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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1913
Page
8
A reflective essay argues parents shape children more by discipline than indulgence. It warns unselfish parenting can spark offspring selfishness and stresses teaching self mastery to build balanced, capable adults. Boarding schools cited as contrast for learning social reciprocity and accountability.
Una loses ten cents and fears she cannot help the missionaries. Miss Watkins encourages giving with prayer. The single cent buys a Jesus cross print for a missionary who shares the story in Southern India. Villagers hear the tale, become curious, and the village grows more welcoming to Christians.
Don the shaggy dog living beside Frank Stone often received bones from the Stones. Frank and his mother showed care for Don and wondered what a dog desires. One winter day Don wandered to Mrs. Stones back door as Frank watched from the window.
Mrs Stone notices Don's anxious look and suspects he wants water. She offers a dish of water on the porch when outside water is frozen. Don drinks, then politely shakes hands with his paw, as if saying thank you, proving a dog can express gratitude without words.
A poem about a boy's mother learning of misdeeds from a proverbial little bird. It urges honesty and careful speech, noting swift worldly judgment and praising truthfulness, courage, kindness, and gentleness to silence gossip.
After law school the narrator seeks work in a crowded field of 900 lawyers and moves west. In a western town he struggles to find cases for three months until a criminal matter arises involving a cow puncher named Sargent accused of murder after a miner named Jenks shoots at him and is killed.
A thrilling tale recounts Jenks and Sargent, an English nobleman turned cowboy, and a botched verdict. After Sargent’s execution, the narrator helps stage a return to life using a tricked box and an express train. The Earl flees to England with the narrator, paying substantial fees to ensure continued deception. The hanging method is described with a chest harness and a breaking device.
A brief exchange notes that choosing the cleverest man is simple in principle, but in a country village there may not be a clearly clever candidate. The dialogue highlights skepticism about finding a suitable leader.
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