Boost Pella Iowa Growth Featured in City Boost
A concise promotional note extols Pella as Iowa's best little city that is growing steadily, highlighting its improving prospects and ongoing development.
10 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1905
Page
1
A concise promotional note extols Pella as Iowa's best little city that is growing steadily, highlighting its improving prospects and ongoing development.
A compact forecast warns two months could prove eventful if threats unfold. Possible shifts include indemnity demands, potential home rule for Russia’s subjects, and a plan to assign a mutinous battleship to a committee. Etiha Root rises as a presidential possibility amid Senate jail quips.
Lana Moroson, praised as a great Russian woman, gave 100,000 blankets to Manchurian soldiers but thieves diverted the gifts before delivery. The piece labels graft as a world wide sin and condemns the fraud.
A newspaper notes that a Chronicle was sent to a country publisher to be added to his exchange list. The publisher benefited from the Chronicle's articles, but he did not credit them to the Chronicle.
A Marshalltown stakeholder faced a quandary over a wage bet on a baseball game. The bet claimed the Marshalltown base ball team would score twice as many runs as its opponent, but the actual score was one to nothing. The town remains divided on who won the wager.
In Topeka Kansas a wealthy Black resident has bought and moved into the town’s most exclusive area beside the governor’s mansion. Indignation runs through the upper circles as plans emerge to remove the unwelcome occupant amid a state famed for John Brown.
The Panama canal project is drawing heavy attention from national lawmakers as commissions and engineers work, sanitation becomes a focus, and a possible November special session of Congress is anticipated to advance canal matters amid questions about readiness and risk.
The canal issue is framed as a test of Congress's abilities, asking whether lawmakers will perform competently or repeat past mistakes. The statement suggests a pivotal moment where legislative action could reflect either prudent leadership or lingering blunders.
Citizens of Porto Rico urge the United States to alter the island’s governance and install natives familiar with local needs instead of party workers from the mainland. They declare the current system a failure and invoke the nation’s founding ideals, lamenting the fading relevance of government by the people.
A critique questions catalogues on cash payment, trade offers, and community support. It asks where the seller funds local farms, schools, churches, roads, and public services, noting most benefits go elsewhere. The piece urges local consideration of economic impact and civic responsibility.
A New York judge delivered a remarking sentence to a clerk of Equitable Assurance Society convicted of theft. He noted the clerk’s crude method and suggested that colluding with an insider to inflate salary to 30000 dollars and sharing with another would be similarly harmful yet not more immoral, while still avoiding accountability before Justice.
The agitation for looser enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws is said to originate in the United States not China. It is claimed that American capitalists organized the boycott on Chinese goods to enable them to import coolies for work in railroad construction and other large public works.
Alton Parker Tall aged five and his grandfather Judge Alton Parker were pulled from swift Esopus waters by Edward Fritz a photographer from the city. The救ing occurred after the boy clung to the elder Parker while drifting from a steamboat landing. Fritz plunged in with clothes on and freed the boy at about ten feet depth.
A notice states that when the first garnishment is filed the employee will be suspended during the pending suit. If a second suit is filed the employee will be dismissed. Wage assignment will not be permitted under any circumstances and the first assignment will cause dismissal.
A Marion County News brief reports that a group of men cleared tall weeds on the lot east of the News office. The operation drew about ten observers as workers cut down the overgrown vegetation, ending hunting in the area.
The Knoxville Journal accuses the Pella Chronicle editor of copying two Journal editorials without credit and accuses the Chronicle of stealing from other papers. The Knoxville Express challenges the editor to provide examples of past uncredited uses.
The history of the Oska loosa Times shows its shifts between weekly and daily formats, finances, and ownership. Under C. Ii. Lemley and Rosecrans it returns to a democratic weekly field, relaunching with renewed emphasis on business, democracy, and community support in Mahaska County.
A Joplin Missouri druggist reports there is nothing on the market equal to Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints. He notes they sell and recommend this preparation, with F. D. Stubenrauch listing it for sale.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers greatly reduced return tickets for parties of five or more harvest hands to towns in Minnesota during August. For details contact any G W agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minn.
The Chicago Great Western Railway will on the first and third Tuesday of each month through December inclusive publish notices and round data for land agents and homeseekers.
Advice urges prompt use of fresh castor oil to treat bowel disturbances in hot weather for children. If needed, add Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, then another castor oil dose. Stock both medicines for immediate use. claims the method prevents severe illness and cholera infantum. Sold by F D Stubenrauch.
Rail fare offers include Portland via Chicago Great Western with sale dates from May 23 to September 20 and low rates to Seattle Tacona Bellingham and Taverett Washington Victoria and Vancouver BC as well as San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego California. Contact any Great Western agent or J P Eimer G P A St Paul Minnesota for dates and information. English Shaving Liniment claims to remove horse blemishes and injuries with a bottle saving $50, sold by B F Keables Druggist Pella Iowa.
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