Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-31
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ators free traders says he does not
know who is financing the free TRACE
campaign which is in progress in the
Mississippi valley This is not Ike
the Capital. Il usually knows the To-
cation of the treasury. Its statement
is corroborative evidence that the pro-
gressive cause is not using money and
inferentially that the standpat cam
paign is not out Of currency! The
financial condition Of progressiveness
has not been listed high in the Cap
ital office since that excellent news
paper failed to collect 500 or $500 from
the committee for running political
news matter.
Judging by the loud talk there is
reviva! of good roads sentiment in
Iowa. The river to river road, how
ever, seems 10 be attracting more at
tention than the mudhole alongside the
undrained slough on the road to the
elevator But good roads sentiment
needs 70 get busy with drag on each
side Of the farm.
Curtiss made the trip from New York
TO Albany with but Two stops. II
Robert Fulton is enabled 10 keep up
with current history he might be for
given twinge of jealousy as he
watched the air navigator sail the
course over which he took the clermont
so laboriously a century ago.
Senator Lorinlor is also the victim
of conspiracy Il is amazing how
the epidemic of conspiracy spreads.
An apparently legless beggar has
been arrested in Davenport because
after day or so it was discovered
that he had a couple of excellent legs
concealed about his person. From the
outside il would appear that the skill
exhibited in concealing a pair OF long
legs under the circumstances was
worth the money.
Waterloo is to have several female
policemen" that is the mayor is ready
TO appoint women on the police force
Each will be armed with broomstick
and a hatpin.
The English people are slow to press
the political situation on King George
until he gets his bearings. That must
sound good to Taft.
AS a matter of economy of speech,
Loriner should withhold further de-
malls until the counts of the tndict-
ment are all in.
After all, wireless biography isn't so
new, for what is it that the absent
treatment cults have been using all
along?
Curtiss made 54.06 miles an hour
with his aeroplane. How utterly con-
temptible in the sight of the autoist.
The chauffeur's paradise has been
located It is at Ivybridge in Devon,
England. There, recently, a man on
a bicycle was run down by an auto,
and, emerging with fractured collar
bone, badly bruised leg and an ear
torn half off, he demanded of the
driver, Damn you, where's your num-
berg" they arrested him and fined
him IS for using bad language!
A beautiful custom associated with
the observance Of Memorial Day, has
within recent years become established
in Gloucester, Mass. Flowers are gath
cred and etrewn upon the waters of
the harbor in m emory of the men of
the fishing fleet who have sailed for
the Banks and never come back The
sentiment which conceived this custom
is pictured III larger. national sense
on the cover of the Memorial Day
number Of the Youths Companion.
Columbia Is there depicted scattering
flowers on the sea in memory of her
sons whose graves are in the unfath-
omed depths Of ocean. The blossoms
gleam against the dark blue of the sea,
and a squadron at anchor in the dis
lance fires salute to the nations lost
sailors.
Colonel Bryan says the democratic
party has its eyes on a western can
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