25 Mar 1910
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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1910
Page
1
The Maurice Times issues every Friday and is entered as second class matter at the Maurice post office. Subscriptions are $1.25 per year if paid in advance and $1.50 if not in advance.
RAILROAD TIME CARD shows G N BR RB south and north schedules with several train numbers and times. Also lists county and city officers, supervisors, and post office hours with mail exchange rules and train connections.
News from Tokio reports the Meiji emigration firm has sent 890 Japanese workers to Peru in six months and plans 1,500 more. Laborers will toil on sugar plantations and rubber forests for low wages, with hopes to repay debts and become wealthy abroad. The firm touts low living costs while facing distrust from North and South Americans about safety and fairness.
Maurice 11 Orange City 9 in Friday baseball opener at home. Miles Crowley pitched for Maurice, limited Orange City to seven hits while Maurice allowed eight. Errors plagued both sides as Maurice pulled away with early runs and steady defense. Final score 11 to 9.
A fragment notes hams valued at 85 ets but to be sold for 25 ects per yard. The itemization is unclear and lacks additional context or entities beyond these figures.
Mrs P Hamersma improves as others go about business and election duties. Rev Ihrman and Jas De Jong attend Sioux City missionary convention while J C Emery and S Allen visit Ireton. A boy about twelve from S Swanson’s is found dead in a barn from hanging, suspected accidental due to rope play. warnings given by parents prior.
A Sour Lake Texas well booms eight times daily, each eruption delivering fifty barrels of oil in five minutes. After a three hour quiet period, a roar and a sudden rise send oil to over 100 feet, producing about 400 barrels daily without pumping. Workers synchronize watches to the noon pop-off. The owners accept the odd behavior as long as output remains high.
Local notes report H J Hawkins conducting business in LeMars, Mrs J De Kok shopping in Orange City, Sept Fuller visiting school maams, P W Moir at a Percheron sale in Sioux City. J De Kok returned from Pella after a relative's sudden death. Nyhof died at home after two weeks illness, leaving wife and seven children. Funeral in Maurice First Ref church. Interment east of town. community offers sympathy.
Ordinance 44 vacates the alley south of block 12 from Oak street to Pine street in Maurice Iowa. Town council declares the alley closed. ordinance becomes effective five days after its publication for a third time in the Maurice Times. Mayor J.C. Harrison, Clerk PLN.
Ordinance No 45 repeals a prior measure fixing councilmen pay at one dollar per regular meeting. The ordinance was adopted March 1 19 07 and becomes effective after publication in the Maurice Times. Mayor N Pp Was and Clerk J C Harrison signed the document.
A compact collection of maxims from multiple languages illustrating virtues, honesty, and wisdom. Includes lines about virtue through action, vanity, weather, theft, perception, and cunning. Notable mentions include Shakespeare and Ovid reflecting on honesty, choice, and fate.
The text notes how an old man trails behind two elderly women as they walk. It suggests aged parents blame their children's illnesses on social gaiety. It contrasts a man’s dislike of widowhood resignation with its lack of impact on a polite but insistent book agent.
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