Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1911 — No Need of Bradstreet [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

No Need of Bradstreet

Seaside Hotel Proprietor—l see you have given our finest suite of rooms tp a min named Bllkina. Are you sure he can pay the rates? Clerk —Yes; he’s immensely rich. Proprietor—How do you know? Clerk —He is old and ugly and his wife la young and pretty.

Mrs. Asketi (in grocery)—Don't yea give a baker's dosen? Grocer (counting eggs)—No’m. Thirteen is an unlucky number and I’m very superstitious.