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We make our own Confections and invite your attention to our MODERN
SANITARY METHODS of manufacture.
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The skill of the finest artists has been exhausted in providing new and elegant designs in Christmas
boxes and our packers fill them in beautiful array. Prices range from 15 cents a box to $10 per box.
Nothing prettier in the way of a Christmas gift could be selected. Music Every Saturday and Sunday
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SOME CURT COMMENT ON TOPICS OF INTEREST
The Evening News is of the opinion that the proposition to in
crease the mayor's salary from $1,000 a year to $2,000 a year will not
meet with favor in many quarters. We are inclined to differ from
the esteemed Evening News. The best men for mayor are not always
the ones who can afford to perfor mthe work for $1,000 a year. Nor
should the taxpayers ask any man; of ability enough to make a good
n.ayor to work for less than his services are worth. If we were to
make any criticism at all on this feature of the proposed charter we
would insist that even $2,000 is not enough. It is true that Nebraska
has had some good governors at $2,500 a year, but it is also true that
it has had some who were not worth the $2,500 paid them. Men
willing to serve for the honor are not always the best men. And
some who have sought the governorship for the honor thereof have
been sadly in need of any old kind of honor other than what they possessed.
little labor union when he tackled the immense publishing firm of P.
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coiner ex. son. ne win now nave to aig up nity tnousana aoiiars
large, round, iron dollars for having tried to make the public believe
that Collier's was blackmailing publication. '
Some months ago Collier's Weekly mentioned certain advertis
ing from Charles W. Post, manufacturer of "Grape Nuts" and "Fos
tum Cereal," claiming that some of the the assertions contained
therein were untrue. Immediately the notorious Post replied through
other mediums that Collier's Weekly lied, and asserted that Collier's
Weekly had been moved to make its statements by reason of the fact
that he, Post, had refused to advertise therein. In other words, Post
accused Collier's Weekly of attempted blackmail. Of course the
American reading public knows that Collier's Weekly would not stoop
to such practices. The publisher of Collier's immediately brought
slut for libel against Post, asking damages in the sum of $50,000. The
trial of the case has just been held and Collier's secured a verdict for
the full amount asked. . .
But Post is a wily and inventive genius. He seizes upon his own
financial misfortune to make advertising matter, and in this week's
daily papers he has half-page advertisements headed, "That suit for
libel against the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., gave a splendid chance to
bring out the facts." For once we find ourselves in agreement with
Mr. Post. It brought out the fact that Post libeled Collier's when he
said it was trying to blackmail him. It brought out the fact that
Collier's was right when it decleared that Post was making false
claim for his patent breakfast food preparations and imitation coffee.
It brought out the fact that Post can be made to pay for libeling cor
porations, and it may be that he can be made to pay for libeling
trades unionists.
Mr. Post will find it comparatively easy, to pay the $50,000.
There are enough deluded mortals in the world today willing to pay
for his patent food preparations to make fifty thousand dollars look
like small change to him. He will not even have to curtail the ex
penses of the ex-stenographer who is now occupying the place that
should still be held by the woman who stood by Post when he was
struggling for recognition, but who was discarded as soon as her
charms had faded a bit and her successful helpmate had got beyond
the pinch of poverty. We congratulate Collier's upon its vindication;
also upon its having demonstrated the fact that advertising fakirs
can be brought to book.
Collier's did not need this vindication, for no publication in
America has been more active and fearless in exposing frauds and
fraudulent claims. Had it been a weaker journal financially it would
have been ruined by libel suits, but the frauds exposed by it dared
not rheet the test, knowing that Collier's had the financial backing
to stand any legal strain. Scores of poisonous medical compounds,
made up more or less of bad whisky and worse raw alcohol, were
driven from the market by this fearless weekly. Mr. Post, consumed
by his own egotism, deemed himself the man to make Collier's eat
dirt. Mr. Post knows better now. He wasn't going up against some
Due note should be taken of the fact that in his big newspaper
advertisements Mr. Post makes public the interesting news that he
was properly cinched for having libeled Collier's.
The farce of "public investigations" is once more demonstrated.
The committee appointed to investigate the charges against Senator
"Billy" Lorimer of Illinois will soon report that Senator "Billy" is
as white as the driven snow, and as pure as the lily. A dozen men
have testified that they accepted money to vote for Lorimer.
Although he is a republican he was chosen by traitorous democratic
legislators. Maybe he did not know anything about these corrupt