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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1902
Page
8
The article recalls baseball stars and rower Titus as he faces pressures and rivalries of the time. It notes McPhee and others in baseball, the Reds, and leadership clashes, while Titus prepares for Henley with a cedar shell amid rough water and rain.
Fragmentary notes describe wind on the Thames at Henley stirring contenders in a famous Horget detent. Mentions of hats from Dr. McDowell and a Diamond H threat precede a tense chase for the final heat.
The article profiles Adorian, Austrian star, whose peculiar cue design and stiff build draw praise and debate. Lloyd Jeyne notes the cue’s weight distribution and short bridge, claiming it may alter play, while rivals like Ives and Schafer are described with their stock tools. The piece suggests Adorian’s unique approach could redefine technique.
Seville retains the ancient Seises dance before the cathedral altar as part of December Virgin feasts and Corpus Christi celebrations. The rite, dating back to the conquest era, reflects Spanish religious sentiment and mirrors Murillo’s devotional imagery, contrasting northern sensibilities.
The essay salutes teachers from Socrates to Confucius and Jesus, noting they taught with authority and deep subject mastery. It laments modern schools relying on mere amusement rather than disciplined instruction, urging inspiring pedagogy over trivial reading.
Ell Auten an elderly Cedar county resident shot and killed Sam W Denkman his son in law on a Tipton area farm owned by Auten and managed by Denkman The motive lay in a dispute over repairs to a house Auten fired through a bedroom door striking Denkman first then wounded the hired man The killer aged 76 did not flee but sat on the porch until neighbors led by Dr Baker captured him Denkman about 40 a wealthy local figure and the parties were well connected Auten is jailed and silent on the case.
Special correspondence reports the Iowa Equal Suffrage association will hold its annual convention in Des Moines in November. Carrie Chapman Catt and Rev. Anna Shaw will attend, joined by Evelyn Belden and Adelaide Allard. Nellie Nelson chairs the Des Moines committee with Clara Richey to plan the program and seek eastern male politicians to address the event.
The article notes a range of fashionable home items including a desk clock that doubles as a paperweight, colonial mahogany bookcases with leaded glass, pigskin paperweights with hunting scenes, silk brocade curtains with rose borders, white china dinnerware with green and pink garlands, green Spanish faience vases, Rotton furniture in chrome yellow, and Japanese silk cushions with gold embroidery. It also mentions Japanese temple gongs of bronze and copper inlays priced from five to fifty dollars, with modern bamboo framed gongs for floor or table use.
A collection of disparate, lightly connected statements touches on items from Brazil and Russia to Georgia liquor rules. Notes include lighter wood, a curious march anour found in Brazil, a Russian population claim, Turin’s automobile catition with 45 participants, powerful wing muscles versus human arms, a farmer near Urbana finding 80 mice in sheep fleece, Georgia liquor grades, South Carolina enrollment rolls, and Canadian-born figures in Massachusetts and Michigan.
Town manufacturers clash with Chicago Academy of Sciences experts after a Mississippi River visit. The academy reports pearl button shell deposits will exhaust in a few years, while locals claim Mississippi channel supplies are practically limitless and could sustain a century of production.
Iowa friends learn of Mrs. John Gibson death in Japan from cholera while Mr. Gibson lies under quarantine there. A Creston resident and former Union County legislator, he built wealth in banking and held large Philippine Lumber stock with Congressman J A J Hull as stockholder. He planned to manage Philippine Lumber in the Philippines before his wife’s death altered his plans.
Waterbury Chemical Company plans to lease the Colfax Springs sanitarium site to set up a laboratory and factory utilizing the mineral water from the Colfax springs. The firm, with 30 traveling salesmen, will fit the brick building for production and medicine manufacture. Charles Liseman of Sioux City recounted to Douglas Donald a letter praising Joseph G. Elseman, a Twenty-fifth Infantry sergeant, who died May 20 after aiding a comrade with cholera.
Mr E R Langendoefer of St Aubert Mo suffered a severe kidney trouble that baffled local physicians. After two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills he was cured with no relapse. He praises the remedy as the sole effective treatment after doctors failed.
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