The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-02-05
GINGER SNAPS

Still if prohibition grabs the city.
of Washington, it won't be such a long
long way to Baltimore.
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New Jersey, this year takes up the
proposal to tax bachelors. Why does
not the state ever take the other horn
of the dilemma and propose to pension
married men?
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This country made and sold 2,20O,-
600 top buggies last year. Naturally
those enticing places for courtship do
not lose their popularity.
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Besides ships for the carrying trade
Uncle Sam needs young men who can
talk with the South Americans in Spa
nish and Portuguese.
*SxH***
In these times that try mems souls
it is sweet to realize that the checker
tournaments are attracting crowds.
Doubtless the password into the in
ner councils at Springfield, ILL.,, is
""Highball" uttered with an alcoholic
accent.
Odd jobs will neve enable the IN
employed to keep even.
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With Charley Fairbanks in the ar
ena for 1916, Indiana buttermilk will
make another famous beverage look
gay.
Its hard to preserve faith in eu-
genics when a perfect couple after
two years of welded bliss begin to
look for a kid to adopt.
Although Congress has tried in
vain to find out what constitutional
psychopathic ~inferiority" means, there
is a growing suspicion that the patient
never recovered.
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The president is working overtime
nowadays explaining his jackson day
speech. It is not SO easy to make
clear how he happened to say what he
! did not mean and to mean what he
did not say all at the same time.
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It is reported that the German
Government diamond syndicate of
southwest Africa has offered its stock
at reduced rates to an American con-
Germ. The time has come when coron-
cts and tiaras are not regarded as ac-
tual necessities in Germany.
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The London Times begs leave to
refute the popular opinion thatiPoE
and is wild and desolate, but the ar
mors have hardly had a fair chance
yet.
Republican comment on the Indian
apolis speech leaves some doubt as to
whether President Wilson is regarded
as captain of the team or as umpire.
BY c~onsenting to a salute of the
Italian flag by Turkey, the sultan is
pretty sure to invite the scorn of a
European tourist by the name of HUI
erta.
**Sas***
Italy, like the Panama Zone, is brot
face to face with the fact that the
earthquake, respects neutrality.
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The Senate frequently succeeds in
representing the element of sober
second thought in the national econ
omy.
President Wilson has begun to ex-
planning is a firm o fatcniivldcst
planning is a form of activity that has
it's drawbacks.
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Secretary Bryan might tell that
Virginia game warden he was re-
hearsing for a Chautauqua stunt.
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A whale, mistaken for a Submarine
in the North Sea, was riddled with
three-inch shells, and probably no SUBJ
marines will be permitted to get away
because they look like whales.
Isn't the Senate Committee making
a mistake on the Philippine question
by asking for information from those
who know something about it?
The foot and mouth disease dlsap-
peared so quickly as to suggest that
the symptoms may have been largely
psychological.
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One reason we are not all success