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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
7
Local items name Bousquet Nieburg & Co Insurance and a long list of residents visiting relatives or traveling. Pella banks close for Lincoln's birthday while other entries note reunions, birthdays, illness, and community events including a corn contest, prize plans, and a Kansas City trip for health reasons.
The Weyers family terminated their nurse last week. Nellie is progressing well while the elderly residents remain slowly improving. Local visits include Ter Louw and H. A. Scott of Milton, Des Moines exam for a 6 year old, and Rev. F. N. Byram's home. Mrs. H. A. Billings left Valley Junction after word of her sister near death. The Up Streamers class met at Rob ert Groet’s home for their monthly gathering. A. L. Dykstra of Monroe attended to business in Pella. Mrs. A. Van Duren visited Leighton friends last Friday. a 10 percent Disc and Plow discount runs to February 20 1917 from Henry Gezel.
Local notes from Otley and Pella detail calls by Mr. Dick Freeken and Lylah Stuff, John Dykstra’s nose surgery, band meeting decisions, illnesses, moves, and community events. Injuries include Van Houweling’s hand accident and several pneumonia cases. families relocate to Otley. teenagers skate at Liberty School. Verna Moody visit. Verna Moody hosted by Mrs. Albert Sandmire. Van Toorn family moving to Leighton. Kuening farm occupation changes.
A child recalls class differences and social life in Tarkio Missouri. Tales of high five cards jail fights and society belles contrast with a little girl yearning for a loving mother. The piece shares small town images of Mrs White, Mrs Gray, and Miss Brown. The narrator laments not being a society belle and yearns for parental affection.
A collection of light vignettes and jokes from an old newspaper page. A sharp quip about a stenographer leads to a marriage reveal. A father discusses his daughter’s future home, a suitor questions housekeeping, and a Sunday school joke about a child’s self view. A lawyer and witness exchange barbed lines, plus a colorfully dated joke about doctors and a negro patient.
Grenville Weeks of Newark, wounded on the Manitou, sought army medical staff in Washington. Secretary Stanton gave little encouragement. Weeks found Lincoln at a White House reception. An officer ordered him to fall in, but Lincoln recalled Weeks and told the officer to be a gentleman. He then addressed Weeks, noting his wound and saying there is a place if he can use his head.
The distance between John o Groats at the north tip of England and Land s End in the south is about 480 miles as the crow flies. Travel routes are longer. Also a joke exchange about a patient’s heart and a pocket bill.
A Detroit Free Press fragment collection presents quips on memory and conflict. Dialect and wit contrast with aphorisms from Goethe and a riddle about living cheaply, highlighting social satire and timeless human foibles.
O J Metcalf of Weatherby Missouri chronicles a severe December cold that nearly felled him. He bought two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and was restored to health within days, praising the medicine as one of the best. For sale by F D Stubenrauch.
A Valentine season item notes a large display of valentines books and folded items in range from 1 cent to 2 dollars at Vander Linden's Bazar marking February 14 as the season of love and sentiment.
The duchess greets Napoleon and asserts her identity. She answers his insult with dignity and negotiates mercy for the duke and relief for townspeople. Napoleon pardons the duke and praises the duchess, stating she saved her husband and that her account mattered more than his prior contempt. The scene ends with the duke entrusting the independence document to his wife.
The article describes natural singing cliffs in the Pyrenees known as the snorers and orgelike organ pipes formed by gullies. It notes sunrise tunes at the Orinoco confluence, explains the air and fissure mechanism, and cites natural sounds from Hawaii’s sands as further evidence of nature’s acoustics.
A description recounts a sound in loose sand resembling a melodeon, and notes that sliding down the bank on one's back with hands dragged through the sand makes the sound louder, like distant thunder.
The passage recalls John Bell a barrister praised by Lord Hidon as the ablest equity lawyer of his time yet unable to read write walk or talk. It notes his crippled state his Westmoreland accent and stammer that rendered his speech unintelligible. It cites his admission of three writing styles one readable by his clerk another intelligible to the clerk but not him and a third baffling both.
The New York Times notes the story that Nero played his lute atop a tower while Rome burned. It claims the tale claims the emperor forbade city flames to be put out and sang verses about the burning of Troy.
A short dialogue recounts a man suspecting underweight by a grocer and another narrator proving the scales are correct by weighing themselves, noting they read twenty pounds lighter than expected, as cited in the Detroit Free Press.
A Boston Transcript quotation notes that pain signals imbalance and that many kinds of pain exist, enough for everyone to experience some. The excerpt frames pain as a universal human condition described by a student in a reflective essay.
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