Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-06
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A Chicago concern has installed a gym
nasium costing S1,000,000 for the use of its
employees, not charging any fee for the bene-
fits therefrom. The head of the company re-
CARDS the innovation investment, not as
charity. Still, there those who will claim
the world is not growing better. What would
have been thought of such an enterprise 10
years ago? The one proposing it would have
been declared a nut. a healthy employe Ger
tainly is TO be preferred over one with crouch
The trouble is you can't always detect the
crouch. Right living makes men better for
themselves and to those who pay their wages.
Forty-six tons of cold storage chicken were
seized by the government at Spokane. Now if
among the poor of the city it would be doing
something for humanity. But it won't. There
is the rub Simply Furnishing the offending
company doesn't help the suffering public
One of the American magazines is printing
the intimate story of the life of the wife of
the crown prince Of Germany Will the wom-
en- fall for it? And the men? They'll take
to it like duck to water whether it is so or
not. Sounds to US like some more Hun propa-
ganda You know, they say the crown prince
has been mean to his wife. Let's see what the
story says. Bet it'll show how perfectly sweet
he has been.
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In the state of Washington a farmer killed
three trespassers with three shots Alvin
York is not so many, after all.
During the trip of the president a pilot
engine is to be run ahead OF the executives
train to see that the track is clear. Unlike
the former kaiser the president is not afraid
of human attack. He merely wants to be sure
that all the bridges are in place before he
to cross. Then, too the missus is
along, and he must look after her welfare. As
stated, the president is unafraid. He is merely
cautious while. on the contrary, Wilhelm was
a coward He cringed before his own shadow.
When autoing he had a man dressed to re-
semble him seated in the fore OF the car, while
his highness hid in rear seat. This was to
mislead the assassin. who would FIRE on the
disguised one instead of the kaiser.
A woman writes the heart and home de-
of newspaper to know what it
means when she has been married 16 years.
We couldn't quite make out the answer, but
it's notion that it means that she has been
living with the same man 16 years Perhaps it
means that she has several children. Hanged
if we know.
Grand opera is to cost the patron more,
too. 1t is not explained however, whether
the notes are to be higher.
.Autost Is Shot Fifteen Times in Park
Headline. a vital spot, we'll say, but the doc
tors predict he'll recover
A woman on trial for numbering her hus-
band in Chicago Immediately after the killing
said she was glad Now she says she is sorry.
And she pouts prettily as she says so. She is
rehearsing for the jury. The state is to ask
for the death penalty. Asking and getting are
two different things Have you seen her photo?
Good looking? Certainly AcQuittal-
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He has not declared war for the reason that
he has no army.-Mexican dispatch If you
can think of any other reason you might men
ton it.
4I,o+4 Il,
ers. contrib suggests that we have a union
Of kids to demand only eight spanking hours
per day
The cross-eyed man has hard time of it.
trying to look his misfortune sGuarely in the
face.
When the contralto gets short of breath the
ought to let her come up into the air
Old customs soon get on the blink
Things alter here below.
Another decade, tailors think,
Will see hip pockets 60