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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
1
The Maurice Times notes J. F. van Gorkom as publisher and details weekly publication. It lists subscription rates 1.25 per year in advance and 1.50 if not prepaid, with postal information for Maurice Indiana.
GNRR timetable lists No 2 Passenger and Freight trains with times. Notable entries include 6Freight at 9:40 am and 4:27 pm, 10:15 am 10:40 am, and 2:05 pm at various stations.
Auction to be held Tuesday December 7 at 10 am on the seller’s farm located 2 miles east and 40 miles north of Ireton and 60 miles west and 3 miles south of Sioux Center. Selling 16 horses, a W N Irwin stallion, 40 Shorthorn cattle, 10 milch cows, 40 Poland China pigs, and two Poland China boars. 16 horses include multiple mares, geldings, and youngsters with weights listed. Stallion Gross Loupe to be sold at 1800. Cattle and pigs offered with calves.
A local newspaper offers cash-subscription premiums to acquire about 500 new subscribers by year end. One new cash sub gets a one-dollar premium, two subscribers receive two dollars, three subscribers three dollars, and so on. The promos frame premiums as free Christmas gifts, urging readers to subscribe now.
The piece discusses rising deficits as expenditures outpace income globally. It notes planned tax raises, larger military budgets, unemployment relief, pensions, inheritance taxes, and infrastructure costs. It warns ongoing debt growth threatens generations unborn and cites projected British and U.S. spending trends.
A column presents a math puzzle about counting living brothers and sisters and deaths. It then quotes a noisy exchange about a young man riding on a car top and local reactions. It notes Good Roads Day at the county farmers institute on Wednesday at ten o clock with speakers including Judge Hutchinson and several named figures.
Fashion notes from Paris and recent receptions show a shift from low necklines to high necked evening gowns. Designers and modistes predict future gowns will mimic the conservative lines of winter and early season, celebrated as a comfortable, stylish trend.
Major W. B. Martin, Olympic rifle champion, vents about an estate owner hiring boys to shoot pheasants. He questions the expense and methods, noting earlier incidents of boys being shot near the wood and the keepers’ cautious response.
December 3 1897 Maurice Review notes harsh winter conditions with local thermometers at 10 to 12 below early Monday. A nine pound boy was born to Mr and Mrs P Mier sma Thurstey Deer. John Suter and wife visit Suters in South Dakota near Hawarden for Thanksgiving. Wm Kuhl raffles an old horse with Mr Heus inkveld winning for 25 cents. The Yankee Detective is to be staged at the Opera House in December. Trans Mississipp Gren company of Omaha is new in Maurice while Ort on and son expand grain business locally.
The article notes women from various nations studying in foreign schools, including Japan. It mentions a Tokyo university for women established less than 17 years ago with 1,307 students and 70 alumnae, modeled on American ideas with annual fees around $14, and states women are admitted to colleges formerly for men, showing growing access to higher education.
A garbled 1900s style statistical tile lists sugar consumption thirty three pounds per person pianos produced twenty five thousand deaths from snakebite among Indian population flour quality US markets pepper trade world ships pepper trade and butter cheese consumption and patent medicine sales totaling millions.
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