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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1916
Page
7
A 1915 warning notes that fly poison kills more children than all other poisons combined. It urges safe use and storage, citing rising cases in 1914 and stressing home precautions to keep such poison away from babies.
A beadle voices a wary forecast about church seating as changes draw attention. He notes ministers may gain popularity while affirming there is abundant room, pondering how to accommodate a more popular leader.
A fragmented exchange questions a dead man’s ability to defend himself while tracing lineage to an Irish king and noting the onset of hostilities. The odd dialogue suggests a courtroom or wartime reflection on justice and identity.
The quote asserts that success requires a willingness to risk failure. It frames failure as a natural step toward achievement and emphasizes courageous experimentation rather than guaranteed safety.
In New York a hotel chief engineer feeds seven fox terrier puppies born to his dogs. The animals live in a subbasement nursery, receiving warm milks through tiny nipples three times daily from sterilized bottles. The pups, kept away from the surface, are growing fat and playful under careful care.
New York University offers a social usage and etiquette course taught by assistant English professor Arthur Be Nason. The class, though not official yet, draws medical preparatory students seeking professional communication skills with patients and hosts.
A Shreveport contractor and three helpers dug on Fairfield avenue near Dr J M Comegys home hoping for buried treasure or a gold mine. A divining rod guided the work but four feet deep and as wide as four feet, the hole yielded no treasure as yet. The search continued despite empty results.
A Chicago crowd of 260 men women and children attacked a Cottage Grove streetcar at Nine ty-third Street sacked the car wrecked seats broke windows and forced the vehicle to be swapped to carry them home. No arrests were made as police arrived after the raid and the protest achieved its aim by the car company reassigning cars to appease the demonstrators.
Read a trio of testimonials from women in North Crandon and Roxbury praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for displacement, ulcers, and fatigue. They recount long struggles, then relief after trying the remedy, urging others to seek advice from the Pinkham company.
An excerpt shows patent medicine claims for Spohn’s Compound to remove intestinal worms, improve appetite, and “tone ’em up” with directions and wholesalers. The passage shifts to social chatter about Mrs Norah Mulvaney meeting Bridget Gar and their babies, then light humor about matrimony and payday.
At the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo Dr. Pierce proclaims Anurie as a superior uric acid solvent. The ad claims rapid relief for inflammation symptoms including scalding urine back ache and frequent urination and urges readers to try a trial package or visit a drugstore for a recent supply.
The reader is told about Mrs Flatbush who bought furniture on installments, claiming five marriages explain her many purchases. The dialogue presents a playful, dialect filled exchange focusing on Mrs Bensonhurst's skepticism and Mrs Flatbush's cheeky justification.
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