Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1912 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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NICE OF HIM. “Would you like to get a ticket to the convention?” "Sure." "Would you care to take your wife?" “I’d be delighted to have a chance to do so. She has never seen a big convention.” "Have you any friends you’d care to - take?" "Say, old man, this is very nice of you. I don’t want to Impose on your good nature, but there are three or four people I’d like mighty well to take. How did you manage ’to get them?” “How did I manage to get what?” “The tickets. I understand one has to have a mighty strong pull to even get one.” “Oh, I haven’t any. I merely asked whether youfd care to go and take your friends/if you could. .. . Well, seeing that you insist, I will take a cigar—yes.”