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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
3
A vivid slice of nature notes penguins diving beneath the water with swift, beaded plumage and arrowlike strokes of the wings. They cannot float and must fly underwater, using one wing to steer while the other rests. The fish are chased and swallowed at high speed.
A short playful poem follows a small mouse who meets a fairy child. The fairy pursues the frightened Mousie, catches his tail, and a chase ensues as the mouse stretches and slips away, ending with comic elongation of the tail.
The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, staying at Holkham with Thomas Coke, boasted no man would shoot him. Next day at court, a volley peppered his legs. William Coke leveled a gun and coolly asked, Will you shoot, before adding I’ve got another muzzle ready.
The article explains Einstein's relativity idea that radiating bodies lose mass and applies it to the sun. It states the sun loses Earth's mass in 80 million years, causing a six second longer year per million years and a thirty six day seasonal retardation over long spans, with note on hotter stars magnifying effects and Algol eclipses shifting about twelve minutes after 2000 years.
A Devonshire town honors a Henry III era custom during the horse fair that suspends arresting law from dawn to sunset. A beadle in period dress parades with a gilt glove on a pole, rings a bell, and proclaims the fair begun as children chorus oyez and scramble for nuts.
The administrator for the estate of John Boot will auction on December 16 1914 at 9 30 a m at the late home location near Pella Otley Galesburg and Monroe. The sale lists 142 cattle 145 hogs 35 sows 110 stock hogs 10 dozen chickens 3000 bushels corn 400 bushels wheat 700 bushels oats 40 tons hay plus implements and household items with credit terms of six months and a 2 percent cash discount on sums over ten dollars.
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