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TUESDAY, APRIL 6. 1013 IOWA CITY DAILY PRESS PAGE FIVE THE ECONOMY ADVERTISING CO. One of the most helpfu! industries 10 Iowa City, both from the standpoint of employment of wage-workers and the advertising of lowa City in a favorable way, is the Bconomy ertising Co. This concern is one of the largest printing etablishments in the state. employing something like seventy people, and selling its products all over the central and western states.

This -establishment an extensive, and in many particulars an exclusive line of calendars, supplies, leather goods, yard-sticks, aprons, and many other articles in the line of advertising novelties. It also specializes in fine book printing, and does a general line of job printing. The business of this establishment has been built up through a series of years. and is steadily increasing in volume and in the extent of the territory covered. 2 Keep 10,000 Fleeces Fifty Years.

Ten thousand fleeces, which bare been stored for 50 years in 2 big colnshire granary with slanting ashpoles to prevent them from touching the brickwork, have been purchased by T. W. Mays Sons of Bourne, Lincolnshire. The fleeces were the prop erty of the late Sam Gooseman, North Lincolnshire agriculturist, who died last autumn. They were in splen did Mail German East Africa.

1 The territory known as East Africa borders on the Indian Ocean between 5 degrees and 11 de south latitude and extends intc grees the interior of Africa as far as Lake Tangenyika. It is about 100 miles long and 600 miles wide. and embraces en area of approximately 384 000 square miles, equivalent to thr combined area of Texas and New Mexico The Reason. "Pa, why are torrents raging?" "1 suppose they are like people, and are raging because somebody is trying to cross them." Literary Note. Some authors remind you of Uncle Jim's poll parrot who got a reputation for being smart by using bad guage.

H. L. SAILEY, INSURANCE AND SONDE. There exists in every city and state species of pride, based upon a certain type of patriotism--for it is akin to lore of country---that nourishes and thrives upon obeervation of the success of tide individuals of those communities. In other words, men and women of Iowa City and Johnson countY, for example, are proud of the other men and women of that city and that County who achieve the distinction in commercial or professional circles known as "making one's Among the "native of JohnSOD county who have attested repeatedly possession of the qualities and qualifications thac make for success, and whose past career, though still a young man, bespeaks the do ing of things in the future, is H.

Bailer. Mfr. Baller stands in the front rank of Iowa City's "live wire" insurance salesmen and bond men. He represents many of the greatest insurance companies in America and the world and the country's greatest bonding corporations, as well One of the evidences of the great strength and stability of Mr. Bailey's insurance companies came a fen 'years ago, when the San Francisco earthquakes and fires, resuitant therefrom, destrored millions of property insured in his companies.

The awful holocaust and the seismic shocks swept many an insurance company to ruin, forcing an announcement that payment was impossible, in the face of the terrific onslaughts on its treasury. On the contrary, Mr. Bailer's companies were unharmed. They met erery obligation, after the Golden Gate calamity; paid their millions of dollars' losses promptly, and then "came up smiling" after effecting all setlements, with an unweakened surplus. It is the time of storm and stress that tests insurance companies, and Dr.

Bailey's countless friends are delighted that be has cast his lot with such sterling institutions. They will continue to carry thousands of dollars worth of insurance with him, and wish him continued good fortune every field of endeavor. One of his latest enterprises by the way, is one of his most successul-the Iowa Flexotile Company of which he is we retary and treadurer. This is the big organization that is to provide "Flexotile" flooring for the numerous new structures including 1 the Johnson County Saving Bank block; the Iowa City high school manual training building; and! the state institution at Independence the later contract being awarded by the Iowa State Board of Conrol, after! competitne biding. One Unconsolable Grief.

Hany housekeepers can sympathize with the old Virginia lady who said to her friend, on finding treasured old cap cracked by a careless maid: "I know of nothing to compare with the amiction of losing a handsome piece of old china." "Surely." sald the friend, "it is not so bad as losing one's children." "Yes it is, for wher your children die you do have the con solation of religion, you know." Cheap Way to Mount Pictures. To mount pictures inexpensively for the nursery or children's bedrooms, cut all the white margia off the picture, then get some thin. smooth boards 144 luch larger all round than the picture; stain the boards with dark oak stain about (wo inches round the edge; varnish them, then paste the picture on the board. leaving an eren edge of the stained wood al! round; hang on the walls in the Coual war. Altered the Case.

In one revue I caricatured a famous dancer. A little while after, while abroad, I was told that the husband of the lady was looking for we with a big stick. A few weeks later I returned! to London. I met the husband, who shook me warmly by the band and thanked me effusively for the skit on his wife. They had quarreled in the interval- Grossmith in The Tatler.

Content. I would have nobody control me; 1 would be absolute, and who but Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.vantes. Her Dearest Desire. Nearly every woman wants her hus band to make his mark, so that she: may smile derisively at ber relatives.

who thought she threw herself away when she became his wife. WM. HORRABIN, M. MONTGOMERY, President and Manager Secretary and Treasurer Mile of Sand and Railway Gravel Track Along Supply Is Iowa River Inexhaustible The Wm. Horrabin Sand and Material Co.

Plant and Sand Pit, Horrabin, Iowa If you want Cement, write us. We keep UNIVERSAL PORTLAND the Universal Portland CEMENT Cement. Nothing Better and Prices are Right. WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE PRICES OFFICE: IOWA CITY, IOWA The Economy Advertising Co. 227-231 Washington St.

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