Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1911 — Ten-tWENT'-Thirt’. [ARTICLE]

Ten-tWENT'-Thirt’.

“Yes, sir,” says the man from somewhere near the Mississippi river, "I’m telling you the absolute truth when I say that Richard Mansfield played my town once for ten, twenty and thirty.” “What?” asks the other man. “That must have been a good many years ago. if it ever was at all.” “No, sir. It was last season.” “Man, you talk as If you thought I were a fool.”

"But he did. He was billed for one night only, a crowd of ticket speculators cornered all the seats, and prices went up to $lO, S2O and S3O with a whoop.”