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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1916
Page
4
Notice indicates Maurice Times is entered as second class matter at Maurice Iowa Post Office under the 1879 act. Subscription rates listed as $1,540 in advertisements.
Buena Vista County considers bonding for road work to avoid tax increases. Plans include grading 67 miles this year and 32 miles last year, aiming to complete 170 miles in 1918 at an estimated cost of 315 dollars for grading and gravelling. They propose selling 220000 dollars in bonds and maintaining interest and principal over nine years.
In the Republican primary voters favored incumbents with Wm Wiersman defeating sheriff candidate John Behrends by several hundred votes. Clerk of courts candidate Olin Reiniger led G Brewster by a few hundred. State senator Nick Balkema seeks reelection. Sherman Township nominees include Geo R Moir for clerk and trustees K H De wong Henry Vann Pearsem J H Aeerich. Democrats slate John Aalbert G Chapman. Republican P N Vos elected township chairman. Democrat John Linnan chosen as chair.
Instructions describe a home remedy: hold a glass of water above the head, take a deep breath, and swallow while breathing out slowly. The reader is told to look down at the glass’s bottom and then relax, using the water to stop the hiccups.
Local items report visits by Orange City and Sioux Center residents, a new cement bridge at Kots farm, Maurice events including a 4th of July celebration, and social happenings at the Overton and Van Pelt homes. Names include Mrs. J. B. Grootenhuis, Miss Anna Vander Linden, Cyril Jackson, and Miss Billa Mensink.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous fixer not a quack medicine. Claims internal remedies reach the disease seat and cites a physician’s prescription form. Offers testimonials and lists Cheney & Co as Toledo makers and local druggists as sellers.
A clerical slip in a murder case forges a date error from 1913 to 1912 on a key document. An old blank bearing P C was used, showing how legal technicalities can create absurd ends. Pittsburgh Sus ber ke.
A dental-like tonic claim urges readers to drink hot water with limestone phosphate on an empty stomach to cleanse the internal organs. It promises improved digestion, appetite, and skin health, urging readers to obtain a quarter pound of phosphate from a drug store.
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