The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-08-08
Gemini Has
Invaded Mars
From Saturdays Daily.

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From Saturdays Daily.
New York. August 2,-Politics?
Tut, tut!
Baseball? Aw, fergit it!
Peek-a-boo shirt waists? Bach
number! afsta
Slit skirts? Tame Show!
Now the thing for any serious
minded man to do is to cast his orbs
over the dire predictions outlined
below, if he Is looking for excitement
1t seems as if Gemini tho swear
word, a planet has invaded Mars
which means all sorts of trouble
ahead for the United States. Mexico
Nicaragua and Secretary Bryan's lee.
ture dates have been duly discounted
Prof. Gustave Meyer, who astrolo
gi2es from the roof of a Hoboken
fat says Hell on earth with the lid
off, is coming. If the world has no.
come to an end before your peppers
gaze on these feeble words, then il
surely will do so on or before August 4
If by any accident, you live to see the
light of August 5, then the end OF
things is promised for August 10, H.
16, IS, 22, "a, 26, % or 20. If it
doesn't come by them-but what's the
use of manufacturing long-drawn-out
torture? Wait and see for yourself
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Many of the hotel proprietors and
managers of New York are thinking
about starting crusade looking to a
reform in summer apparel for men
hereabouts. 1t is said by those inter
ested in making things easier fol
perspiring humanity that the proposed
dress reform will benefit not only men
individually, in helping them forget
TO remember the temperature, but
it will establish the claim that has
been advanced for New York many
times in the past, that it is the bes
summer resort in the country.
The men want to dress in white a:
do the women, and in the near flu
ture Broadway may be one moving
mass of white robed individuals. /
is claimed that if fifty men can bt
found who will dress in white ant
dine at one of the leading hotels, i
will be only a few days before al
male New York will be CARRIED il
white and a new fashion established
The secret is out! The present
strike of the $4,000 BARRIERS in Man
haitian and the Bronx is the deep
dark plot of a firm of safety razor
manufacturers, who, to gain theil
own selfish ends, are willing that
masculine New York shall go un
shaved until it decides to use the
hoe" razor, so-called.
Was ever plot so diabolical
Matched before? The strikers profess
to see the fine Italian hands of the
willy boss" BARRIERS in this lates
tonsorial upheaval, and accuse the
bosses" of being in league with the
manufacturers of the safety razor
When a man discovers his favoritt
barber shop closed because of the
strike, he will not permit his bear(
to grow Tor perhaps his wife will
mott, but will simply go to the near
est drug store and invest in one o.
the safety machines. It's the sim
plest thing in the world! Next!
Taxi Cab Law.
The new taxicab law has just gon,
into effect and New York, from nov
millennium, so far as hacks go. Their,
will be no more shaky old rigs ant
no novices or thugs at the wheels
The bureau has installed a staff o
inspectors to enforce the law, ant
pending the reconstruction of tn
taximeters cards will be placed in tn
cabs showing how to reckon the new
rate.
The rule to follow will be to dc
duct 20 per cent from the amour
shown on the old taximeter, If Their
is only one passenger, but the rat
will remain about the same if Their
are three or four persons in the cal
Hack stands will be designated b.
signs. Owners of hotels and off
GERS of clubs may establish stand
in front of their premises by makin
proper application. The new Law
provides that no one shall solicit
fares for public hack except tn
driver, when seated on his vehicle
and it prohibits any one riding OF
the seat with the driver.
Ice Manufacturing.
New York's preparation for the es
Enlistment of an ice manufacturin,
plant to supply the public with ic
at cost marks the second notabl
step of the municipality along patel
nalistic pathways.
There have long been maintaine
Twenty-Five milk stations, wher
pasteurized milk has been sold at
figure barely covering the cost. TIL
completed plans for the installation
of an ice making plant were prepare
with view to delivering the ice S
manufactured to these milk station!
to be sold there at cost, that is no.
such boon.
The installation cost of the ic
manufacturing plant in the basemer
of the hall of records is betwee
". Il.