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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1915
Page
1
A playful dispute between children over hats and a pup turns into a chiding scene as mothers intervene. Wilbur D Nesbit notes a brief quarrel where a girl teases Willie Johnson, tears his hat, and faces scolding from both mothers. They reconcile, resuming play with a lion pup as a prop.
In a Pennsylvania town the closing of saloons leads to calmer homes. A woman asks for shoes for a twelve year old girl who has never owned a pair. The father, who drank when saloons were open, says he wants his daughter to have shoes now that she has never had them.
A colored preacher finishes a sermon on Salvation Am Free and asks for a collection for his family. An angry parishioner challenges why pay for something declared free. The clerk explains salvation is free but its delivery costs, then the hat is passed for donations.
A six year old given a large Teddy bear names it Gladly after a hymn line she misheard as Gladly my cross eye bear. The squinting bear becomes a memorable birthday gift and a playful language moment.
A London bishop speaks on settlement work among the poor. A wife tells him her husband is a good man when sober. The bishop replies that he has him enrolled in the temperance club, illustrating gradual reform at the local level.
A bishop’s aid to an injured man is recounted with his wife thanking him for the transformation. The husband no longer visits pubs and now spends evenings bandaging the cat, illustrating a quirky bedside conversion.
The world recalls Cesar the king's dog after Edward VII's death. Cesar, who bore the phrase I AM CESAR THE KING'S DOG on his collar, died last April at twelve. He never reconciled to the monarch's passing, lingering in Buckingham Palace and seeking the familiar presence until his own death.
On a March snow day the English sparrows fed daily from a kitchen window carried bread to a tree where two robbed robins waited. The robins accepted the invitation to breakfast and joined the sparrows in the garden. After church they were seen together at the noon meal, sharing food as friends.
The Public Ledger of Philadelphia notes offerings across all nine hundred churches in the city. The report highlights charitable acts and donations reflecting broad communal engagement within Philadelphia’s religious institutions.
A broad, fragmentary report cites varied items from a Sunday event. It notes a sum of 137000 paid to view a Harvard Yale game, 901 convictions after the Mann White Slave Act with 1386 acquittals and 133 pressed, and 3000 more indictments pending. It mentions lynching data at Tuskegee, a Cairo Christian university plan under Zwemer, and Rockefeller funding for New York relief. It also references Carver on missions education and a Philadelphia mothers pension law aiding nearly 700 families.
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