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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
3
A historic explanation states cataracts form inside the eye and removal is the only cure when vision is severely diminished. It notes surgery yields about eighty percent vision recovery, medical treatment may arrest early stages, and cases in elderly patients show good results with removal when blindness nears.
The December term opened with Judge Dugan presiding in Knoxville. A 1:30 p.m. grand jury session set the stage for 36 trial jurors, listed by name from Pella to Melcher, with reporting on December 8 at 1:30 p.m. for duty.
Mrs. R. T. Butts of Kansas City Missouri says Tanlac cured her nervous indigestion that troubled her for two years. She describes relief from headaches dizziness and breathing pressure and notes she gained twenty pounds. She reports purchasing Tanlac locally from Ideal Pharmacy Pleasantville Drug Co John B. Howell Fred L. Mick and E A. Osborn.
Pella Markets lists stock and grain prices corrected by Van der Zyl Bros with cattle ranges from 8 to 12 dollars per cwt and hogs 12 to 13.25, corn 1.00 to 1.25 per bit, wheat 1.75 to 2.10 per bit, oats 68 cents per bushel, eggs 60 cents, hay and poultry prices noted, followed by a school joke about a back ward boy and his teacher with Mr Jones.
Nancy Bryant's father, a firefighter, leaves a cozy Parcheesi night to answer the alarm. He climbs a ladder, carries a frightened girl from a smoky home, and returns her to grateful parents amid cheering onlookers.
A short cautionary tale traces a small lie growing through gossip until it expands beyond control. The rapid spread frightens the moon and crowds, as a monstrous crew of dark kin arrives, culminating in a public explosion that ruins a man’s good name.
A quick compilation of humorous quips. Browne jokes about a change in Norton’s wife, Towne cites divorce, and a mistaken identity gag. An automobilist asks for Somerville, a door step reply amusingly overturns directions, and a classroom moment misreads Moses life as a phone number.
Wabash time table listing East West departures from Howell Iowa with service windows at 7 42 am and 5 69 am 9 20 pm and 7 38 pm as daily train times noting inconsistencies in the OCR printed times for the Rock Island line schedule.
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