
sional ability. His individuality fits
him admirably for middle-age charac-
ter work. 1t reminds theatrefolk of the
distinguished old-timers like LeMoyne
and James Lewis and Mr.. Lane. Mr..
Blethen has studied his art and he
knows the value and importance of de-
tail and the essentials that go to COM
plete an intelligent and presentable part.
Mr.. Robert Brister, the lead, and Miss
Helen Amelia Reid, the leading lady,
are interesting actor people. They are
fully capable Of sustaining the work
assigned to them. They could easily
satisfy the demands of larger interests.
The support, including Miss Mode, is
the repertoire new and de-
and the audiences were well
pleased. Mr.. Blethen and his people
are always welcome to Union City.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-02-12
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