10 Apr 1919
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1919
Page
1
Community appeal from Pella urging farmers to honor a three year pledge to plant at least 1500 acres in sweet corn for the local canning factory. Last year profits slumped, causing talks of underplanting, while business leaders request merchants to persuade farmers to meet the required acreage and support regional industry.
An advertisement urges good sleep as key to daytime productivity. It links wakefulness to indigestion and constipation and claims Chamberlains Tablets relieve these issues. The mallard mentions sale through F. D. Stubenrauch.
A farmer would keep a few reliable medicines for minor ailments at hand such as Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and Chamberlains Cough Remedy plus Chamberlains Ointment and Tablets to treat minor stomach issues and aches. Having these items ready would save trips to town and help prevent serious diseases. For sale by F.D. tabsprduch.
A column argues people prefer to knock others over boosting or praising. It notes readers favor optimistic reporting, explaining editors would risk business by filling columns with gloom. The piece concludes chronic grouchiness undermines a newspaper’s popularity and a writer’s career.
An old reader’s note describes Eskimo children enjoying a candy made from reindeer tallow. Women use carved red-footed waterfowl skin bags to hold the fat, created after men hunt dove k ies and remove bones. The treat is said to rival chocolate drops in appeal.
A Welsh registrar recalls a brash bridegroom who answered fifty feet by thirty in residence length. The ad touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as an internal remedy that reaches the disease through the blood, plus Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A local ad promoting a full paint range from Vander Linden's Bazar. It highlights interior and exterior paints including 27 shades and invites customers to discuss prices and options.
The piece urges American women to prepare for nursing roles near the fighting line and at home. It promotes a medical adviser pamphlet with fracture care and bone healing chapters and advertises a herbal tonic from a Buffalo publisher as aid for worn families and wartime expectancy.
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