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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1910
Page
6
Baled hay is ready for market and stresses selling near home. It argues baled hay saves space, preserves strength and freshness, and commands higher prices. Encourages owning a bale press to avoid rain rot and wind loss while moving hay before spoilage.
A terse, urgent note warns the reader not to forget a wife’s instruction to go downtown or face consequences upon returning home. The fragment hints at a domestic quarrel or coercive tone without specific names or dates. The readable text centers on a warning tied to an unspecified incident.
In a court like exchange the judge notes a candid confession by a child named Ethel. The dialogue reveals tension over honesty and following parental guidance as the mother and judge discuss the incident of taking cake despite a directive.
President Roosevelt spoke after a local athletic contest near Washington, urging boys to balance sport with duty. He outlined four maxims: play hard and strive to win without cheating, work hard in work not play, get all from sport but not neglect duties, and remember sports are not life’s only serious pursuits. He warned that being a football hero at forty is weak if it hides other responsibilities.
A child hears a tale about how Daedalus carved the first saw from wood and serpent tooth, as his brother explains the origin of the tool. The exchange blends curiosity and myth with a playful verdict from the boy.
Advice to boys on conduct, respect for women, hard work, self control, and avoiding flippant behavior. Encourages modesty, diligence, politeness, and independent thinking while warning against flirtation, vanity, and yielding to peer pressure. Emphasizes role as future husbands and responsible men.
Advice instructs women to sew, mend, garden, cultivate arts, and manage a home. It condemns intemperance, tight lacing, and loose associations, urging economy, virtue, and churchgoing laborers as worthier than idle wealth. It also warns against medicine excess and unhealthy eating.
A Brown County clerk shows a man forty gingham patterns and finally tells him he does not want gingham but a divorce. The exchange ends with the clerk prompting the need for divorce rather than fabric. The piece also notes a nervous railway car scene and a joke about a loaded gun with cork inserted for safety.
A collage of baseball lore and quips recounts Arlie Latham’s brash on field antics when ahead and benching when behind. It also highlights Captain Harry Lord of Boston as a top American League fielder and hitter while Lelivelt is praised as a fast, strong left fielder for the Washington Americans. The page then shifts to a light moral note praising wife appreciation and ends with a quip about a gambling request and a justice of the peace marriage suggestion from a St Louis Star line.
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