The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-02-23

i An old-timer can remember when Ken
I tuckian thought alcohol denatured if you added
a little water.-Pioneer Press.
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1 A great many people are too much like the
weather. You can't tell what they're going to
/ be like the next time you see them.-New Orleans
Picayune.
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4 One of the country exchanges has likened
Mrs. Charlie Chaplins struggle to collect ali
mony to newspapers efforts to collect from de-
linquent subscribers
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Life in the United States senate has lost
much of it's old charm since some of the members
lost their chubby spirit and began asking mean
questions about how other members got in
Elmira Gazette
A college coach once told his boat crew,
when you come to the time when you feel you
cannot pull another stroke, then sit up and row"
Not bad precept for the Northwest to follow
under present conditions.
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Two-tone corduroy trousers and polka dot
ties with spots as big as marbles were two of
the "style features" for men brought out at a
meeting of clothiers in Minneapolis last week.
This is going to be t-ur-r-ible spring!
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| When a merchant comes into our shop to
get prices on printing merchandise he credits our
seemingly high price to the frightful high cost
of living and to our profiteering. When we go
to his shop for merchandise he tells us his price
is based on cost plus only a fair margin of pro-
fit. 1t all depends upon whose OK is being gored.
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Montgomery Wards sales in 1926 were $751;
O0O, 100000 above those of 1925. The December
1926 sales were the largest of any month in the
ICompany's history. Sales for 1926 of Sears Roe
buck and Company also show an approximate
increase of $15,OO0,O000O over 1925. There is
still plenty of business in the old Northwest for
them as knows how to go after it.
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Well, anyway, while the legislative boys are
debating about a lot of those bills, they might
pass the one about changing election hours and
get that much out of the way There is no pos
sble debate on the question of the rightness of
that. With the Brown County Journal we rise
to inquire "What is the Legislature waiting for"
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Whether the Minneapolis business men are
right or wrong in their fight against the Nc
Nary Haugen bill their gesture has given Frank
Day fine opportunity for his much loved bust
of oratory and Frank assuredly made the best
of said opportunity "Perfidy, s"infamy," "cou-
pom clippers" "the gauntlet"-all of Franks old
favorites he worked into his fiery outburst, thus
putting himself on the front page of the Mime
apolis papers. Frank is canny soul!
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Larry Ho addressed the Democratic Club at
Minneapolis last week and the advice he gave
that organization is just fit for Republican
Club or any other organization which is trying
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of the things Larry told 'em:
cts time to forget all about the
republican party and establish definite
platform of our own" and that 1--WE must
make up our minds that no party can
ride into office merely by sitting back
and criticising what the other fellow is
doing"
1.-THE time has come" he declared,
''to raise our hands against the wave of
of Capitalization that is engulfing the
government 1t must be stopped before
the day comes when so per cent of our
population is placed the government
payroll to keep check on what the other
half are doing"
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Bank guaranty laws are expensive for the
depositor. In Nebraska the banks reduced the
rate of interest on C. DIS one per cent and pay
one-fourth OF one per cent into the guaranty
fund.- taking a profit of three-fourths of one per
cent. The laws limit the interest that q bank
can pay and if they want to pay more, it is nee
essary to stamp in red ink across the face of the
certificate mot subject to guaranty law" or
words to that effect The law was in operation
long enough to enable the state to builA up .
good reserve, which helped materially in the
present situation. There is no question that the
law has worked well in Nebraska but it has been
expensive protection for the depositors. They
have paid 81 for 81 worth of protection. In the
long run the depositors sacrificed considerable
under the law.-Springfield Advance.
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This is the time and generation when boys
and girls seem inclined to hurdle the teens in
one wild leap. jumping straight from the tens
and twelves into the twenties, losing all the glad
and happy growing-up days in between In 9TH
er words these youngsters are anxious, wildly