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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
"The NewIyweds.v

He's a great kid This is the en-
thusiastic assertion of all audiences
where the latest offering in the line
OF musical entertainment, The New
lyweds and Their Baby has been
given, and the precocious youngster
has "Da-da'd into the most popular
favor 1t was George McManus who
discovered the Newlyweds and little
Napoleon, and placed them before the
public in the shape OF cartoons. For
the entertainment of the theatre
going public who clamored for the
same, the pictures have been put into
words by Aaron Hoffman and Paul
West, and Seymour Brown, Nat. D.
Aver and John W. Bratton set them to
music. Frank Smithson staged the
production and Julian Alfred arranged
the dances. Two gorgeous acts, four
scenes and sixteen musical numbers
are required to adjust the complica-
lions that arise from the kdnap.
ing of Napoleon Newlywed and the
substitution OF Major Knott Much,
rather, are played by James E. Rosen
a clever lilliputian In either role the
little chap is sure cure for the blues,
his portrayal of the baby being the
excuse for one of the most prolonged
bursts of merriment that will have
marked the current season at the
Grand opera house. Tuesday March &.
The chorus of sixty is handsomely
and attractively gowned. can and does
sing and includes number of the
best dancers that have bid for public
favor. Particularly is this true of an
octette of dolls called the Eight
Pouter Pigeons the big song hits are
"Boogic Boo Cant You See ! Love
You Every Baby is Sweet Bou-
quet' and Love Time The scenic
in both acts is magnifi-
cent.
Seats now on sale.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
ELECTRIC WIRING
FOR POST OFFICES
keokuk Government Building Will be
Lighted by Electricity, Con-
tract to be Let Tomorrow.

There have been number of repre-.
sentatiyes from outside firms here re.
Gently examining the government post
office and federal building with a
view to submitting proposals for wiz
ing this largest OF the citys public
structures.
Bids will be opened and the con-
tract will be let tomorrow the 7tn Of
March, for the work.
Since it was built, the post office
building has been lighted With gas
but the more modern plan of using
electricity for this purpose is coming
into general use in other government
buildings Of the country in cities Of
any size.
Local contractors, it is said will
not bid on the proposition OF
wiring the big building and parties
from Burlington, Quincy and ST.
Louis have been here looking over
the place and getting an estimate of
what will be required
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
SALVATION ARMY CAMPS
For Mothers and Children.


Hundreds of tired mothers and
sickly children We're given fresh air
and rest during the past summer by
the Salvation Army at its fresh air
camps.
There are many tired mothers who
fortunate enough to be given such an
cutting and we ask those mothers as
duty to themselves and their children
to read the two following letters:
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. who
has done so much good among the
children of New York City, says;
Little children seem to delight in TAX
ing yinol. In my work among the des-
titute sick. give yinol In many cases
where it would be impossible to give
cod liver oil in any other form, on
account of the extreme weakness of
the patients stomach. j have known
Who'll to restore appetite and infuse
new life in many cases of sick women
and children when everything else
failed.''
Mrs. c w Stump. Canton. Ohio,
says: Il wish ] could induce every
mother who has q weak. sichly child
to try the delicious cod liver prepare
ton. Vinol, as it restored health and
strength to our daughter after all else
had failed {"
Vinol is a boon to weak mothers
and sickly children. fit fails to give
Subtraction we will refund Your
money. McGrath Bros. Drug Co, Keo-
kllS
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
letter CARRIERS
ADDED DUTIES
Postmen Before Leaving on Their
Routes Must Weigh Diff
ferent Classes of
Mail.
RECORD THEIR WALKS
During This Week City Mails VIII be
Late Because Of Various
Accounts Required
by Department.
RECORD THEIR WALKS

Delivery by letter carriers will not
be as prompt here this week as usual.
Attached to their regular duties OF
sorting and returning their mail, and
delivering it, the postmen of Keokuk
and other cities and towns this week
are required by Uncle Sam to attend
to nearly a dozen and one other
duties, made necessary because of
various information the post Office de-
partment is after.
During the next several days. the
carriers will be required to weigh all
first class and all other mails sep
arately and count the number of
pieces of each.
Beside this they will be required to
keep record of the distance travers-
ed in making deliveries each day dur
ing the week.
Further they will take an inventory
OF the number of places at which
they deliver mail and also record the
number of persons to whom they de-
liver mail matter.
report must be made of the num-
-
Der of residences and business houses
having mail recepticles and those
places without them must also be re
ported
On Wednesday an accurate account
will be kept of the time required by
the carriers for routing the different
kinds of mail for their respective
routes.
All of this may seem supernuous to
the average person vet the govern.
ment is keeping closely in touch with
the time required in dispatch OF
duties by carriers, weighing of mails,
conveniences Of residences and bust
ness houses, with regard to mail re-
cepticles, etc.
So that if the man With the mail is
late these days, the reason is EN-
bodied in the foregoing.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Bird That is Bees Ene,,v

Bees have enemies of various kinds
like the rest Of creation. Every one
knows that many birds are .insectiyor.
Gus. but all insects do not form the
food of any one species.
The bird which has formed a taste
for bees is the blue tit. and II a pair
OF these discover suitable nesting
place in the neighborhood OF an apiary
1t is surprising how many bees will be
carried OF to satisfy them and their
young. Generally their work is most
ly felt where queen raising is ex.
tensively INDUCED in, for queens and
drones. bein glargest and slowest on
the wing, form desirable and an
easy prey.-Agricultural Economist
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06

In the cast OF THE Sweetest Girl in
Paris are two stars whose names
have shone forth on big electric igns.
TriXie Friganza was starred in THE
American Idea, which was written
for her by Geo. NJ. Conan. and Alex
ander Carr was co-starred with JEFF
ferson DAngelis and Blanche Ring in
THE Gay White Way the first large
revue to be produced by the Shuberts.
In the cast are also Frederick ".
Bowers, well known for his work in
THE Ham Tree" and "headliner
in vaudeville for long time He is
also the composer of a great many
popular ballaUs, among them al
ways and Because l Love You"
Cathryn Rowe Palmer one of the best
soubrette character actresses is well
remembered by her work with Ray.
mond Hitchcock in The Merry Go
Round which had long run at the
Circle theatre in New York. Zoe
Barnett before joining the above com
pany was considered the best singing
soubrette on the Pacific coast, having
been with the Princess Stock Co., OF
San Francisco. while Dorothy Bren-
ner is an ingenne-prima of rare abil-
ity. her work in the late lamented
s.Three Million Dollars being the
feature of that ill-fated production
The small parts or bits" are ably
handled by Edgar Murray. Mac Bon
-
and s. G.. Sandgran. The chorus and
pony ballet is one of the best eyre
cations of singers and dancers ever
gotten together.
The cast and chorus without ex-
ception is exactly the same as pro-
duced at the LaSalle opera house. Mr..
Harry Askin believes in giving the
public the best to be had and in send
ing out this company intact, he is do
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Churches Awakening.

3 ne churches of keokuk are awak-
ening to their opportunities and pos
sibly no othe. city has the ardent,
earnest. working group of ministers
who are to be found in Keokuk.
city OF beautiful church edifces
! and deseryedly famed because OF that
) TACT. the ministers, cos sregations and
( auxiliary orsaniza!izations have awak-
ened more thoroughly in the past year
TO OPPORTUNITIES presented to make the
worshipfnl services more attractive.
a. the First Christian church a bible
cass composed Of fifty of the best
Known men of the city are adyertis.
lng IN the newspapers, their topic each
sunday and in this way are reaching
men who would probably not other
wise know of what is going on in the
church and Sunday school depart
nlents.
u WAS an eminent divine who said
That ii the churches are to accomp-
'isli anything at all, they mast get
busy, make their services as attrac.
1--WE as moving picture show or en-.
'ertainment and the sermons interest
ing and of educational value.
The action OF The churches in taking
On new life is commendabie and the
natural consequence OF the ones
which Sit back and ignore modern
methods of reaching worshipers. will
be complete stagnation, say those who
know.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Young Girls, Heed This advice.
ing something which few producing

ing something which few producing
managers have ever attempted.
Most big productions that are sent
On the road carry an inferior cast
toward the one which made the .ay
success, the managers of same not
caring to take any financial chances
In doing this they do not realize that
the public in the smaller towns are
just as well posted on the theatrical
situation as those in the producing
centres. The Sweetest Girl in Paris
will be seen at the Grand Wednesday,
March s. Seats now on sale.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
In The Blood
A Bad Humor Broke Out as
a Small Sore Intense
Suffering for Five Years.
a Permanent Cure BY Hoods
SarEapariIIa.

On getting up one morning | found
what seemed to be mosquito bite on
the cali OF my right leg. Soon the
sore grew larger and continued day
after day. becoming more and more
troublesome. One physician advised
policing, another physician told me
TO use rubber bandage, but the sore
grew worse until there was not a spot
Of healthy skin as large as a ten-cent
piece between my knee and ankle.
a third physician prescribed paste,
and then Specialist in scrofulous
troubles treated me for year. The
sore seemed to be healing, but in a
lew months broke OUT as pad as ever.
mad now been suffering for more
than five years. My leg was dread
iul sight. There were places so large
and deep that an egg might have been
put into them. | was told the leg
must be amputated.
one day a neighbor spoke of the
value of Hoods Sarsaparilla for
scrofuia. and | thought | might as
well take it. Before l finished the
nrst bottle, l suffered less pain and
could see the edges of the sore begin
ming to heal.
so continued taking Hoods Sar-
saparllla, and before long the SO.
was completely healed and my general
Eealth perfect. believe it my duty
70 tell what Hoods Sarsaprilla has
done for me- Mrs. Josephine Sar-
gent, 2S Lincoln street, Exeter, N. H.
Hoods Sarsaprilla effects its won.
derfui cures, not simply because it
contains sarsaparilla but because it
combines the utmost remedial values
OF more than 20 different ingredients,
each greatly strengthened and en-
rlched by this peculiar combination.
There is no real substitute for it. If
urged to buy any preparation said
to be lust as good you may be sure
it is inferior, costs less to make, and
yields the dealer larger profit. Get
Hoods Sarsaparilia
Today in usual liquid form or in choc-
olated tablets known as Sarsatabs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Eastern Vanity.

In addition to treachery and GER
tain innate love of cruelty, the orr
entail nature, as present in the ruling
classes, is apt to be superabundantly
endowed with sense of its own i'm
portance, as is manifested in the or.
nate, elaborate and high-sounding
titles assumed by eastern potentates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06


hams Vegetable Compound was rec
commended, and after taking three bot
ties she has regained her health, thanks
to your medicine. / can recommend it
for all female troubles. Mrs. T.. A.
CoRKRAN, 1903 Rutland Street, Balti-
more, Md.
Hundreds of such letters from moth
ers expressing their gratitude for what
Lydia Z. Pinkhanl's Vegetable Com
pound has accomplished for them have
been received by the Lydia Z. Pinkham
Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass.
Young Girls, Heed This Advice.
Girls who are troubled with painful
or irregular periods, backache, head
ache, dragging-down sensations. faint
ing spells or indigestion, should take
immediate action and be restored to
health by Lydia j. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. Thousands have been
restored to health by it's use.
Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for advice, free.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
MY
DAUGHTER
WAS CURED
By Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Baltimore, MIDI send you here
with the picture of my fifteen year old

daughter Alice, who
was restored to
health by Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound. She
was pale, with dark
circles under her
eyes, weak and irrf-
table. Two different
doctors treated her
and called it Green
Sickness, but s he
grew worse all the
fi,,,o r xrJio Il D;pl-
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06

Persian Easy Language to Learn.
Persian is said to be not very diff
cult language. The modern Persian is
Very rsIch like the English in it's
sensible rejection OF the infections
tfa' burden SO many of the worlds
tongues.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06

TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if It
fails to cure. E. w. GROVES sigma
ture on each box. CSC.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
A Mothers Safeguard.

Foley's Honey and Tar for the chill
dren. Is best and safest for all
coughs, colds, Group, whoopipa cough
and bronchitis. No opiates. Wilkinson
& Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
What is Religion?

Rev. Williams will commence next
Sunday evening a series Of twelve
sermons which will be delivered by
him on Sunday evenings during the
coming athree months and will have
TO deal With popular topics of the day
and questions which are oft times
puzzlers to the ordinary christian, will
he dwolt on and explained by the
pastor very Interestingly. What is
Religion will be the general theme
of the series of sermons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06

Read The Daily Gate City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06

Glass Windows Scarce in Mexico.
Glass windows are still scarce in
the City of Mexico.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
Special Music Next Sunday.

Next Sunday evening Prof Albert
,Zoellner, with the aid OF a second vio-
lin, will play Haydn's two creations,
'''I'he Marvellous Work., and The
Heavens Are Telling
Several inspiring choral numbers
will he introduced and the music will
be featured.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
First Congregational Minister An.
nounces Change in Sunday
Evening Services and
Old Way Routed.
CLASS IS ADVERTISING
Christian Church Men on the Right
Track Of Drawing Men
Others Are Wax.
ing Up.

One by one the churches of keokuk
are catching the proper idea of how
to make Sunday worship, especially
that of Sunday evening more attract
i've for congregations.
From his pulpit last night the Rev.
Geo. c. Williams of the First Congre.
gational church told his audience that
in that house of worship on Sunday
nights the services would he varied
from the usual way in which it had
besn conducted during the past sew
eral years, and features expected to
make the hour greatly attractive will
be introduced.
1t has been proposed that the music
which has been one of the strongest
drawing cards of this church, have
an even large place in the beauteous
service of worship.
The choir, one of the largest, and
composed of some of the splendid and
most talented singers OF the city have
given themselves soulfully into the
work OF attracting in adjunct manner
with the minister, the congregations
both morning and evening and how
well they have succeeded is plainly
evident.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-06
PHySi slANS.
DIR, w. o. ,.HERLOCK,
pI FSJf,IANY ANN cI-DcrfNN.

DIR. w. o. ,.HERLocK,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office. 1s North Fifth Street. in
Howell Building.
Office -ours-l0 to IL a. M; 2 to S
p. ~; evenings. z to s: Sundays, IL
10 p. m. ,
w. J. HARTER, ND, DO.
osteophathic and Electric Treat.
Eents a speciality. Office 6o0z Main.
Hours-At residence. 610 High St,
3 to 10 a. M; to p. N.
Phone Office, Iowa. 21S Black; res.
idence. iowa, 1925 Red. Hub. 3432.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
LINER COMES IN CROWDED
Philadelphia Gets Overflow
Caused by London Strike.

The PHILADELPHIA brought 70 port yester-
dsv the largest number Of cabin passengers
she eyer carried on a westbound trip. They
numbered 20 in the first cabin and $50 in
the second a large number ~ them hav-
inc booked massage IN other steamers
which we're held III by the English strikes.
on the roof Of the pilot house. as the liner
came I'D the bay, sat q mammoth white
ra+ three feet from its front paws 70 the
tins Of jts ears and twelve feet over all.
It's conspicuous presence merely signified
that Hsriv Mountford. secretary Of the
Whit. Rats Of America. was aboard some
where
The Iusitanis. the Celtic and the MeCsn
tic the latter sailing from Liverpool for
Montreal. all contributed 70 the swollen
raseenger complement Of tho Philadelphia
beosusA the strikers on the Liverpool docks
u.ouIdn't let them sail Many OF those
transferred from the Liverpool boats 70
tho American liner had an expensive time
ga,tinr from Liverpool 10 Southampton
because Il the railway strike. which inter
,.orede between the time Of their arrival
an tho former city and their departure. In
tho abserce Of trains. they took taxicabs
a.ross England 70 London and trains from
,Aar. IN Southampton, on the Southwestern
Railway. which was not affected hy the
strike. -.,,,,,-o Assoc,..o r,,s.tca
olb Eing's Bench Division. in London.
and LADY Phiilimore were Two OF those on
~. philadelphia who had INTENDED TAXING
.h. Nierantlc 10 Montreal Iney VIII visit
-, con the Rev stephen Phiilmore, or
,lIoo,,,.or n C.. who ia now waiting Tor
49,, ~ Niagara Falls, Ontario.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
ASKS GAYNOR NOT TO HURRY
Municipal Research Bureau
Would DELAY Charter Action.

letter was sent Yesterday 70 Mayor
Cavnor by the Bureau Of Municipal Re
search i'm relation TO the proposed city
charter. asking him 70 DO as Governor
Dix did In June with the so-called Gaynor
charter when he said there was not time
enough At q special session of the Legisla-
ture 10 make the necessary amendments
70 the charter The bureau asked the
Mayor 10 realize that there was less time
for charter repairing now than then. The
letter also asks.
viii YOU not put stop 10 this spectacle.
which huuoilistes New York before the
world. and voice an almost universal SEN
tiruent that this charter hacking. 'harter
tinkering. charter rObbing shall be stopped ?
No one knows more clearly than YOU that
the few important distractions 10 CITY
government that are presented by the city s
present charter have been continued m
The proposed revision. on the other HAND,
there is not a conceded improvement pro
nosad in this new charter which cannot
no effected nv the Mayor II he Will use
tho powers given him in the present char
ter.
The MAYOR was also requested in the
letter 10 assure those for whom he acted
az Msvor that he would sign no charter
until IN had been submitted for pUhhc di-
uroysl 10 a referendum vote
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
PIRATE CRAFT WINE LADEN
Motor Boat Robbers Make Rich
Haul at Sea Cliff.
STEAL CONTENTS OF CAFE
Police Make Vain Search for
Craft with 1872 Bottles OF
Liquid Cheer Aboard.

Tho police ~ Sea CnG. Long Island.
spent Yesterday on the waterfront N
least. those whose beats terminated on the
shore managed 20 find circumstances which
required their continued presence IN that
vicinity, and those who were unfortunate
enough 70 be stationed uptown Joined the
others as soon as duty released them. They
were all on the lookout for a motor boat
that staggered through the waves Just
bit more ursteadily than a staid and sober
motor boat should. IN other words, they
We're on the trail Of a motor boat that was
hals seas over. To put it plainly. they
sought a motor boat that was drunk
Somewhere out on Hampton Haroor
each patrolman was convinced. wallowed
i craft IN which reposed fifteen cases Of
beer. a Ike amount of soft stuff' and
whole case Of choice champagne-some I32
bottles OF smbrosial fluid IN all, II the rig
ures given BY their former owners Tailed
with the truth. II was enough 70 make
the whole town Of Sea Chff happy for in
told hours-if the police didn't conascate
the cargo before the town got after IL.
The police had a right 70 coniscate H.
too. because II was stolen goods That was
how they came 70 be 90 anxious concern
ing the wherea bouts Of this mysterious YES
sell II was reported 10 them Yesterday
morning by the Oakland Steamboat Com
pany. whose principal occupation is ferry
ing rich Automobiles over from Rye
Beach 70 Sea Cliff. that some time during
the preceding night some one had entered
its ferryboat Rye cliff. az she lay idle in
her Sea Cnn slip, and departed with the
entire contents Of the CATS. excepting only
the furniture and the cash register, which
was nailed down.
There were ten men on the ferrybost at
thn time The errineer ard his assista Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27
DIRECT NOMINATIONS PLAN
Republican Captain to Hold eau
Gus in His Home.

Lindon Bates, ir, Republican captain or
the sth Election District Of the 2eth Assem-
bly, District, has resolved TO try plan Tor
direct nominations nv party members
which. II successful, may be adopted by all
the election districts in the Assembly dis
trict. William Chilvers ts leader Of the
Assembly district. which has frequently
been known as the diamond backed dis
trict because Of the wealth Of its resi-
dents. II extends from 56th street 70 'oth
street. on the east side OF Central PARK.
Mr. Bates has announced that on Tues
dav night AZ hie home. No. 7s4 Fifth ave
nue.. there will be elected delegates 70 the
conventions 70 name candidates for the As
semnly and for the Board Of Aldermen from
the district and also a captain OF the ois-
trict and members Of the district commit
tee for the ensuing year
1T has been usual for the party captains
~ choose men AZ delegates without REFER
ence 70 the voters, declared Mr.. bates yes
terday. who are given no opportunity 10
express their desires until printed uchet
appears on primary day 1t seems 10 pe
contrary 70 the spirit of direct non1lna'ioiiS'
IN which both parties are pledged' IL 'he
enrolled Republicans do NOT care enoNs"
70 come and choose their representa- yves
some one else will.
The district in which Mr.. Bates is 'ne
captain contains the homes or the Iollo"-
ing we'll known Republicans: Otto l. BAN
nard. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Isaac @ueeen-
helm. General Thomas II. Hubbard AdoiPh
1,ewisohn. Robert c. Morris. bmien Hoose-
volt General Benjamin f. Tracy ana james
Talcott. also the Metropolitan Oluo anu
the Plaza. Netherland and Savoy hotels