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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
3
A boy lists six resolutions reflecting school life and sports aims. He pledges to be patient in class, abstain from overeating, avoid lying, refrain from making ugly faces, respect girls, and work toward becoming captain of the football team. The note closes with a vow to stop writing until next year.
A century of debt imprisonment is described, with a New York Gazette 1751 appeal thanking benefactors for beef, wood, bread, and money. The piece notes harsh conditions and scarce charity funds, contrasting with later curious New Year rites from Cevennes livestock blessings and March New Year customs with verse reflections.
A whimsical, old timey animal fable narrates Tommy the mouse and Lena discovering Lena's father in a heavenly afterlife, meeting in a moonlit afterworld and planning a new life on Cookie Street while contemplating his fate and a possible aeroplane. The piece weaves fantasy with a twist on heaven and a future joint home. It also includes a product plug for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with a testimonial from Mrs Beeching.
The list shows strong public trust in our automobiles and service from us and our manufacturers. We thank buyers for their confidence and promise to improve speed and quality in 1917 with our car lines, aiming to offer more value than competitors.
The Rediscovered Country notes East Africa forests as impenetrable dwellings of towering trees and thick undergrowth. Moss streamers hang from limbs and orchids cling while ferns carpet slopes, all surfaces gleaming with perpetual wetness. Separately, stamps reveal the largest ever U.S. issued package stamp at four by two inches, with Mecklenburg Schwerin’s tiny 1856 quarter shilling among the smallest.
You can make money near your home like hundreds before you. Work is easy, pleasant, and permanently profitable. Be your own boss, build your own business, with no risk and clear profit. Send name and address with one reference to L. Brown. 66 Murray Bt., New York City.
Wabash trains run daily and Sunday at Howell Station four miles south of Pella. Eastbound No 2 at 7:40 am and No 60 at 6:31 pm. Westbound No 51 at 9:15 am and No 3 at 7:40 pm. Nos 2 and 3 stop only on signal.
A reader testifies that Dr. Pierce s Anuric Tablets eased years of backache and kidney pain with rapid relief. The note urges others to try the uric acid solvent, claims it is thirty seven times more active than lithia, and invites a ten cent sample offer to prove efficacy. The ad cites Dr Pierce s Institute in Buffalo and references his Golden Medical Discovery and other tonics.
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