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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1902
Page
6
Ellen Osmonde surveys Easter bonnets and summer hats as artful expressions in New York. Ornate wings and rolls, nets and curls, and feathered parasols define a season of feminine style, with hats serving pure ornament and hair and nets shaping coiffures for day to evening.
A long disputed divorce from Monaco’s prince centers on an American-born princess Mary Alice Heine from New Orleans who married into European nobility. Once celebrated at royal courts, she and the prince quarrel over fidelity and finances, with royalty reportedly boycotting the couple after alleged flirtations and scandal.
Physicians link excess warmth and moisture from heavy overcoats to chills and related ailments. They warn that removal during indoor warmth causes sudden cold exposure and suggest alternatives such as warm underclothing or switching coats, and note a spring shift in fashion toward lighter tailoring.
Des Moines reports sweeping railroad bills and related measures across the Iowa legislature. Proposals include unlimited indebtedness for railways, cash tax collection, grants for state hospitals, and a measure to parole inmates from industrial schools. Other actions tax railroads by state, approve catfish in game statutes, and pursue various public works and judicial reforms. The day also records multiple pardons and administrative adjustments across Des Moines.
A discursive piece extols Taste as essential across life and society. It argues that the person with taste makes fewer mistakes in business and social affairs, noting a stark contrast between tasteful and tasteless dress, conduct, and speech. The essay links taste with status, honesty, tact, and greatness.
In Canton on April 5 Mrs. Myron T. Herrick and Mrs. Duncan sister of the late president arrived for a visit with Mrs. McKinley. Mrs. McKinley’s condition remains about the same she goes out driving and visits the cemetery daily when weather allows.
John Lessel foreman at the repair shops of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railway was fatally injured Wednesday morning when the lid of a sand drum blew off crushing his head to a pulp in Perry Iowa on April 3rd.
Notes from exchanges recount a Sedalia Paragon tidbit where a man tips his hat to a presumed acquaintance only to learn she is his wife's mother. In Kansas, Curly Dillman posed as a veterinary surgeon, prescribing a pint of whisky for a sick calf. The owner trusted him, gave the whisky, and the calf died, while Curly felt relieved.
A narrator recalls a very small boy who fears dark and pain yet imagines grand adventures. He claims to be a pirate bold with a dreadful crew, sailing seas to capture merchant ships, judge prisoners, and voyage through burns, deserts, and shipwrecks. The tale blends fear with fearless fantasy from a child's vivid dreams.
The old St Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina, doubles as a lighthouse since 1894 with a 125 foot steeple beacon visible about 30 miles at sea. The sexton T J Riley lights the lantern nightly, and the church, famed as the Westminster Abbey of South Carolina, houses graves of many notable figures including John C Calhoun.
A collection of anecdotes on insight and initiative. A New York publisher credits cheerful, harmless books for vast sales as a ladder to success, while a New England widow spots the need for genealogists. A Germantown mother and child reveal the humor in prayer and daily life through simple, pointed episodes.
A New York Herald description warns of a prank where a target stands in a room with a stout cane pressed to the forehead and a closed left hand on the knee. The person cycles around the stick for minutes until dizziness forces a stumble toward furniture for safety, provoking laughter.
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