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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1910
Page
3
A humorous reminiscence of a Duluth millionaire Jerome S McWade detailing a backwoods vacation with a quaint village janitor and a luncheon lobster sauce. A separate vignette shows a divorce lawyer seeking a dramatic design for 10 000 letterheads featuring Patrick Henry.
Dialogue snippet shows Polly and Dolly discussing a scene at the shore with a wind keeping a wide-brimmed straw hat in place while a judge interjects with vacuum pressure as a joke or aside.
Midshipman Raymond G. Thomas of Monticello receives a letter of commendation and a recommendation for promotion from Acting Secretary of the Navy Winthrop for rescuing a powder chest during a powder explosion aboard the Culgoa at New York Navy Yard on July 26. Thomas braved flames alone as 2100 tanks of eight inch charges were moved and the fire risk threatened mass detonation. He is a 1908 graduate.
Three prisoners escaped from Mahaska county jail in Oskaloosa early Thursday after disabling lock bolts and chloroforming the turnkey to seize pass keys. The fugitives were Isadore Podder Des Moines convicted of enticing girls into white slave traffic Lloyd Coulson Kansas City and Harry Davis Des Moines charged with grand larceny Burns Charles City and Boatman Fremont remained in the cell and alerted authorities.
Lake City reports that the Newton to Rockwell City to Gowrie stretch will be electrified soon as maintenance crews repair bridges and prepare track for ballasting. The line is expected to extend toward Sioux City, with Des Moines and Sioux City interurban plans fading and Newton extension seen as the most direct route to Des Moines.
Everett Card of Logan nearly drowned after striking the bottom of the Boyer river while diving in a stream near Logan. He was rescued by companions and carried from the water, paralyzed from the shoulders down. His condition improved slightly with better arm movement but he cannot move his lower limbs.
Paul Pandarvis, 14, found in a Cedar pasture with a fractured skull and died shortly after. He may have been thrown from a horse he rode. J H Conners of Des Moines and H Tulley of Springfield injured in a Missouri Oklahoma and Gulf train wreck near Muskogee from spreading rails. No fatalities. Gov B F Carroll leaves for Sparta Wisconsin to review Iowa National Guard encampment with Adjt Gen Logan. Anton Yeager locates wife and three children in Chicago after three weeks of missing journey from Burlington to Ohio City and back. Mrs Yeager mentally collapsed. Yeager reunites family.
Town alarmed by diphtheria threat as river improvement plan near Boyer river approved. Project will lower and widen the channel over 16 000 feet, with 42 660 cubic yards removed. Archaeologist R F Gilder to visit Harrison county to study mound builder remains and a possible village site. Frank Nickanesky buys 151 acre Bunker farm in Tama county at 62 50 per acre. Buckingham hogs drop from a strange ailment like hog cholera.
Try The This Summer step up to a soda fountain for a cooling Coca Cola. It claims refreshment relief from fatigue and thirst at fountains or bottled for 5c. Request free booklet The Truth About Coca-Cola and a 20 stamp for the Baseball Record Book 1910 with Casey at the Bat and schedules.
Archie Campbell, manager of the Last Chance mining property near Death Valley, rushed to identify a man found in a frightful state on the desert. The unidentified traveler, sunburned, unclothed, and crazed with a swollen tongue, was conveyed to camp but died an hour after drinking water.
An old advertisement touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as the long standing standard for women's ailments. It claims quick and permanent results and lists sale through all drug stores. The text also mentions Mrs Winstow's Soothing Syrup and Fectain for children with brief quips and a betting proverb.
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