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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1902
Page
8
In a tense scene at their meal the stranger explains his perilous journey from China. He recalls near death from dysentery, a prison escape, and losing wealth to mandarins. Dempsey presses for his destination while the others note his cautious, enigmatic demeanor and a belt of sapphires.
A telling exchange over a loan leads to a fortune found in travel. Hayle accepts a check offered by a grateful receiver, later repays in London, and departs by steamer from Rangoon. He vows that a quarter million pounds will transform his life into respectable respectability.
Grantham finds two exhausted Chinese-trader survivors in the Burma frontier jungle. One is blind and the other mute after torture by Chinese captors. They seek food and transport to the ford, and mention a prior figure named George Bertram linked to a Peking route and a missing companion.
A blind man and his companion arrive at a station after a violent incident. Grant ham's superior officer questions the refugees as they reveal themselves as Kitwater and Codd Septimus Codd. Captain Handiman remains skeptical of their tale while arranging care and naming details. The scene ends with a promise of continuation.
The Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post recalls Mme Sarah Bernhardt visiting a western city studio. An eager artist boasted of a portrait from Paris and urged her to view it. She praised the painting then asked whose portrait it was, revealing the joke. Bernhardt later posed at the doorway, inspiring the artist to seize a final image.
A young man loses his job after answering a question from his employer about six turtles in the shop window. The owner had painted no large white letters on the shells and offered half a dozen natives to observers when the letters formed the word oysters. He frets over odds he computes at 720 to 1 and then leaves, noting only the oyster opener’s departure. The London Chronicle remarks it is not wise to be too wise.
A tongue in cheek anecdote details a linguistics professor miscommunicating breakfast orders. The waiter misinterprets Latin phrases yielding eggs cooked in unintended ways. The story ends with the professor becoming furious as the exaggeration of language confusion echoes the kettle calling the pot black.
A witty dialogue about the pleasures and perils of smoking sparks a playful exchange. A New Yorker style quip notes the appeal of the first half of a cigarette and jokes about the last half, while a Baltimore American cartoonish scene questions mystic advertising on robes and soap.
In the exchange at Muxteate Dentz notes Miss Goodart admired Howlett’s singing technique. Dentz questions the meaning of technique, asking if it equates to gall in French, reflecting a local newspaper voice in a brief cultural aside.
Mr Meddergrass recalls a city man’s letterhead advertising a 15 story business house. In town he checked the site and found the structure to be 140 stories tall in the claim, a plainly exaggerated tall tale.
Jack asks what answer he received from her and Reggie responds she has not questioned her heart yet. Jack then asks what he said and Reggie admits no idea. He adds a hopeful note asking her to be his best man.
The Ohio State Journal quotes a young lord of the household lamenting that he wishes for everything instantly. His mother asks why. He admits he would not work hard to earn it, revealing a child’s gripe about immediate gratification.
A short lament notes that one success does not prove a trend while many small wins can mislead, citing Boston Courter in a reflective verse about perception and truth. The quatrain contrasts spring-like signals with a fall into distress, signaling a caution against overreading limited evidence.
A humorous quip from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat compares three figures to chickens. It features a dialogue with Cindy and Sam about ownership and motives, framed in a folksy mockPat style. The exchange plays on double meaning and regional dialect.
A Chicago Record-Herald poem notes weary workers longing for rest while fearing others will take their jobs, portraying labor strain and sleep deprivation in a restless urban era.
A terse exchange quotes Mr Go-Easy promising to pay as soon as he pays others, reflecting a debtor-creditor tension. The Detroit Free Press notes the vague pleasantry amid collection discussions.
A Philadelphia Press quip contrasts the night blooming cereus with a blooming idiot. The florist remarks the plant is often harmful, while a retort notes the other is usually harmless, reflecting lighthearted wordplay.
A brief Washington Star quip features a mournful woman recalling that before marriage her husband was a perfect cavalier while Mrs. Ironjaw retorts that now he is a perfect cavalier, delivering a wry domestic line.
A Philadelphia Record quip about pearls and tears prompts a cynical exchange. A simple mug notes his wife cries because he cannot buy her pearls, while a Brooklyn Engle line jokes about an acrobat wife learning to skate.
A brief note from the Catholic Standard and Times recalls Vera Oldmayden feeling pride as a hotel clerk pens Suite 16 on the register, portraying a moment of quiet dignity and personal line.
In a brief exchange from Philadelphia the lawyer pleads limitation while the convicted client asserts three years suffices, reflecting restrained courtroom sentiment on sentencing. The terse dialogue captures a moment of impassioned exchange between counsel and defendant.
For every honest statesman who pursues a public benefit a shrewd schemer seeks profit. The Washington Star notes the contrast in motives behind ambitious plans.
A Tribune excerpt shows the uncle advising Loy to study self repression and conceal emotion behind headlines. The exchange frames headlines as an artistic craft that must not reveal the entire inner story.
A fragmentary dialogue quotes Willie and a sick boy about preserves and whippings, then notes Mrs Gabbot’s concert was a success due to a long musical programme. reports in Chicago Post and Philadelphia Bulletin as short chatter items from newspapers.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution recalls a meeting where the speaker exhorts dominance, greeting Mister Trouble with bold phrases and claiming to carry as much as possible in a vivid regional voice.
In the Chicago Daily News a brief exchange shows Willie admitting he licked a boy after an insult. The father confirms and asks what was said. Willie replies that the boy claimed Willie resembled his father.
A brief quotation from The Optimist asserts the preferred view that day follows night, crediting the Detroit Free Press.
A Philadelphia Press quip features Mrs Hauskeep debating roast beef with Mr Hauskeep the oliceman on the beat prefers it well done. The exchange pivots on a humorously strict carnivorous standard and domestic wit.
Gov. Cummins signs the parole of John Wesley Elkins and sends it to Anamosa prison for signature. The terms require good behavior, ban him from Clayton county where he killed his father and stepmother, and prohibit jobs aimed at curiosity seekers. If he avoids violations for ten years, a full pardon follows.
Clifford Bradley a University of Iowa law student in Iowa City cut his throat with a razor and died. Believed temporarily insane due to excessive study for strenuous examinations, though among the top students. He was 24 and the son of a Rock Rapids widow.
Carl W. Preston a 20 year old farmer was found on his farm near Odebolt with a bullet hole in the back of his head. He died twelve hours later. A 22 caliber rifle lay under him with a discharged shell in it. The head wound and entry from the back raise questions. officers investigate the death as possible foul play or suicide.
The Washington weather bureau semi monthly crop report shows unseasonably cold and dry conditions over the past two weeks with seeding nearly finished and unusual effort in preparing for corn. Rain is needed for grain and grass growth. hay outlook is unfavorable. Farm animals are generally healthy but thin in Tocall ties where forage is scarce.
Keokuk hosted joint commencement exercises for the Keokuk medical college, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk dental college, and Keokuk school of pharmacy. A total of 64 physicians 19 dentists and five pharmacists graduated. The Keokuk medical college claims to be the oldest west of the Mississippi River.
Free delivery will begin July 1 with rural routes in New Virginia Warren county 22 miles population 600 Redfield Dallas county 20 miles population 600 Tainter Mahaska county 28 miles population 793. TiBernina post office to be discontinued.
A favorable wind spared the town as a grain elevator and extensive corn cribs owned by O Hulbut & Co caught fire and burned, along with several freight cars. The loss is estimated near 40000 dollars.
Judge Kelley overruled a new trial motion in the Louis Busse case. Busse was found guilty of murdering his wife and attempting to burn her body in Waverly. He received a death sentence to be carried out at the state penitentiary in Anamosa on April 17, 1903.
Reverend Samuel Krell pastor of the Lacona Methodist Church took his own life, after serving two years in the Philippines as a private in the Fifty first Iowa Volunteers. Despondent over poor attendance at services, the minister died by self inflicted act.
At their Lamont conference the Latter Day Saints adopted a unanimous resolution urging an amendment to the US Constitution to prohibit polygamy in all states and territories.
In April 1903 Judge Kelley ordered Louis Busse hanged at Anamosa penitentiary after a verdict of guilty for wife murder. The Waterloo letter notes Andrew Carnegie offered $30,000 for a public library building. Various notices cover post office changes, university address duties, electric line plans, and local deaths and disappearances.
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