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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02
WHY FOOD is EXPENSIVE.

That it costs more to maintain an
individual or family now than form
erly is fact But the American
Grocer points out that it is largely a
matter that can be adjusted to ill.,
come if the party interested chooses
to use common sense and practice
self-denial. The authority in question
endorses the statement of Professo.
Whitney, chief of the bureau of soils,
Washington, D. c., that Americans
are eating far more than they did fifty
years ago, and goes on to say:
Never before was the dietary of
the people so varied as today; never
of higher average quality. We are
a nation given to extravaganza and
waste. Why buy prime rib roast
costing twenty-five to twenty-five
cents or more the pound when hind
quarter of spring lamb is sold at six
teen cents? Why does a family,
forced to economic, pay fourteen
cents for proprietary brand of rolled
oats when they can buy like guam
tity in bulk at half the price? Why do
the people pay a nickle for box of
biscuit weighing less than half
pound when they could purchase for
the same cost nearly double the
quantity of bulk? Those are instances
typical of hundreds of articles of food.
If the situation is analysed we dis
cover that the people regard package
goods with the greater favor and
willingly pay the higher cost because
OF their convenience"
I The same authority says that the
real cost of food is Influenced great
~ by the character and expense Of
the service demanded, and this varies
tremendously. The facts in the case
are thus stated:
1t is a fact that store whose Gus
toners demand luxurious service
distributes 500 worth Of food at a
cost to the consumer Of 1925 and that
T 1t requires $40 to s23 to cover the
expense of the service leaving the
dealer 2 to 5 per cent net profit.
Within the same territory are stores
serving different class of trade
where the expense of service is u
to 1G per cent, the net profit to 10
per cent
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02
Hits the Publishers.

Galesburg Republican Register:
President Taft in little speech to the
publishers of periodicals yesterday hit
them little rap when he admonished
them to be more careful about max
ing charges against public men. He in
this gave the impression that some of
the publishers are reckless and are in
spired by an ambition TO be sensation
al rather than to be exact and truth
ful. One wonders If the publishers
VIII follow the hint for of late years it
has been notorious that the most glar-
ing charges against public men have
emanated from the magazines until
the American people are filled with
distrust and suspicion Of their public
men. Probably in no country on earth
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02
GET the Hook.

Knoxville Express: The Fish was a
hotel dedicated at Sigourney the other
day. Suckers may stop there and
perch at 50 per day, net, if they want
to get INTO the swim, but they mustn't
cod the landlord about seeing an in.
seine man on the pike, nor carp about
the quality Of bait. Business will be
done on large scale and special &C.
commodations will be provided for
buffaloes, channel cats and red horse
Guests are requested to rub their fins
over the register as little as possible
and be sure and hand the quill back
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

President Edmund ]. James of the
University of Illinois has prepared a
memorial TO congress in opposition to
the bill before that body making an
appropriation to the George Washing
ton University, private institution in
the District of Columbia. Hitherto his
opposition to the bill has been based
upon the simple fact that public mon
ey should not be voted to private in
stitutions, whether sectarian or not.
Upon further investigation ii appears
to him matter of grave doubt wheth-
er the George Washington University
should not also be classed as a sectar-
Ian Institution, which would of course,
he added ground for opposing the
proposition President James makes
strong presentation against the bill
and his facts and argument are en-
titled to great weight in determining
whether public funds should be voted
to the institution in question or not.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02
On the Home Run.

Galveston News: How to find the
new comet: Look over third base
from the direction of the home plate.
Just above the left field fence to the
right of the score board, % degrees,
8 minutes and "a seconds west of the
knothole
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

has already made a good officer, ii
he has been careful and accurate, ii
he has rendered a just account of
stewardship ne is entitled again 10
the suffrage of the people of the state
Of Iowa and he ought TO have it. :
What the Advertiser says concern
ing Mr. Morrow is every word true.
If The Gate City had thousand votes
i would cast them all in his favor for
another term.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

goO1 ues. ..., 4, .o,,.l. ,,il1IHg Was
indeed rather vague Nevertheless un-
consciously born were affected By her
mood and came INTO the room smiling
Murgatroyd. sitting on the edge OF the
table. his arms folded. singled out
Shirley and said:
Ready for the lynching. Miss Blood
good?
Shirley scorned TO answer
Would sou miDd locking that
door, Murgairoyd called to Chalioner
and. turning 10 the ladies. Mrs. Chal-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

1t is rare train into Keokuk now
adays that does not bring something
in connection with the construction
9. the big dam-either men. material
or supplies. The work of construc-
ton is being pushed as rapidly as con
ditions will permit.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02
We Eat Too Much.

Iowa City Republican: If the peo-
pie would cut in two the amount of
meat they use, the only persons to
suffer would be doctors and meat pro-
ducers. Almost everybody eats too
much meat, when their health is con-
sidered
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

Two thousand Peoria men have
pledged themselves to abstain from
meat for thirty days. Like as not
they pay more for drink than for
meat, but we do not hear of them
swearing off on booze for the same
length of time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

Is there more indiscriminate attacking
of those that hold office Ii is within
the possibilities that it will drive
political ambition from the hearts of
the really good men who do not care
to have their good names smirchee by
this process.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

The high prices of food products
should give impetus to the back to
the farm" movement. In course of
time, by the same token, the "back
to the farm" movement should lower
the prices of food products. 1t is a
rare evil that has not within itself
the seeds of its own dissolution
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

With hogs at So a hundred the
grounding may insist on several
weeks additional winter weather in
return for looking at his shadow.
Everything comes high nowadays.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

Easter comes early this year, and
IT is an old saying that an early
Easter means an early spring. 1t is
to be hoped the saving will hold good
this year. An early spring would be
distinctly favorable to rapid progress
In the work of developing the water
power
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

An Illinois judge has ruled that a
man must not stay away from home
more than forty-eight hours without
good excuse. Nothing is said as to
what constitutes a good excuse, but
It would seem that anything that viii
pass muster in the domicile should
meet the judicial requirement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

A police officer, recently deceased,
for fifteen years had charge OF the
Wall street district, during which
time, 1t is stated, not so much as a
ten-cent piece was stolen there by all
"outsider." The street, it appears,
extends privileges only to the in.
itiated.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

On Sunday night the Rev. H. F, Nc
Donald of Manchester Iowa, will
preach on Hell and the Way to it,
After that remarks the Des Moines
Tribune, there will be no excuse for
Manchester folks going it blind
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

| placed lii> rii.it D..twetu The TWO Wo-
men.
| Murgatroyd became chilly. even
stern Addressing Cnalioner. whom he
! looked wei IN The eye, ne began:
Mrs. ChaIloner mas asked me to 60
on a SlN,.UUu construction bond for
| you. also 10 loan you considerable
money
There was Il dramatic pause.
There II is. announced Murgatroyd
| In the same busiresslike tone and.
stepping aside from the table. reveal
sheet iron boxes.
Those boxes. exclaimed Mrs. Chal-
Toner. who was visihly excited. What
is IN them!" she asked in pewiider.
/ ment.
Il don, Know. returned Murgatroyd
calmly.
/ There WAS no question in the minds
OF the prosecutor i visitors but that
| these boxes we're The same that Mir
! lam had brought TO him so long ago
! filed with nesoia BILE securities 10 the
|. extent. as Miriam was not likely TO
forget. OF SSiO.U;u bur az to their
present contents MI naturally were at
loss TO conjecture.
| Shirley broke out with
do you mean 10 say hat you don't
know wilat is III theny
| Miss B!npdgood. there's only one
| person il, this rnnm VINO KNOWS that"
| be replied duletiy Then. turning to
Mrs. Chaloner. he went on In the
same toue:
DO you see these seals r
Yes" she whispered.
/ "Unbroken. are they not"
Yes. again she ,sseEted family.
well. then. you know what is In
side of them do not
| ~" faliered Mi,iam why
Then followed moment OF rackiDg
suspense for all except perhaps Muir
/ .atroyd
Mrs Ch!..oner. he resumed. you
/ u me ,,ii,e tlia' there were $SGOU0U
ieruiiil's,, >m'ri,t.s IN these boxes
/ 10 49, .',:e thrss.
ITO be continued.)
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

Some of the striking shirt-waist
makers have solved the problem by
getting married. Others announce
their Willingness to try the same rem.
edy As many of such marriages
VIII presumably be entered into on
short acquaintance some of the dis.
gruntled shirt-waist makers seem to
be in fair way to find the remedy
worse than the disease.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

A French doctor has plan to de-
stroy mosquitoes when asleep AS if
mosquito ever slept when there is
any one around for it to bite.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

Speaking of causes of divorce, the
records show that most of the cases
of domestic infelicity in New York
begin with unpaid millinery bills.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

The presumption is that Br'er
Grounding seen his duty and done
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

It would be everyday luck if eggs,
when they begin to drop in price,
should fall far enough to break.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

Summing UP current opinion, the
Sioux City Journal concludes that il
1t pays its trust.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

The latest version has it that what's
one mans meat may be another's
alfalfa
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02
NOTES AND COMMENT.

ITO chew or to eschew, that is the
question: remarks the Kesanee Star
Courier.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

You don't hear anybody kicking on
the high prices of Iowa land,
observes the Manson Democrat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

If the Herald-Transcript tells the
truth, Peoria has a man who is SO
lazy that when he slipped on an icy
walk last week ne stopped to rest on
the way down.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

The Burlington Gazette says the
average mans stomach is not built
for boycotting meat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

Henry NJ. Belvil, pioneer Iowa
publisher, formerly editor of the Des
Moines Chronicle and later of the
Grand Army Advocate, is dead at his
home in Des Moines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02


| Courier.
I The Burlington Gazette says the
average mans stomach is not built
/ for boycotting meat
1 You don't hear anybody kicking on
I the high prices of Iowa land, -
/ observes the Manson democrat
If the Herald-Transcript tells the
1 truth, Peoria has a man who is SO
lazy that when he slipped ON an icy
walk last week ne stopped to rest on
the way down.
Henry NJ. Belvil. a pioneer Iowa
publisher, formerly editor of the Des
Moines Chronicle and later of the
Grand Army Advocate, is dead at his
home in Des Moines.
The state bank problem was solved
through the taxing power The Sioux
City Journal suggests that tie yellow
problem might be solved in the same
way. For other reasons, the maya
zines ought to pay more for their
transportation.
Rev. Alzo Fisher of Ackley, Iowa,
has been working in the mission
fields of China for the past year and
is credited with eight hundred con-
versions. You can always count on
hearing from an Iowa man, observes
the Oskaloosa Herald.
The Los Angeles woman who claim
ed to have been blessed with guard
ruplets, following two sets Of triplets
and pair of twins, has confessed
that she has had but one baby and
that died in infancy. The rest of the
brood represented raids on orphan
asylums.
The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can says that any male person of
legal age who can present a plan
whereby live hogs may sell at SO
cwt. and pork chops at 6 cents a
pound, may pick out the official place
he most Graves and move in amid
wild acclaim by the populace.r
woman whose experiences have
left a trace of acid in naturally
sweet disposition, says that the wom-
an who talks most about the woman
ly woman is the lady who plays
bridge most of the day in her room
at the hotel while her husband is slav-
ing himself to death to pay the bills.
And he is the sort of man easily per-
suaded that the clinging vine sort of
wife is his ideal
The auarreling in the Republican
party encourages the Washington
Democrat to believe that the Demo-
Gratis have chance to win In this
years congressional elections 'If
we win this fall. y says the Democrat,
nothing can defeat us in 1912 except
a cataclysm: but, of course. there will
likely be fools enough to stir up a
fight in our own party so there will
be no hope for US"
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

keokuk. Iowa February 2, 1910.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-02

The state bank problem was solved
through the taxing power. The Sioux
City Journal suggests that re yellow
problem might be solved in the same
way. For other reasons, the maya
zines ought to pay more for their
transportation.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
BANK SHORTAGE
TOTALS $424,45(
southbridge, Mass, Institution
Systematically Robbed for
20 Years.

BOSTON, Mass. Feb. IA shortage OF
si24, i42 in the accounts of John A. Hall.
treasurer Of the Southbridge savings
bank. was shown to- night when Bank
Commissioner Arthur r. Chaplin made
public his report.
The hank commissioner recommends
either receiver for the bank or a
plan whereby the deposttors agree to
accept new book for NJ per cent. OF
their deposits.
The shortage, according To the report
covers "A period OF twenty years and
represents II loss OF lio5 per cent ON the
value Of the assets. Hall is az present
confined in the Worcester county Jail,
owing 10 his inability to secure $4,000
bonds lie disappeared whne his books
We're being examined last month, hut
later save himself ny and was released
under $4,000 bonds which We're increased
whom II MAS seen that the banks loss
would be heavier than was Hrst suspect
ed.
Examiner Otis declares in his statement
to Commissioner Chapm that the fGfsl-
ication of Treasurer HAN extended over
nearly the whole period which Mr., Hail
was employed In the bank some ~ wears
and that the methods employed were to
raise arbitrarily the amount of weekly
payments entered upon the counter book
to rafse the amount af weekly payments
when posting in tae cash books and
ia credit cash for fictitious personal or
town loans OF deposits ia hanAs the
amount sc which would be added to
the weekly Withdrawals and debited to
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
JURY D|SAGREES
IN THE FORD CASE
Eight Refused to Credit Any Tes-
tnnony of Warmer, the
Master Thief.

Cincinnati. Feb. 8.--The Jury in the
case OF Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford.
charged with matchmaking Charles
L. Warriner after being out "a hours
failed 10 reach a verdict and was dis
charged by Judge Swing to-day Eight
Jurors stood out for acquittal and four
for conviction.
The unexpected end to the case was
explained by two of the jurymen AZ
due to the fact that a majority Of their
colleagues refused to give any credit
TO the testimony of Warmer. They
asserted that a man who had confessed
to embczzlinF for % years would not
hesitate to pcrjure himself against a
woman whom nc believed had been the
cause OF his exposure.
Prosecutor Hunt announced tonight
that he expected to bring the woman
TO trial again within the next three
weeks At the Same time. he intirnat-
ed that he might abandon the case
Pending trial. Mrs. Ford was released
| under sa.5o0 bail.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
REMARKABLE Vt. MAUSOLEUM
Erected in CuttinTsNfilc Cemetery by
John II. bowman, Former Menu
Der StEte Legislature.

IN the uttl. rural Laurel Glen cer,e-
terry nj Cuttincsvillc. /. n magnificent
Grccisn u1ausolel1,u a memorial ~ what
many considered tho occe1+..icit,. or
John T.. bowman. a wealthy. 4x-n,er1har
Globe
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wife and da,,grtar. ,oor ,,..s r..',,,r, .
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
HID WOMAN 5 BODY
UNDER THE FLOOR
Police Seek Maker of Bloody Fin
ger Prints Husband Is
Suspected,

New York. Feb. 7-Wedged in a narrow
trench beneath the concrete and boards
of basement floor was found to-day
the body Of an unidentified woman, who
had nrst been hacked in the head with
some sharp instrument like ar ice pick
and then strangled to death. The police
believe she was the wife of Scandinavian
janitor who vacated his quarters In an
uptown apartment house last Friday. lie
was known variousiy as Peterson ana
Tamsen or Thompson.
The basement room was locked and
bare OF furniture but on the walls near
where the flooring had beer r'nIod up
and the trench dug, were bloody finger
prints which have been photographed to
aid in Identification of the murderer. Tn"
owner OF the apartment house knew little
of the former janitor who had liz ed
quietly in his suibterranean quarters until
he gave notice that he would move, An
evil odor had first notified tie tenants
that something was wrong and. on their
complaint John Corse, the landlord, sum-
moned the police.
tThe odor grew worse when they
broke into the locked room that had
been the janitor's parlor and when
they rlpped open loose plank, Il
woman's bare knee popped up auto
matically above the level OF tho hoor-
ing, The murderer nnmpored IN his
work by steampipes, had jammod the
body forcibly into tho trench over n
hot Pipe and then held 1t In place by
mailing down tho planks,
The police soon found the cxpress-
man who had moved Peterson to an
address farther up town. where he was
known rs Tamsen, They traced him
but in his stead was found only girl
of 10, who spoke no English and has
thus far refused to answer tho uues-
tions OF an interpreter, But the lug
gage was Petcrson's and in the Kitten
en- Of hls new quartcra were found u
bloody Ratchet and, in one Of his
trunks the marriage certificate OF
August Peterson and Augusta Sophia
Arkman, dated Jersey City, 1907
The nameless, silent Girl and a man
| called Pierre i.oisei, who was arrest
ed AS he entered the HAT where She
| lived, have been detained, Peterson IL
stlii Ut large,
The house in which the body wal
discovered was nj l1s west pAtn street
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-02-10
WORST FIRE IN % YEARS.
Lnm'on 8ioek in Randolph Destroyed
by Fire ee laLneyyu 0rigfa.

Handoiph, Feb Irne block owned by
Jasper ii. hanson was destroyed by FIRE
%esteSIay morning with total loss of
an"ut SfAtVN The Gre Was the worst See
village has suffered In y years. Its orig in
Is NnkRawn.
'he Sioeh w-as occupied en the Grst
moor by the Randolph Inn automobile gar
age owned by Fred & HAYWARD There
were three machines In the garage at tha
nine, two qwaed by Mr. HAYWARD; and
one belonging Ia Charles Ii. Blodgett.
rural mail carrier, The bodies of all three
natAsines were destroyed Tho SECOND
h'or was occupied by the Wolf club. a
h'Sh school organization. whose Furnish
tnsS were total iass Tha hardware
stock Of the Wheeler r. Lomson con,nanv
octUgied tie top door.
OF the boss MI, hanson sustained &, oCo
ON he buSldipg, with no Insurance.: Mr..
hayward s., 200, no insurance. Mr. R,od-
r,ti 500. no Insurance, Wolf club 200 no
insurance. l.anlson company 81, ZOO no in
surauce.