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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1916
Page
9
Local items list visitors and births, church activities, school exams, and community gatherings. Names include Dayen, Westbrook, Hop, Nuéffer, De Groot, Oggel, Mensink, Brink, Wassenaar, Van Wyk, Ter Tone, Erickson, Gillette, Wakefield, De Jager, O Hare, Harrison. July 2 Lutherans picnic scheduled near Maurice with drills races and dialogues at 1 30 PM.
A dated ad for The Hygienist monthly magazine by Dr R R Daniels offers health tips and a personal vigor boost. It claims readers will gain real health and unlimited energy and mentions a six for twenty five cent offer from a publishing company in Denver.
A. Sherman and wife returned from a Wisconsin visit while John Van Peursem comes home from Holland Michigan to spend vacation. Leo Moran leaves for Des Moines to resume studies in a commercial college. A post office front bombardment with fireworks left minor wounds to Postmaster Wieras and Agent Cheever. A juvenile party at the Umhoefer home hosted many children with games and treats ending with small gifts.
Fourth of July program includes sunrise salute of 100 guns at 10:00 A.M. parade at 10:45 A.M. music, welcome by C Emery, and oration by George C. Scott of Sioux City. Events feature a foot race, ball game Grange City vs Hawarden, town versus country contest, band concert, fireworks, and prizes for best decorated auto and best parade float.
A farmer hired two little girls to cut yard debris for ten cents per square rod, earning small sums before wind scattered twigs. A new deal paid two cents per basket of twigs, yielding brighter coins as the yard cleared. He then raised to ten cents per bushel for dandelions, successfully producing measurable results.
A fragmentary dialogue shows two drummers debating a hotel incident in Spottsville. One claims Leonid was arrested for saving the hotel, the other insists the landlord had him jailed for a different matter, with the word play fueling confusion.
The Greater Iowa Association reports that the State Highway Commission yields profit to taxpayers rather than cost. It cites 1913 Sioux County bridge contracts at 16.48 per yard and 1915 work at 11.27 per yard, claiming savings of over 21,000. Clinton County projects allegedly reduced costs after commission involvement.
Amid chaotic reshuffles in French politics W M Rene Viviani forms a new cabinet after calls from President Poincare. He brings order to a fractured ministry with Ribot and Doumergue, uniting leaders from warring factions as war looms.
The report notes a bottle found along the shore connected to Edward C O N and a Piet Belisle, with references to a will dated years earlier and a disputed claim over property valued at about 8250 500. Authorities mention a Seafart man and a Montra native amid the case.
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