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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
3
A New York Press quote recalls a traveler waiting four hours in Shannonville between Toronto and Montreal. An impassive clergyman tells him the Almighty alone knows when the freight train with seventeen cars and one coach will arrive.
The House approved the conference tariff report by 195 to 183 after a long session. Twenty Republicans voted against adoption. two Democrats Broussard and Estopinal supported the report. A prior motion to recommit failed 186 to 191 as Payne maneuvered to block a direct vote on report features. Alleged jokers in the conference report on lumber and leather sparked sensational talk among progressive senators.
William H Marker, cashier at the First National Bank of Tipton Indiana and brother of Noah St Marker, has resigned amid defalcations alleged to exceed $100,000. A bank examination by Miller Weir reveals forged notes and checks bearing signatures of prominent residents, with shortages expected around $110,000 or more.
A man threatened to kidnap Frances McClurg, 17, and dynamite the family home unless $10,000 was paid to a messenger. James A. McClurg, the son in law of banker D. C. Moffat, notified police. Detectives shadowed the supposed courier, but the blackmailer failed to appear.
Mrs Bailey mother of five drowned her two year old son in a rain barrel and then hanged herself on the back porch. The husband found her body at sunrise.
Orville Wright with Wilbur’s design and Lt Foulois piloted a ten mile cross country flight near Washington. The machine reached nearly 500 feet, averaged about 200 feet, and landed in 14 minutes 42 seconds. President Taft witnessed the demonstration and sent congratulations via Col Treat.
A clash at the McKees Rocks pressed steel car plant in Pennsylvania left Trooper Stanford Morris critically injured with internal damage and two broken fingers after being attacked by a crowd of foreigners. Three strikers were seriously shot and many others wounded as hundreds of shots were fired in the crowd still under patrol by troopers.
Harry C Pulliam president of the National League shot himself in the New York Athletic Club room. The bullet passed through his head from right to left, destroying both eyes and causing his death on Thursday. Ill health was given as the motive for the act.
A portside tale recalls the Emma S struck by lightning and saved by a topsail. a landsman watches as Captain Ell explains the repair. Separate French notes praise women in work from Paris stone cutters to a Froissy telegraph messenger and band drummer.
William Nilsson, gravely ill and fleeing justice, walked into Kansas City police headquarters and confessed to forgery in Janesville Wisconsin two years earlier. He said his wife is dying and his baby is dead following a streetcar accident in California.
The Iroquois Pearl Company plant workers in Prairie du Chien Wisconsin walked off for higher wages. In Superior Wisconsin Carnegie Coal Co plans a 1 million dollar new dock project with Schmidt Bros Hill as contractors employing about 200 men.
A survey traces the roots of dances from Germany to Italy and France, noting waltz origins with the landler, Vienna refinements, and influences such as the polka, gallop, and mazurka. It credits German, Bohemian, Italian and French regions with key steps and regional styles.
A woman six months into marriage is less pursued by tradesmen for her husband’s eating wants. The piece notes that men often desire something so strongly they overlook another man’s reluctance to share.
In Mrs Poole's dining room a stringed band hidden behind flowers plays an air from a Mergerbeer opera. Laughter shifts to a shy, young stranger invited to converse regarding Meyerbeer as a bold, distant reply ends the attempt.
An old advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney irregularities and back pains, citing Mrs. John B. Whittaker of Madison Indiana and urging readers to “Remember the name Doan's.” It also includes other remedies and a brief anecdote about a Kansas train wreck and a critique of power.
A Richmond Virginia woman credits Postum and Grape-Nuts with a dramatic health turn after years of coffee use. She reports weight gain, renewed energy, memory improvement, and regained walking stamina, urging others to read the testimonial in The Road to Wellville and consider giving up coffee.
A Philadelphia advertisement invites readers to request a free medical examination blank. Munyon’s eminent doctors will diagnose the reader’s case. if curable, they will say so, if not, they will say so. No obligation or fee. Mail a request to Munyon’s at 538d and Jefferson streets.
A Cape Colony paper declares new rade is dead and worsening daily, while an old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething relief and inflammation reduction priced at two shillings a bottle.
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