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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
4
Local ad promotes a 40 dollar Columbia Bicycle as a gift for magazine subscriptions. It also lists assorted items and prices including soft coal at 6.50 and meat sold by the quarter. The text mentions Maurice Meat Market and an address on East 22d Street in New York City.
A collage of maxims from Socrates Seneca Johnson Carlyle Ruskin and Stevenson. The pieces urge virtue consistency courage self reliance and labor as paths to true good and meaningful living.
In a Persian tale recounted by William F. Doty, English tourists dine in Tabriz with Prince Kamil. The prince, richly dressed in gold and white, remains taciturn and finally quips that the Englishmen remove all their pretty women from the Persian book, eliciting surprise from the host's tall lean wife.
The column shares holiday wishes and assorted notes from Orange City and nearby towns. It mentions visits by John Myers to Alcester, a home meat market offer, hog sales totaling 820 dollars, moving and residence changes, local auctions, printing services, and community events at the Ben Kots school house with proceeds for an organ.
Sore throat reports and social updates fill this page. Roland Mieras and families visit Alton, Ben Den Oudens improve, J Hopp calls at the county seat, and infant Wm Lehr sick with bronchitis. A moving picture show, portraits at Maurice Studio, and found scoop shovel near Maurice are noted. John Vanden Brink store closes Saturday. Doctors Oged and Mosher operate on Chas Shoemaker with hopeful but fragile recovery. Jas De Jong hosts 35th wedding anniversary. guests celebrate. Public schools close for a week. Lillian Mieras recovers from tonsillitis. Omar Hamer visits Struble. Maurice Studio enlargements offered. Hicks Weather Forecasts advertised. readings about Warping Works subscription and periodicals promoted.
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