24 Sep 1909
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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
1
The Maurice Times issued weekly by J. F. Van Gorkom publisher. Entered as second class matter at the Maurice, Indiana post office. Subscriptions are 1.25 dollars per year if paid in advance. otherwise 1.50 dollars.
Rail schedule notes list trains and times for G.N.R. and other lines with passenger and freight services. Local items report meetings, visits, births, deaths, and land drawings, including residents moving, a baby death, and Idaho land lottery results.
A miscellany notes science items from electricity to geology and industry. It mentions a fifty carbon lamp atop a Jersey City rail terminus and a Russia te rplane competition abandoned for lack of funds. It also cites a Belfast pulley block, a brick mortar remover, Elbe tunnel work in Hamburg, a German telegraph concession via Tenerife, and a bee’s honey production cost.
A collection of dated quips on ambition reputation love and wit. The narrator notes that running away rarely yields happiness and warns against meddling in others thoughts while reflecting on long distance costs and aging perspectives about men and promises.
Farmers in the vicinity should note the National Corn Exposition in Omaha from December 6 to 14, 1909. The event offers $50,000 in regular prizes plus an extra $2,500 from James J. Hill to be used as or by Geo Ho Stevenson, per the National Corn Exposition.
All persons not yet having cut weeds on Inghwass adjacent to lands occupied by them are notified to do so at once by order of the Board of Trustees Sherman Township.
The survey notes umbrellas first used in China and Japan, US exports around 24 million annually, Britain relying on 75 percent imported meat, 300000 concrete crosses for Italian railways, and Birmingham's large pin factory. It also cites a Geneva cable on a new Zeppelin ship and anecdotes about bicycles and domestic science studies in Mexico. The 1908 fire losses in US and Canada totaled 288.5 million, with Chelsea, Massachusetts, experiencing a notable fire event last year.
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