The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-11-26
FEAST COST PLENTY
SPREADS FOR THE THANKSGIVING
TABLES AT HIGH PRICES.
But at That, New Workers Must Feed
Themselves to the Full; the Tiger
Is Playing His Game in Secret;
Teeth Tinkering Among the School
Children; Police Moving; Stories
From Gotham.
From Mondays Daily.

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New York, Nov. 22.-With the cost of
feasting rising to record height and the
money to feast with flowing in more
freely each day, Gotham is today pre-
pairing for real Thanksgiving Day,
the like of which its people have not
known in many year. Now that two
of the leanest years in history are
put well behind them, New Workers are
just beginning to count the profits of
returning prosperity, for the lack of
which the last two days of public
Thanksgiving have made sorry show
ing. Buoyed up on this general wave of
confidence the price of food stuffs for
the coming celebration are today threat
ening to reach the high water mark.
Tons of turkeys are being held for holt
day figures ranging well up from
thirty and thirty-five cents a pound.
Miniature mountains of cranberries and
other vegetables necessary to the spread
are offered at gilt edged prices about the
big market places of this town. For
all its expensive trimmings, however,
the Thanksgiving table will this year
be surrounded by the happiest crowds
that have been mustered here in half
dozen years.
Tiger Plays in Secret
Spreading by stealth through the Sc
Guided hooks of the best hotel and resi-
dence sections, the gambling game in
this town is today reported to be hid
den far beyond the reach of the most
inquisitive public authorities. Not one
of the principal palaces of chance that
flourished in the old days of Tammany
rule are at present in active operation
and apparently the days of the old
guard of notorious gentlemen gamblers
are ended here for all time. Though
these conspicuous snares are now appar-
emily swept away forever, the web of
the gaming spider is known to have
been secretly spun through hundreds
of back rooms and corridors of the
best hotels and night resorts of the
upper tenderloin. A small army of
fybynight gamblers have been found
to infest every lobby in the white light
districts, and the victims of their Sc
cret wiles are being caught by scores
each night.
Tooth Tinkering Terrors.
That the teeth of only three per cent
of all New York's school children are
in sound condition is the verdict of
council of dentists, through whose eff
forts free tooth treatment has been be-
gun at several points in this city TO-
day. Gross neglect of their masticat-
ing machinery is threatening to spread
disease and death through the poorer
quarters of this town, the dental ex-
perts declare, and every effort will be
made to waken the youngsters as well
as their elders to their immediate need
for tooth tinkering. Though rows of
dental chairs yawn, free of charge, for
the accommodation of the children of
the tenement districts in the clinics
that have just been established. the peo-
pie they are intended to save are fight
ing shy of the new proposition Even
the tooth brushes that the dental bene-
factors are handing out are being re-
ceived with some suspicion by the young
beneficiaries. No one expects to see the
dentists drillings made popular here
even to the owners of the most neglec-
ted teeth.
Police Packing Perplexirg.
To root up the central system of
the police force from its old headquar-
tiers in Mulberry street and transplant
it without hitch into it's new building
a mile uptown is problem that is