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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
8
The piece surveys social trends and politics, noting an engaged girl’s intrigue among peers, praising Wilson’s broadened support from independents, and criticizing profiteering and old party tactics. It cites Sumner Curtis, Bryan era reformers, and Populist echoes as signs of ongoing political shifts.
Ex Governor W R Stubbs of Kansas in a Topeka bull mooser meeting backs Theodore Roosevelt as progressive candidate for 1916 to defeat Wilson. He concedes Wilson is meeting public expectations but aims to topple him, questioning the party’s purity and ideals.
Des Moines notes a sharp drop in police activity in a week without saloons, predicting continued benefit as the dry town stabilizes. Comparisons from Oskaloosa and Ottumwa show fewer arrests, lower jail costs, and bank deposit gains after saloon closures, suggesting revenue from mulet tax was not essential.
The Single Tax movement is tested in the Canadian Northwest and Houston while Pittsburgh and Scranton gain authority to adopt it gradually. It counts twenty plus supporters in Congress and several in the President's cabinet, with hundreds of advocates in newspapers. The piece stresses its rising prominence and invites further learning.
An 1886 sponsor notice promotes The Public founded by Louis F Post with booklets on The Single Tax and The Public. A notarized oath from Frank J Cheney offers $100 for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The ad cites Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, with Toledo, Ohio as the firm location and druggist distribution.
In Pella Iowa townspeople praise Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain kidney troubles and related symptoms. J H Reuvers photographer testifies the remedy helped his lame back and urges others to try Doan's. Sold by dealers for 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the U S Remember the name Doan's.
Alexander Powell recounts a U S consular audience with the khedive at Ras el Tin. The khedive, curious about irrigation and fertilization, buys several thousand dollars worth of American drilling and farming equipment after a bold sales pitch. The meeting ends with a royal order and satisfaction on the royal estates.
A Sunday school teacher offered a prize for a motto on moral cleanliness. A young pupil presented a placard printed that morning from Tony's bootblack stand outside the corner barroom. The motto read Shine Inside and prompted lessons on inward purity.
Ellwood Hendrick argues in Atlantic that adverbs, though stressing urgency in phrases like Come here quickly, are weaker than adjectives. He notes the former is technically correct but lacks force compared to concise adverbial usage.
A humorously blunt collection notes how life insurers mark exam findings to identify the deceased, including a case where the examiner recorded "He has a swung Cornish accent." The clippings gesture at mistaken logic in common sayings about stewards and authority, remarking on differing viewpoints from various papers.
A brief tale notes a man and a dollar during courtship who makes a dollar appear worth 30 cents and after marriage attempts to make 30 cents seem like a dollar. The line echoes Shakespeare about honesty in a Chicago News context.
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