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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
2
An excerpt notes a rustic exchange about pride over a scholarship and a pig winning an agricultural show medal. It then promotes a physician’s formula claiming rapid cold cure using whiskey glycerine pine compound with specific dosing and packaging instructions.
A visitor questions a doctor about imaginary illnesses and imaginary pills. The doctor explains the bills are real and that he must draw them somewhere, rebutting the notion of imaginary charges. The exchange plays on wordplay about imaginary remedies and the billing.
A Jackson Michigan nurse known as Nurse Baker shares relief from backache and weakness after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She reports improved strength and the ability to resume daily work. The advertisement urges readers to remember the Dean's name, sold at 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
A note describes Ardup following Scadwell’s daughter hoping to join the Scadwell family someday. The snippet hints at personal attributions and social motives within a family context.
A Chicago man describes severe skin eruption with pus tubes and intense itching that kept him awake and disrupted work. After using Cuticura Soap ointment and pills, itching ceased in days and eruptions disappeared within three weeks with no recurrence.
Delighted mother asks how the girl likes school and she replies she likes it fine with the recess described as just right.
Instructions for using Rough on Rats in out buildings mix with food, spread on boards under floors, seal large openings for pets but allow small entrances for rats, claiming a 25 cent box can clear hundreds of rats and mice in one or two nights. Sold by druggists, E S Wells Jersey City.
A fragment quotes a verse admonishing patience and restraint when sick and waiting for a doctor. It suggests tempering anger and urging patient waiting for medical help with a hint of insistence if the doctor delays.
An advertisement touts Allen's Lung Balsam promising to cure fresh colds and stubborn lingering coughs. It lists prices of 25c 50c and 1.00. The piece also includes a slang feature and a humorous exchange about a fanatic traveler.
A mob captured John Harvard two miles from Cochran Georgia and burned him at a stake after he shot and fatally wounded WD Booth. Booth, a Hawkinsville businessman, was traveling by car when Harvard fired three shots. Booth returned fire and was wounded.
The annual report outlines estimated federal receipts from the special corporation excise tax totaling 315 million by July 1 1910 with an additional 10 million expected for 1909. It notes beer production fell while tobacco and snuff grew and array of agency expenses for the year ending 1911 is 5.30264 million dollars.
The Topeka club, the city’s most exclusive social group, refused to entertain Gov. Stubbs by a board vote. The banquet honoring Chief Justice Johnston is set for Thursday night, with Stubbs slated to speak. Stubbs formerly belonged but left after a dispute over the club’s locker system for liquor.
Judge Kohisuat in the United States district court at Chicago on Wednesday appointed receivers for the Tiieis Tunnel company and the Chicago Warehouse and Terminal company. Both firms are controlled by the Chicago Subway company valued at fifty million dollars. Secretary Knox returned the passports of Phe Ype Rodriguez the charge d affaires of Nicaragua with a sharp letter denouncing Zelaya’s government.
Brig Gen Vincent, renowned Indian fighter and key organizer of the northern volunteer army in the Civil War era, dies at his Washington DC home at age 77. The obituary notes his leadership during the early 1850s campaigns and long military involvement.
Federal Judge K M Landis ordered the Dowie Library of John Alexander Dowie be sold to a Chicago bookseller for seven thousand dollars on Wednesday. The action concludes a long probate dispute over the collection and its trustees.
Wednesday quotations report strong bids on choice heavy feeders at 450 525 dollars and top hogs at 810 dollars. The tallies reflect thin market activity with buyers stressing quality grades and prompt delivery across the Sioux City market.
Six young men charged with embezzling sums from national banks in Indiana were moved to Fort Leavenworth to begin five year sentences. The men engaged in thefts ranging from four thousand to forty thousand dollars, and their cases were concluded Wednesday.
A New York stock exchange seat fetched 96000 dollars on Wednesday setting a fresh record. The sale reflects strong demand for access to trading pits and market participation.
Indications show a statewide anti prohibition majority around 18 000 to 20 000 with Jefferson County Birmingham Mobile Montgomery and Cullman casting large against margins. Only Telledga Macon and Sumter counties favored prohibition in this statewide direct vote.
The civil service commission summoned Public Printer Donnelly to appear December 15 to show cause why a charge of insubordination was filed against John W Rodgers of the government printing office. Rodgers took paid leave to vote after foreman refusal, was discharged, later reinstated on appeal by Representative Bingham, who argued Rodgers had a legal right to absent himself.
James Howard, longtime Washington Park club secretary and famed horseman, died after an auto crash. His daughter Miss Juanita C. Howard of Chicago wed Irving Herriott beside his open casket before official license, fulfilling his dying wish.
The battleship Rhode Island, idle at the Brooklyn navy yard after the Hudson Fulton's close, sailed Monday to join the battleship fleet at Hampton Roads for further duties.
Charles Johnson a Kansas City contractor with twenty five years in the trade fell from the third floor to the basement of an under construction apartment building Tuesday and died soon after from injuries.
This year gold exports reached the $100 million mark with Argentina receiving about $48.5 million, Brazil $9.1 million, Paris $13.9 million, London $13.75 million, Japan $11.25 million, and Holland $4 million.
Chiefs of the Moroc can tribes Kabyles Beni Bourfur and Benizi formally surrendered to General Marina with ceremonial proceedings on Monday ending resistance and signaling peace in the region.
Seven feet of snow was reported at Dawson New Mexico on Monday and the widespread snowfall across the state is worth thousands of dollars to stock men.
George Benton age 19 who last week tried to rob the Peo ples bank of Mazomanie Wis was given a fourteen year sentence in the state reformatory by the court on Monday.
In a groundbreaking move the English Lords rejected formal assent to the budget bill and sent the issue to the nation for judgment. After six days of debate the vote on Lord Lansdowne's amendment stood 350 to 75, signaling a constitutional crisis and potential change in British governance.
Dr Ionnescu, dean at the University of Bucharest, arrived in New York to demonstrate a new painless anaesthetic using Stovaine injected into the spinal cord with strychnine and distilled water. The method aims to produce complete loss of consciousness with fewer after effects than ether or chloroform. Paris and London specialists express that safety in general surgery remains disputed.
Oklahoma Governor Haskell writes to the state board urging a boycott on railroads after a temporary restraining order blocks the state auditor from collecting the gross revenue tax. He favors taxing lines that paid last year and shifting state shipping to taxed roads. Davenport teen Tillie Shoemaker, 18, admits stealing a suitcase, $18, and clothing from Mrs. A E Fields and is arrested.
Charles Stewart Smith one of the last of the old merchant princes who built fortunes before the Civil War died in New York on Tuesday aged 77.
A dispatch from Marton Illinois reports one miner died and more than 100 were rescued with difficulty after a gas explosion in a nearby mine on Monday. Rescue teams battled fumes and afterdamp to reach trapped workers.
Frank White is appointed director of education for the Philippine Islands succeeding the resigned Dr Barrows. The move names a Nebraskan to lead education policy and administration in the islands.
The Canadian Pacific railroad issued warrants for 30 million dollars of common stock. This followed a shareholders meeting held on October 7.
George E. Baldwin, special Chinese inspector at Baltimore and Washington, suspended from office after investigation into charges affecting his administration.
R G Dun & Co reports robust Thanksgiving retail activity and rising solvent payments. Industrial demand remains strong with new orders in pig iron rails rail cars power and equipment. Bank clearings lead year over year and failures stay low. notable gains in building permits and realty sales accompany higher prices for factory materials.
Cold weather and approaching holidays boost retail trade and improve assorting trade with jobbers. Wholesale activity shows cross currents restricting full swing. Industrial reports indicate large outputs for the season, though buying in finished products remains subdued. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Now 25 total 211, versus 232 last week and prior years. Canada records 24 failures, down from 29 last week and 35 in 1908.
Readable ledger of commodity prices across multiple cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Cincinnati New York for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye hay butter eggs potatoes and pork. Prices listed as ranges with units and quality descriptors.
A vintage ad claims MANYON'S VITALIZER will wind up a weak man, improve nervousness irritability and masculine vigor. It markets 75 tablets per bottle and warns against quack doctors and harmful drugs. Price is $1 with address at 63rd and Jefferson Philadelphia PA.
Historical dialogue from the Chicago Tribune shows Da mon and Pythias discussing a delayed arrival and a failed notification about a new house numbering system. The exchange touches on timing, execution risk, and communication lapses.
An article touts Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming deafness from Eustachian Tube inflammation can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case due to catarrh not cured by the remedy, and promotes the sale of the product with circulars and dosing instructions for Hall's Family Pills.
A Baltimore American tease questions whether Gummidge will pursue public office. The piece suggests limited prospects for overtaking the field, framing the discussion with wry commentary and local political intrigue.
After a newly married woman is refused money two or three times she loses the one she had entertained for her husband's office keys.
A Memphis wife recounts her husband’s health improvement after stopping coffee and using Postum. The doctor suspected coffee caused stomach and heart trouble. after a year on Postum the man gained 35 pounds and regained strength. The letter praises Postum and notes a book titled The Road to Wellville.
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