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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1906
Page
11
The notice lists Wabash time records at Howell with morning and evening slots between Des Moines, St. Louis, and Kansas City. It directs readers to contact C. S. Crang, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis, and L. R. Davis, T. P. A., Des Moines for further information.
A catalog of 336 new spring moulding options lists shades and widths including plain black, black and silver, black and gilt, oak variants, silver combos, green schemes, and combinations with gold blue red white. Multiple colorways accompany oak, plain, and metallic finishes to suit various decor styles.
A brief notice highlights a remarkable stock display in Pella drawing crowds. It notes buyer interest and the event's local significance.
Notice offers ready made frames mats room moulding passepartout bindings and hardware for framing pictures. Includes glass hangers hooks wire and screws with in stock options and custom mats to suit any picture.
Rev J M Whisler of Mt Ayr visited friends in Pella after attending Louisville seminary. Several residents make short trips, including Misses Grace and Francis Buchanan to Monroe. Easter gloves and new spring hats promoted at Wormhoudt's and Van Spanckeren's. Cornelia Wilson returns from Des Moines and plans dress making in the bank building. Mrs George Thomassen seeks treatment in Colfax. George visits. Spring decor and curtains featured.
The committee on public buildings and grounds calls for bids to keep the grass short and maintain the public square during summer 1906. Bids are due by Wednesday April 25 at 6 p.m. The committee may reject all bids. H. F. Johnson, Chairman.
Good pasture for cattle or horses for rent. Henry Grundman, 4-5.
The Chronicle features nine Vogelaar sons of Mr and Mrs Tunis Vogelaar. The photo, taken March 8, marks Cornelius Vogelaar’s wedding to Lena den Hartog. Sons listed from oldest to youngest are William John Peter Jacob Tunis Leonard Cornelius Benjamin Gerrit, with four living daughters Anna Kate Marie Margaret and one deceased daughter, totaling fourteen children. Mr Vogelaar, a respected Pella resident and retired farmer, moved to town to enjoy his labors’ fruits. he was born in Holland, while Mrs Vogelaar hails from Mabaska County Iowa.
Mont Blanc's new hut, finished on the summit, offers night refuge for twenty storm bound travelers. Two years of effort faced snowdrifts and fires, with every material carried on backs from Chamonix. The Swiss Alps saw over 170 deaths last year, about ten percent unavoidable, rest due to foolhardiness or inexperience.
The Fades viaduct near Vauriat France will be the world’s highest railroad bridge with the rail 434 feet above the riverbed. It spans 1 446 feet in total length and uses three lattice granite deck stands with two granite masonry piers 803 feet above the foundation on solid rock. Trains crossing the high structure will feel like traveling over country in an airship as passengers view the valley below.
A governess to the Mortimer estate schemes to steal a giant sapphire guarded by a trusted tutor. She engineers an inside theft but is thwarted when Helen Mortimer returns home. Helen offers a moral bargain, choosing honesty over wealth, and the narrator renounces crime to pursue a proper life.
Oranges sweet at 25 cents a dozen and Mammoth oranges at 25 cents plus apples 35 cents per peck. Onions 50 cents per peck, corn seven cents per can, tomatoes 12 cents and up per can, best peas seven cents per can, table peas 15 cents per can, fancy stringless beans ten cents per can, white beans five cents per pound, dried apricots 12 and a half cents per pound or more, dried peaches, Lima beans ten cents per pound, Santa Clara prunes 50 cents or more per pound. Oat meal six pounds for 25 cents, sorghum 60 cents per gallon, maple syrup 40 cents per quart. Eggs fresh, Marshal Best flour one dollar thirty cents per sack, pancake mix Aunt Jamima, Falcon and Grandma Best crackers, cookies and crackers in variety. Exclusive grocery store claims fresh goods and better prices from buying in bulk.
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