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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1915
Page
3
The city orders approximately 220 tons of hydrants and valves for a proposed water mains extension. Material to be delivered from railroad cars to street sites. Ordered for April 15 with bids due to the City Clerk by April 12, 1915. By order of the City Council, A. C. Kuyper, City Clerk.
The article recounts a Sioux County wedding attempt near Boyden that collapsed after the groom refused to pay six dollars for wedding entertainment. The bride’s father urged proceeding, but the groom’s stance led to a canceled ceremony, with the couple’s fate and farm prospects left unresolved.
Aunt Alice mislaid a small pin and searched frantically until her nephew Harold demonstrated a "look Indian" technique. By lying with head level to the floor he spotted the pin in plain sight, explaining Indians and plainsmen scan horizon level to spot tiny objects.
Carlson drove the Maxwell Racer to a 300 mile non stop distance in the San Diego race. The same Maxwell team and engineering, using laboratory tested steel from regular stock Maxwell cars, built the racing model and achieved the feat again.
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