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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1903
Page
1
The fifth of May marks the greatest holiday for boys, the Feast of Mags. Shops fill with tiny soldiers on foot and horse, hero effigies, wrestlers, and festive regalia for processions. Gay flags, streamers, banners, and other tokens reflect Japanese craftsmanship.
Editorial notes city governance and figures such as Marshal Gerrit, Manager Quinn, and Superintendent W. C. Farmer. It discusses Des Moines baseball ties, Normal School debates in Knoxville, the Mable Scofield case, railroads, school dismissals, and Mayor Huser pushing sidewalk and curb improvements to reduce street maintenance costs.
The piece notes May Day celebrations in villages of France and Tuscany where children host May parties for dolls. Poor children share one doll decorated with flowers and bright scraps, some carry May poles, and all solicit pennies from passers by for May treats.
A Grand Rapids speaker rails at American society calling the country a land of liquor and vice. He catalogs corruption, hypocrisy, and social ills from pills of prohibition to political cheating, mocking the idea of American virtue while praising Western freedoms. The rant targets churches, courts, media, and a harsh image of U.S. life.
Real estate transfers listed for Union, Clay, Knox and Marion counties incl. Calvin Brand to John Swain 51.69 acres. Mary P. Smith to Mrs. E. J. Miller undivided 4.15 of 110 acres. R D Robertson to Jessie O Williams SE of block 4 in John M Jones addition. George Croy to James L Davis lot 5 in Reno’s Knoxville. McCorkle to J L Davis lot 1 Reno’s addition. H Cochrane to E B Cochrane lot in Swan. Lovina Ferre to Harvey Blakesmith three lots in Bussey. John R Haywood to Mamie Bennett part of a Bussey lot. E O Ames to Fred D Ames West 4 of lots 5 and 6 in Baker and Jones addition. D Ames west of block 25 in Baker & Jones. Andrew Van Oswendel to Louisa Oswendel two acres in Mahaska County two Bussey lots and estate interest. Caroline Hunt et al. to W D Perryman lot in Swan quit claim. Marion county treasurer to Sarah M Wilson four Red Rock lots tax deed. Philander W Benscoter to C F Grant 15 acres in Clay. M J Stilwell and husband to George Bath small tract in Liberty. M D Flanders to George Bath 2 acres Liberty. F Sjaardema to C Bruinekool 4 of 2% lots in North Pella. John McKinzie to Stella Pace surface of a lot Flagler.
M M Austin of Winchester Indiana helped his wife with a stomach and liver illness after doctors could not assist. He used Dr King’s New Life Pills and she found relief at once and was cured. Available for 25c at Keables Drug Store.
A brief sketch notes a trial where a man sued a medicine concern after taking Vincl. The defense claimed insufficient use prevented a cure but the man did not receive a hundred dollars. The ad asserts Vinol as a scientific cod liver oil compound sold on merit with a money back promise to small failure cases.
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