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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
3
A marriage is arranged for a young heiress, with the event stirring gossip as she quietly smiles through balls and questions. A prior love letters reveal longing, money, and a fragile barrier, while a distant suitor and a mother watch as the social machine turns.
A story from a Cleveland Press joke frame describes an Iowa cattle buyer who spent over $25,000 on a grand timber and stone mansion. Despite the mansion’s grandeur, he declares his wish is for a green parrot to rebuke him each morning, saying, John, you're a darn fool, illustrating a humorous truth about happiness and desire.
A Jersey man with three potential presidents teaches his family to rise early through tricks like a shingle and a proverb. He notes a 5 AM walk yielded a pocketbook with $20, while pondering the finder’s owner who may have awakened even earlier.
Obituary anecdote of Thomas Bone the sailor's missionary. The judge recounts his kindness, ready wit, and restraint in humor as he silences interruptions. A sailor challenges him with a bald head joke, and Bone replies with a farmer’s quip about an empty barn not being worth shingling.
Pamela secures a notable win in a consumer goods showcase featuring Gold Medal Flour and TRALELLA. The event highlights brand performance and market appeal with participants and judges noting quality and value.
The text contrasts how stock exchange and racing men dismiss luck as a side issue while actors honor it with deep reverence. Superstitions from the restoration era persist into modern socialism and problem plays, with theatre groups brightening at a cat's entrance and exploding in joy if the cat seems approving.
A New York hotel hires a nurse to care for guests’ children when no nurse is present. The proprietor notes many women arrive without a nurse, leaving them tied to their baby and sometimes needing to consult a physician. The nurse’s services are provided without charge.
Maude remarks on Maymie being touched by a poem written by young Mr Guffson. Maymie agrees and concedes the poem was not good, yet Maude notes the act itself was as idle as if the author had been Shakespeare.
A handsome young man, gifted with promise, fears a receding bald spot visible in every room of a woman’s flat. He laments thinning hair and futilely attempts kerosene and tonics, while she quips that the flaw keeps him relatable and socially approachable.
A Columbus Georgia report recounts the recovery of Brady Grooms a young man drowned in the Chattahoochee River his father tossed one of the shirt washed downstream it sank at the spot where the body lay and the shirt clung to his legs as the body was found
A New York lawyer in a high rise sees a stenographer on a man’s lap and calls the man. He claims moral notice from the “still small voice” and delivers a sharp rebuke over the phone. The tale ends with the lawyer declaring, I am your conscience, and hangs up.
A New York Times quote about a man named John Doe and his sister Jane, noting the humor and skepticism in meeting a family with the famously coincidental surname. The salesman muses on how parents might have chosen such names and the local prevalence of Does.
An Atchison girl despaired over a broken heart and read about poisons until a friend sent chocolates. After eating each piece she felt brighter, leading a local physician to claim that eating palatable food can curb morbid thoughts and deter suicidal impulses.
An ad offers Mother Gray's Australian Leaf as a safe herbal regulator for back pain urinary bladder or kidney trouble and female weaknesses. It claims to relieve inflammation and ulcerations and notes availability from druggists or by mail for 60 cents with a free sample, The Mother Gray Co Le Roy NY.
In the District Court of Iowa Marion County September Term 1909 Royal Union Life Insurance Co. files against C H Brock D P Burnette and Burnettes Horace Burnette and Burnetta Burnette to the above named defendants you are notified there is a petition seeking a personal judgment against C H Brock for 500 dollars with six percent interest from April 1 1907 on a promissory note dated October 1 1901 payable to the plaintiff and extended October 8 1906. It also seeks foreclosure of a mortgage securing the note on Lot Three in section Nine Township 77 North Range 21 West of the 5th P M. No personal claim against the Burnettes except Brock. If you do not answer before noon of the second day of the next term, September Term 1909 which begins September 28 at Knoxville, default will be entered and judgment given. Thomasen Vander Ploeg Attorneys for Plaintiff.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers liver pills promote pleasant safe easy relief. A salve you may depend on in any case needing salve is DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve, especially good for piles. Sold by all druggists.
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