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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
3
An aging advertorial discusses marriage, childlessness, and how Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription supposedly restores health to barren women. It asserts cures for weakness, displacements, and other female ailments, listing the formula and endorsing pills and pellets as safe remedies supported by medical writers.
The timetable lists GOING WEST trains including 1 Passenger at 6 20 A M and 3 Passenger at 7 30 P M with 95 Time freight 11 45 A M and 71 Local freight 12 20 P M GOING EAST shows No 2 Passenger 8 10 A M No 4 Passenger 9 35 P M No 76 Local freight 8 50 A M No 96 Time freight 1 15 P M Local freight trains carry passengers and officials C S Crane G P T A St Louis F C Memillan D P F A Des Moines
A report from Washington says five Japanese fishermen were killed on Attu Island and 12 prisoners captured by the revenue cutter McCulloch under Captain Cantwell. The incident occurred as Japanese were trespassing to salt and cure catch. the crew acted before the McCulloch arrived. No expectation of international complications.
The International League of Woman Suffragists opened its third annual conference in Copenhagen on August 8 under Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. Delegates from twelve countries attend daily sessions through August 11. American participants include Miss Hay Rev Anna Shaw Mrs Rachel Forster Avery Miss Lucy J Anthony and Mrs Ida Husted Harper. The gathering moved to a larger hall after the initial venue proved too small.
Special reports from San Angelo county indicate initial flood damage estimates were overstated as the Colorado and Concho rivers receded. Ranchers report loss of cattle horses and sheep and Brookwood lowlands crops buried. No lives lost.
Starkton Cal Aug 8 Mrs Emma Lee Doux was sentenced to be hanged October 19 next on her conviction of the murder of Albert H McVickar a miner with whom she had been living as partner and wife The convicted woman heard her sentence with calmness The case will be appealed.
The Hartje divorce trial ends after a lengthy session. Judge Fraser plans a vacation until the first Saturday after September. Attorneys for Mrs Hartje and for Augustus Hartje clash over alleged forgeries and the scandal. Detectives Staab and Anderson waive hearings after bond is set at 2000 dollars each.
The workers council ends the strike in St Petersburg and suggests provinces will follow. Liberal leaders favor a non revolutionary path as government moves to settle the agrarian issue and appeal to peasantry. Intercepted arms shipments signal continued revolutionary risk in the south. National guard surrounds Salisbury jail after threats of a rescue. Ten heat deaths reported in New York.
An old health ad touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a daily cleanse for stomach bowels blood and organs. It claims internal purification and offers 35 cents for tea or tablets, signed F. 10 Stubenrauch.
Colorado is a popular destination for thousands of summer tourists. From June 1 to September 15 Rock Island lines offer a round trip rate of 21.75 from Pella Iowa to Denver Colorado Springs or Pueblo with return by October 3. A special rate of 19.25 from Pella to Denver July 16 to 15 inclusive is for the Elks meeting July 16 to 21, with returns by August 20. Lower rates apply to Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden Yellowstone and Pacific Coast plus side trips. New Rock Island service is highlighted for Colorado travel. Full details available from the Pella Iowa ticket agent.
An advertisement touts Gem City Business College in Quincy Illinois as the largest business college in America with twenty teachers and 1400 students. It lists courses in bookkeeping shorthand typewriting penmanship banking and more and promises graduates readily secure employment. An illustrated 64 page catalogue is offered free by president D L Musselman.
Every Tuesday balance of the year the Chicago Great Western railway will sell homeseekers tickets to Minnesota North Dakota and Canadian Northwest at about half rates to other territory first and third Tuesdays apply to any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minnesota state number in party and when going.
Harry Baker earned the decision over Frankie Niel after a twenty round fight in Los Angeles. Commander J. C. Fremont named naval attache at the American embassy in France and Russia. Daniel Wyan, a colored man, killed his wife at Lake Forest Illinois then killed himself. The Italian police are monitoring frontier arrivals.
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