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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1919
Page
4
Improved and unimproved farms available in Hughes, Stills, Hyde and Southern Potter Counties from 28.75 per acre. Dakota Land Co offers thousands of farm listings with free showing. financing at 6 percent with expenses paid on purchase. Agents in Sioux County Iowa.
The Dakota Land Company headed by E C Cole lists farms in South Dakota and Sioux County Iowa with extensive pricing data. Totals show small differences across entries and an average price around 34 dollars per unit, reflecting regional land listings and agents based in Maurice, Iowa.
Local notice details rates for display and local advertising. Rates listed: front page 20 cents per inch. all other positions 15 cents per inch. local advertising 10 cents per line. black face type 15 cents per line. Subscription 1.50 annually. Second class mail registration noted.
A garbled timetable fragment lists east bound No 2 and 24 22 passenger services with several times 4 40 p m 7 45 a m and 5 68 p m Also references west bound No 25 passenger daily except Sunday and No 3 022222 5 68 p m with weekday Saturday services
The Maurice Iowa council met in regular session with Mayor Chas Duven present. Absent were De Groot and Borrink. A tele phone franchise request from Maurice Telephone Co. was referred to a two member committee VanderBerg and Mensink to draft and present at the next meeting. Several bills were approved including J L Anners telephoning 30c Crowley street work 26.00 Hop street dragging 24.00 Cole printing 4.15. The meeting adjourned with John Mieras as clerk.
Readers learn that Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure catarrh through constitutional treatment, acting via the blood to mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and invite testimonials from customers.
The Minute Men were a citizen corps active at short notice. They emerged in the era before the American Revolution and again at the Civil War’s outset. They were sometimes organized as militia and pledged to rapid field service.
The quote reflects Thomas Jefferson contrasting a benevolent position with a fertile, well watered land near a thriving market. He muses that heaven would choose a favorable calling, acknowledging the value of a fruitful occupation and accessible commerce.
A New York Sun note claims 128000645 slaves worked 14 hours daily for three centuries to raise Egypt’s pyramids and that mummy exports have yielded 37008000 in total.
The text offers guidance on honesty and restraint in dialogue. It warns that failing to tell the truth should result in saying nothing. It also suggests if answering would embarrass both speaker and questioner, one should refuse or avoid the answer.
The United States Geological Survey warns of an upcoming general coal shortage this fall and winter. Mines idle without orders risk low supply. production must rise to about 10,700,000 tons weekly from June 1 to January 1 to meet an estimated 500,000,000 tons needed this year. Delayed orders could trigger shortages for households, utilities, and industry.
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