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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1903
Page
3
The column discusses temperance and the cost of liquor, citing the cost to society and tuberculosis links. It reviews The American Boy magazine, its circulation, and contents. It also includes rhetoric on parental guidance for daughters, a note on Rock Island’s new Chicago station, and an endorsement of a touring comedy, A Breezy Time, at the Opera House.
John Lint escaped last Monday night from the county jail in Knoxville. Aged about 23, he stood bound to the grand jury in $300 bond but could not meet it. The escape occurred as the physician tending Frank Baird and jail keeper Mr. Palmer entered the jail door. Lint leaped past them. Bloodhounds are away, and no dog is present to aid tracking.
The Irish Aristocrat will be presented at the Pella Opera House Monday night February 9 with strong advance word. Ottumwa Democrat reports the Opera House was well filled for the show and that the production was a great success with high praise for Mr and Mrs Morgan's performance.
Haggins of Melbourne Kla writes he was told he had consumption and given up. A free trial bottle of Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption led to recovery. The cure is guaranteed for throat and lung diseases by B F Keables, Druggist, price 50c and 1.00, trial bottles free.
Advertisement from W. J. Reed, Industrial Agent, St. Paul Minnesota, touts opportunities for capitalists and competent men in Iowa Illinois Minnesota Missouri. Calls for creamery tea and millers, general merchandise hardware harness hotels banks stock buyers. requests correspondence, maps and Maple leaflets.
An office sits just south of the City Mills on the first corner, noted in the local record.
F J Green of Lancaster New Hampshire recounts long battled indigestion and nervous debility but notes Electric Bitters gave him more relief than any prior remedy and says his wife, helped for years, finds them splendid for female troubles. Satisfaction guaranteed by B F Keables.
The note cites California following Colorado in drafting border exclusions for consumptives, deeming the move ungrateful. It recalls Colorado's growth from inciting money spent by the afflicted and warns the southern state would be the deadest broke proposition without that revenue. A leather music roll is missing. readers are asked to return it.
A fragment listing cautionary maxims from a 19th century theater program dated February 14. It warns against eating soup with fingers, sleeping in clothes, working needlessly, walking backwards down stairs, intimate affairs with a hired girl, and leaping from a moving train, all tied to securing tickets for Fitz and Webster’s big farce comedy A Breezy Time.
The advertisement claims Easy Pill and DeWitt's Little Early Risers cure biliousness jaundice constipation and inactive livers by stimulating secretions gently moving the bowels and toning stomach liver and bowels. It asserts lasting relief if use continues a few days with no return of trouble and a tonic effect on the body.
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