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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1914
Page
8
A fragment from a periodical offers verse urging acts of help and cheerful words to lift others. It stresses walking with neighbors, drying tears, and greeting strangers with kindness, ending with the line about selected verses.
Two gray haired men stroll the street. One carries flowers to visit an elderly lady, the grandmother of his late friend Dan. A boyhood memory of kindness from Dan’s mother changes a lonely life, teaching him to give love and blessing. Dan dies, but the old lady finds strength.
Uncle Harris owns a country shop and offers a cent per sweeping. Joe volunteers and sweeps daily earning one cent. In town Dick and Joe visit a toy store where Dick longs for a kite. Joe reveals he saved fifty cents by sweeping the shop.
A short prayer asking for clean hands words and thoughts to stand for the hard fight against the easy wrong, emphasizing moral resolve and integrity. The piece frames a boy's plea for virtue and courage in temptation.
Consumption reaches 350 people daily in the U S with many cases preventable through timely treatment. The ad urges regular use after illness or overwork, claiming Scott's Emulsion feeds healthy tissue, builds blood, and strengthens lungs without alcohol or habit forming drugs. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield NJ.
A devotional verse asking for strength to avoid harm, work ethic balanced with fair play, daily acts of kindness, and forgiveness. It seeks guidance to forgive, aid others at personal cost, and grow in virtue under divine sight.
A child’s meeting erupts in panic when a cry of fire rings out. One boy stays seated with a smaller child in his arms, explaining he cannot escape because the baby is his brother. The piece concludes by likening this act to Jesus who sticks closer than a brother.
A neighbor Adolph braves a heavy snow morning to shovel a path from grandma’s door to the street. A passerby doubts the effort but Adolph insists on persistence, saying the secret to overcoming difficulties is to keep at it. A girl asks about a father’s work and learns he collects in church.
The petition of J A Orr and multiple co plaintiffs seeks to own fee simple title to described real estate in Knoxville Marion County Iowa. The notice lists numerous defendants including spouses and unknown heirs and claims the plaintiffs hold absolute ownership in fee simple. The petition is on file with the Clerk of the District Court.
The petition details a long chain of defective deeds and conveyances dating from 1889 to 1914, alleging that various grantees and heirs hold junior claims to a parcel described as the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter in Township 75 North Range 19 West, with the goal of rectifying titles, removing clouds, and awarding plaintiffs full title by decree or new deeds. Defendants are urged to appear before the May term in Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, to avoid default.
Notice in Marion County Iowa that a will purporting to be Gerrit Van deBrake is on file with the Clerk of the District Court. Hearing set for May 5 1914 in Knoxville. Meyers Langerak Clerk of District Court.
The Committee on Buildings and Grounds of the City Council invites bids for cutting grass and keeping the park clean for the coming season. Bids due by 6:00 p m on Monday April 27 1914. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. T Plette chairman Committee gar
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