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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
3
A vintage ad touts Doan's Kidney Pills as the best remedy for weak kidneys and related ailments. Dr H Green of Yakima endorses the product, and Foster Milburn Co sells it for 50 cents a box. Also includes short humor about a drummer and a cockney dog dealer.
A trimmed collection of quotes and ads notes Carbroke delaying meat payment causing price rises, with Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets promoted to regulate stomach liver and bowels. A cheeky line urges young girls to value birthdays before they fade with age.
A painting by Cummings draws buyers as fuses threaten action in the art market. Officials weigh buying the piece amid controversy over provenance and price. The episode highlights tensions in regional galleries and collector circles.
Des Moines reports a state historic department decision not to buy the Gray oil portrait of Senator A B Cummins for display. Curator Harlan notes private purchase could alter the outcome while Cummins supporters allege a political motive tied to a Taft portrait dispute at the Colliseum.
Ex Senator Charles John Alfred Ericson philanthropist and banker president dies Sunday at 11 30 after appendicitis operation. He was 68 and had just returned from a four month world tour in good health. Also reported missing is Andrew Sorenson former Council Bluffs police member last seen May 21 leaving his ranch near Hecla Nebraska. No motive given for disappearance.
The Fort Dodge Commercial club hosted Corn Belt Packing officers to mourn the second fire at its new plant and pledged a 15000 dollar bonus to guarantee rebuilding a fire proof facility. Rebuilding is now practically assured.
Olaf Rosengren aged 75 of Stratford dies suddenly. Forest service clerks named Ray W. Smith and Fred J. Thompson. Winterset lights 39 new electroliers along the square to the station. some lit Saturday night, full rollout soon. Six year old Forrest McDougal dies from a live wire contact in Waterloo. Clay county to get a Seth Thomas clock for the Spencer courthouse at 1298 dollars, faces illuminated at night. 60 day installation. Mapleton church work advances. cornerstone to be laid August 14. Mapleton Gas Co reorganizes to fund a crude oil plant, old stock exchanged at 20 cents. Marshalltown church calls Rev. B. F. Martin from Burlington. Spencer merchants raise 2000 for electroliers on business streets, 24 poles planned.
Charles Boydston survived a 31 foot fall from a Hoone tree suffering multiple fractures and a possible fatal outlook. A jail escape attempt in Marshalltown involved James Pokasta and Barney Halverson cutting bars with scissors. both confessed after 24 hours in steel cells. Dwight Williams, 15, swallowed a silver half dollar near Neola. surgery in Omaha recovered the coin from his intestines after an X-ray located the obstruction. Reverend N M Hodgin resigns from Marshalltown Friends church to accept Bangor Iowa post. County officials in Harrison appoint McCabe, McEwen, and Van Scoy to appraise Soldier River drainage district. Sioux Rapids trio charged in Cornell depot wrecking.
Iowa Attorney General Byers files ICC actions against seven large railroads over through rates as new law becomes effective August 17. The move aims to save shippers millions if successful. Also, corn root worm damage could hit Iowa crops by 320 million dollars this year, with crop rotation as the remedy.
A Providence tale recalls Bishop William M. McVickar’s towering presence and a Foster town challenge. In Foster a fighter boasted of chasing the bishop to Providence, then publicly claimed he would lick him. The anecdote, relayed by Boston readers, underscores the bishop’s formidable yet gentle reputation.
The Battered odds and ends mention a Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910 with schedules and other baseball data sent by Coca-Cola Co of Atlanta on payment of postage. It also advertises The Truth About Coca-Cola and urges consumption at soda fountains and bottled forms.
In a humorous dialogue a character makes a late home confession to a wife. He claims he and Augustus Jones were hunting mushrooms and teases their find by saying the mushrooms are in his vest pocket. The exchange highlights playful banter and mischief.
A stylized fragment depicts Charon the ferryman crossing the Styx with a shade lamenting wine scenery for a toothpowder ad. It promotes Marine Eye Salve by Marine Hye Remedy Co., urging readers to try trial size tubes at 25 cents.
A druggist says business is brisk with purchases for two picnics and four excursions this morning and donations for several indoor events. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is noted for teething relief and easing wind colic. The quip suggests many a girl who refuses to stay single also refuses to stay married.
A dialogue reveals a flirtatious memory where she recalls his grand promises that the sun would stop shining and the moon would fall unless she pledged ownership. He half recalls such statements and questions the purpose of revisiting them. She expresses regret at not letting the celestial warnings come true.
An old advertisement touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as a seventeen year standard remedy for women's ailments with claims of rapid, permanent results and availability at drug stores. The piece ends with a light aside about a character described as uncouth eating a lettuce leaf the salad rests on.
Quote contrasts values and cites varying rates at which Pittsburg councilmen were purchased. The excerpt frames bribery as a measure of character linked to public duty and governance.
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