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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1910
Page
2
Leon Guypon the New York artist and illustrator shot himself in his studio. He had been ill with heart trouble and told friends he might die at any moment. He left 21212 to Agnes Foster and Merrill in a will, and requested cremation.
In Denver at the annual convention the National Mother’s Confederation endorses a new national department headed by a woman. Resolutions favor the home and child department, citing Roosevelt support. Holden of Denver reads on mothers’ responsibility in tuberculosis prevention and warns against youth exposure to late hours and shared drinking cups leading to illness.
The Merchants' Stock & Grain Co of St. Louis told customers no further trades would be made in stocks grain or provisions. Manager Frank J Miner was convicted as telegraph piracy tied to bucketshop operations. Paris police crack white slave ring with two Spaniards arrested for escorting four girls to St Nazaire. Attorney General Stead says inheritance tax special attorney fees paid by counties are unwarranted.
A cross country aeroplane flight from St Enuns to Kansas City is scheduled for July. The event offers a prize of at least 10,000 with potential for higher amounts.
An advertisement for Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills claims they cure constipation indigestion jaundice billousness sour stomach and related stomach and liver ailments. It offers a free sample by mail from Munyon's Homeopathic Home Remedy Co at 53rd and Jefferson Streets Philadelphia Va.
Dr Carl Webber in New York City performed the first appendicitis operation in 1866 without antiseptics. Instruments were primitive and stomach cutting was unknown. The patient survived and remains in New York today. A separate note mentions winds and sand storms causing eyelid granulation and PET TIT S EYE SALVE advertised for 25c by Howard Bros Buffalo. An ad ends with a proverb about raising a son.
Canada offers strong investment and living prospects as farm land values rise 15 to 20 percent this spring. Railways traverse settled districts, with good roads and accessible markets. A free homestead of 160 acres can yield substantial annual profits, and land value grows with residence duties met. Thousands of U.S. farmers are moving north, seeking steady crops and favorable government rail rates. Government literature and agents in the U.S. assist locating land near rail lines for future growth.
Sioux City business leaders organize an aviation meet at Woodland park Riverside for June 29 to July 1 under the Sioux City Commercial Club. Curtiss machine and aides Willard and Mars will fly, with trials in endurance height and slow flight. A band concert and Western League games at Mizzou park accompany the event drawing large crowds.
A Cologne dispatch reports about 150 dead in the Aher valley of the Eifel after a cloudburst Sunday night. High waters overwhelmed two railway barracks housing Italian and Croatian laborers, trapping them in their sleep as the stream surged. Thirty seven bodies were recovered at that time.
Dr. John M Grant, a leading St Louis physician, was shot twice by Aloysus W Rayne, a department store driver, as he alighted from his car near his office. Rayne was arrested after a stenographer said the driver moved the wagon on orders from the doctor.
Lord Kitchener refused the appointment as Inspector General of the Mediterranean forces he was named to last August, a decision conveyed officially to the House of Commons by War Secretary Richard B. Haldane on Monday. A Jewish girl from Kiev attempted suicide while being transported to Odessa after expulsion orders were issued, plunging from a moving express train she survived but was unconscious. In Breathitt County a factional clash ended with Miles Crawford shot and killed by Ilisha Johnson near Athol on Sunday night.
Mayor Gaynor of New York received visitors Monday Louis and Temple Abernethy sons of Marshal Jack Abernathy of Oklahoma who accompanied the young men to the city hall.
From Cananea Mexico a special reports forest fires cover a 25 mile stretch in the Ojo and Manzananal mountains of Sonora. The fires threaten timber, pastures, and local herds as firefighters battle blazes across rugged terrain. News notes no casualties are yet reported.
David Ranken Jr a 75 year old St Louis bachelor who made his fortune in real estate and stocks has given more than 3 million dollars to the David Ranken Jr school of mechanical trades and will leave 3000 a year for his own support to revert to the school at his death. The donor shuns publicity and prefers to keep details to the trustees. His gift includes home stock holdings in Illinois Central and Rock Island railroads and four local banks.
A Washington DC based organization plans a nationwide anti graft drive with offices opened this week. Warry W Walker to lead the effort as prominent figures including Perry Belmont Rudolph Spreckels Augustus Thomas Joseph Willett and Norman Hapgood are linked to the movement. A first national convention is expected to be set in Paris this week during talks between Belmont and Spreckels.
A coroner's autopsy on Mrs. Margaret Smollen, who died last Friday in a New York private sanatorium, found death from general septicemia due to natural causes. She was G. Howland Leavitt's daughter from Bayside L I and earlier wed Joe Smollen, the Candy Kid, who served as chauffeur and valet for James Corbett before working for her father. They lived together briefly before separating.
Harry B. Kay a 34 year old former Pasadena Cal barn cashier died by self inflicted gunshot in Pocatella Idaho on Wednesday. He had been en route to his St. Joseph Missouri home after a hunting trip in Idaho and left sudden unknown cause for his action despite ample funds.
A fire swept along Seattle's northern waterfront during a Friday night storm, reaching a district of wooden buildings to the east. In a short time about twenty acres burned, inflicting a loss of 450000 dollars and leaving 500 people homeless.
Judge Harris of Tiptonville Tennessee was drowned Saturday afternoon in the Mississippi River near his home. His life was said to be repeatedly sought by night riders.
In the wreck near Indianapolis Indiana on Sunday Lennie Alberts of Pittsburg Pennsylvania was killed instantly when the automobile plunged into a ditch and Alberts was pinned under the wreckage killing her. Two chorus girls were involved.
Three Polish miners were killed by a cave-in at the Homer mines near Nelson British Columbia on Saturday night. The accident halted operations as crews searched for remaining hazards and authorities began inquiries into the cause.
Judges Groscup, Baker and Seaman in the United States circuit court at Chicago Saturday refused to enjoin the interstate commerce commission from reducing sleeping car rates.
Isador Gluckstadt, director of the Lundmands bank in Copenhagen, a leading figure in Danish banking for forty years, died Sunday.
R G Dun and Co reports minimal variation in Chicago trade with a small drop in bank payments and more confident outlook. Production and distribution improve, transportation rate hopes buoy forwarders, and weather and crop reports support activity. Markets for dry goods and apparel rise. bonds and local securities lag last year while realty investment grows. Bank clearings reach 267,723,901, down 2.6 percent from 1909. Failures total eighteen in Chicago district, with seven over 5,000 dollars.
Unseasonably cool weather keeps retail trade slow in the northern United States while southern districts show modest crop progress in cotton and fruit. Jobbing demand remains quiet with small, frequent reorders. Industrial output falls, collections vary from slow to fair. U S weekly business failures total 189, Canada 36, in the week ending June 9 per Bradstreet's.
Regional price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo Toledo Cincinnati New York wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs and potatoes. Prices show shipping and quality categories with bid ranges from $3.00 to $10.00 for hogs and $3.50 to $9.75 for cattle, wheat mostly $1.00 to $1.10, corn 58c to 69c, oats around 35c to 41c, butter 24c to 36c, eggs 16c to 21c, with city variation and No 2 or standard grades reflected. Long list of regional values in compact bulletin style.
The Brunswick Record reports a city case on High street where two red squirrels inhabit a home and suggests their potential as allies in Browntail moth control. Last year seven nests were found near their home, while this year nests are sparse in those trees despite widespread Browntail nests elsewhere. Observers are urged to note the squirrels’ pest-clearing habits.
A Hoopeston resident credits Doan's Kidney Pills with a lasting recovery from two years of back pain chills and swollen feet due to kidney trouble. The ad notes the product price and maker Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. A separate narrative follows a lost child scene with Uncle Ned and police officers at a park station house, ending with a humorous reunion over bananas.
A Washington Star quip references Rolla with a joke about appendicitis and doctors. It frames a joke where surgery supposedly enables a doctor to drain a patient’s finances, contrasting a serious medical condition with a financial punchline.
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