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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1915
Page
11
A garbled OCR passage compiles festive quotes from Dickens Carlyle Lowell Scott and others. It evokes Christmas cheer, hope, charity, and resilience with verses about togetherness and renewal amid sorrow and hardship.
The article surveys early 20th century Christmas toys powered by electricity, highlighting electric trolley cars, toy motors, generators, and illuminated doll houses. It notes a new miniature electric range for girls that cooks with a simple cookbook, plus traditional holiday dishes like Yule doughs and mince pies tied to Christmas lore.
A catalog style listing shows fashion accessories including a scarf pin, handkerchief, fur lined mittens, collars, collar bag, and a necktie. The items reflect period attire with emphasis on fabric and trim details. No events or persons are named in the readable fragment.
Protracted meetings led by Rev. Gordon of Indianola draw large crowds in East Amsterdam with many converting to Christianity. Local items report Bert Hocksbergen losing part of his left thumb in an axe incident near Pella, etc. Also notes on Libby Cox teaching in Knoxville, Marion LeCocq visiting from Wichita, and health trips for W. J. Rhynsburger. Otley reports a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with gifts, and multiple small community updates from Pella, Otley, and surrounding areas including travels, visitors, and weather expectations ahead of Christmas.
Uncle Sam recalls Billie Burke a reformed woods boy, loved a schoolmarm, and sought dolls for poor Paxson children at Durbin. He hiked Cheat Mountain in a blizzard to bring Christmas cheer, dying near the widow Jones’s cabin while delivering joy to others.
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