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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
1
The piece argues advertisers should submit copy by Tuesday or Wednesday morning. A correspondent asks if it is better to want a nice ordinary girl than a banker’s daughter. The author notes personal bias as a married man. Billy Sunday moved the Illinois legislature to tears, while Hopkins hopes for reelection to the Senate.
A playful column cites a fictitious heart cure exprepsy lendlisoamilainime as a gag and questions whether voters or Cannon control Congress. It recalls a physician asking who waited longest while an editor demands overdue payment for a three year old subscription.
The Sioux County Herald reports spring hats resemble decorated umbrellas with the edge turned down. The quirky millinery note highlights a bold, upturned style seen in the season’s headwear.
A cryptic note hints at a yellow tag on a newspaper causing a soft renewal sound. Readers are urged to visit the Chronicle office to celebrate the editor’s joy over the return of funds to the fold.
The Des Moines to Creston rail plan is officially dead. Sioux City and Ireton is slow, with only two lines under construction on paper, namely Sioux City and Spirit Lake and Sioux City and Des Moines. The passage laments the loss of promising ventures and notes the old saying good die young.
In a small town near Monroe two Newton women caused a stir by driving to the public square watering trough. The horse strained toward the trough but could not reach it, leaving the riders puzzled until one woman climbed down and unbuckled the upper to free the horse.
A colored boy applicant faced the civil service commission for a mail carrier post and was asked a question about the distance from earth to the moon. He repeated the question with a heavy dialect and declared he did not want the job, then left abruptly as if fleeing a calamity.
A Kansas town blizzard tale ends in marriage after a busy laundry scene. A young man misread a wave when a girl rubbed steam from a storefront window and introduced himself. Since their wedding, local girls have emulated her diligence cleaning windows in all weather.
A fragmented page fragment references a string of aphorisms about courage cheerfulness and honesty. It quotes Mrs Pat Crowe and mentions Dr Ames a foe of homeopathy and suffrage debates in Illinois with details about a political maneuver and a rose card bearing an engraved message.
In Illinois Senate session the ceremony of a rose gift to each senator marks support for house joint resolution No. 19 to amend the constitution. Morley Vernon alone does not wear a rose, his rivals and colleagues noting the political symbolism as Burns mocks the virtue of reform.
Senator Vernon meets a striking young woman, Miss Greene, at the Chicago senate lobby. Her appearance, intellect, and poised bearing disrupt his expectations as she declares she will convert him, drawing away the surrounding men with her firm, courteous manner.
Vernon feels regret for missed chances as Portia Greene, the woman lawyer and his constituent, fixes him with serious blue eyes after a gathering. He longs to deliver a poised speech but realizes compliments would fail in the moment.
The German physician Dr. Bair will send one month of treatment with instructions or provide an accurate diagnosis and consultation free of charge in cases of paralysis catarrh or consumption rheumatism cancer fits piles tumors gall stones gravel liver or blood disease. Pay what you can when satisfied. Write your case to 1122 6th Ave Des Moines Iowa.
A fragment from Chapter III shows Vernon reacting with renewed surprise to a subtle impression he perceives. The moment hints at a developing tension and a cue to the narrative’s emotional turn.
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