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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1909
Page
3
Prof Charles Zueblin notes in Pendleton mothers once cut children's hair with shears and a bowl. A Pendleton Sunday school teacher retells Samson and Delilah and a boy says the lesson is It dont pay to have a woman cut a feller s hair.
Inquiries into height among British statesmen, artists, scientists, and business leaders show many prominent men exceed five and a half feet. Lloyd George stands five seven while Kipling measures five five and a half, with several others close to or just above five and a half.
A quip from the Cleveland Leader asks what happens when a patient’s temperature falls as low as possible. A student replies with a pun about getting cold feet, illustrating a light medical humor exchange.
Canadian correspondence notes brighter 1909 harvest prospects in Wheat oats and barley across Western Canada. It highlights Canadian progress, railroad telegraph telephone schools churches and social life, contrasting pioneer hardship with modern settlement attracting American farmers.
The article notes uniform grain production across the prairie belt with spring wheat around 30 bushels per acre, winter wheat over 40, oats 50 plus, and barley abundant. It highlights settlers from Dakota to Ohio finding prosperity on 160 acre grants, and reports from Moose Jaw to Pipestone and Melfort showing strong yields, with observers predicting a prosperous year. The piece also cites Thomas C. Shotwell’s optimistic view from his Canada West travels.
The report highlights rising land values from 40 to 60 per acre as homesteads and pre emption lands fill. In Calgary district and Central Alberta, crop acreage has surged with new settlers using steam plows and farming methods. Railroads connect fringe areas, towns grow into cities, and prosperity spreads with telephones, schools, and churches. About 30 000 workers are drawn to harvest the vast wheat, oats, barley, and flax yields, with total crop value estimated near 160 million dollars, up from 118 million in 1908.
An old newspaper item notes Munyon’s free medical examination offer promising diagnosis and cure guidance without obligation. The piece then recounts a Cleveland Plain Dealer cyclone tale where a colonel’s unroofed house and decimated fence lead to a grim joke about his hired man still sitting on the fence.
Mrs. M. Working of Rochester Indiana says Doan's Kidney Pills cured her back pain dizziness and kidney issues after trying many remedies. She reports swelling of ankles and joints and weakness improving after three boxes. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY name to remember.
The exchange features a witness recalling the moment of an accident in which the maid was in the boudoir arranging the hair, and a lawyer pressing for the location. The Boston Transcript records the terse courtroom dialogue.
The readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages and is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. The manufacturers offer 100 dollars if it fails. Address F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by all druggists 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A collage of short quotes and product pitches shows Mrs Lapsling praising her brother Jerry’s academic progress, followed by patent medicines like Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Pettit’s Eye Salve. It notes Congress denying a $3,000 education study request but approving $15,000 for clam research, with other light anecdotes on marriage plans and English lessons.
Dr. W A Evans of Chicago health commission declares pasteurized milk overrated. A Philadelphia man uses onion juice as a hair tonic but an Atlantic City boardwalk incident leads an excursionist to offer a cheese sandwich to add onion flavor.
A New York friend claims a three year old aboard a transatlantic trip ate an entire box of Cuticura Ointment spread on graham crackers and felt cured of a cold. The firm Potter Drug & Chem Co asserts the ointment is pure and harmless. The Codex Sinalticus, a fourth century manuscript, was discovered at St Catherine's Monastery by Tischendorf and published for Alexander II of Russia.
A theater narrowly escaped a blaze when a villain dropped a lit cigarette and a match into the snow. The incident prompted a prompt response from staff and local authorities to ensure safety.
Mrs E Hanson of Columbus Ohio says the remedy helped her through the change of life restoring strength and ability to work. Mrs Charles Bandclay of Graniteville Vermont reports renewed health and urges others to publish her letter. The notice notes the product is a standard female remedy for over thirty years using roots and herbs.
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