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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
8
A Baltimore Sun poem laments men who kill a woman's love through neglect and scorn. It contrasts the sacred value of a woman's love with the harm caused by thoughtless behavior, warning that neglect erodes happiness and tears at life.
A crowded lunch hour tale follows a girl who gleans a stray quarter from a dollar and savors small luxuries until she sees a thief punished for twenty five cents. The moral loss weighs heavy as she returns the overage and walks away, pondering the moral cost of a small gain.
A reader is urged to attend church for ten reasons. It promotes wholesome appearance and calm, diverts thoughts upward, fosters association with good people, exposes listeners to strong English, pleases esthetic tastes, offers helpful sermons, sustains a valued institution, satisfies friends, and aligns personal conduct with moral ideals.
A. T. Pierson argues that true charity requires self denial. He notes a Japanese temple rope weighing a ton and a half made from temple goers hair used to lift stones as a rebuke to Protestant giving. Census reports show church members contribute about one sixteenth of a cent per dollar.
In Kentucky a seventeen year old girl Mahulda Griggs helps spare Josh Backus by trading clothes to hide him during a feud. A shot is fired. Mahulda is wounded but survives. The Griggs and Backus feud ends as Abel Backus persuades kin to forgive, leading to the marriage of Josh Backus and Mahulda Griggs months later.
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