Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-09


almost would be pardOned for remaTking that
his audience was electrified
An old subscriber reports that sheet OF
paper laid over the ice will preserve 1.-THE
ice.
lady writes asking that We advocate saw
ing ice by putting water in the bottles and lay
ing the bottles the ice in the ice box That
will obviate the necessity of chipping ice to
make ice water Lots of US have followed that
plan for long time
The new German White Book declares that
the kaiser saw defeat a year ago. In America
we saw it four years ago.
ITO what extent do you use intoxicating,
ABOUT 2.75 per cent"
poor man is always talking about what
he would do If hey were rich, but a rich man
never talks about what he would do if he were
poor.
Hen Ford says that Adam had no history
and he got along pretty we'll" But if he had
had a fiyver he would have gotten along much
better Hen might have added, for advertising
purposes.
When a girl has to pay 10 cents for a s.
cent soda because of the tax she begins to
think the man who wrote the arithmetic pulled
boner or something.
Why is that when the movie hero wastes
about forty yards of film panning the villain,
all he says, according to the leader, is, You
lie, Hen-nery Chatsworth?'
And is the dog a pet of your husband's?'
Yes, his pet aversion
Was your daughters musical education z
p Rather replied Brown 4 bought the
houses on either side of US at half their value"
Street Car Comedy.
Whats the speed capacity of your auto -
Il don't know The other day | passed a
patch and an onion field mile apart
so that they looked like dish of cold slaw.
Clemenceau is said to have accepted an
offer of an American promoter to come to this
country and deliver series OF lectures. 1t is
assumed the promoters press agent will write
the tigers speech. which will explain how
America won the war. Clemenceau has long
desired he claims to retire from public life,
but like most other humans, he can't resist
the lure of the lucre.
81 notice" postcards Oswald. where Rev.
Bacon has accepted call 10 an East Moline
church II he will permit it, I desire to ex-
tend him my congratulations. You know what
I mean"
'eWettest July on Record Headline And
the nation went dry the first of that same
month.
We are to have sure enough prosecution Of |
the meat trust, we are told. In the meantime
the combine is getting millions OF dollars !
worth of publicity in the press, free gratis for
nothing The trust welcomes the probe. 1t is |
almost defiant in its stand feeling security in /
the secrecy of its agreements to film the pro-
Queer and the consumer The nation can prose |
cute till the cows come home and it won't in
jure the packing trust income. There is but |
one way to get results helpful to those who are /
now suffering. and that is for the nation to AXE
.ver the industry and operate it, at least an /
experiment., long enough to locate the African !
in the woodpile.
"'The kaiser is bearing his burden, but the /
Lord will lead him out of the dark valley
wrote Bills wife to a Berlin church pastor. /
Bill is now getting in a frame of mind where
possibly the Lord will listen to his petitiOning
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An auto tourist reports seeing sign in the
east reading: "A town that makes life worth |
living" 1t was posted across the street from
marble orchard.
J.MC.