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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1916
Page
4
Last moment word arrives that the entertainer Miss Buckley is ill and cannot attend the College Lecture Course tonight. There will be no entertainment.件
F J Cheney & Co of Toledo pledges to pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J Cheney swears as senior partner on December 6 1886 before A W Gleason notary public. Cure advertised as taken internally and affecting blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists for 75 cents. den? Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Homer Cray loses his hat at sea and, in Hawaii, endures a comic, costly hunt. A Japanese taxi driver misreads his request and drives him from a hat shop to a bedstead store and then to a barber, pulling a high fare while Cray finally buys a hat at inflated price.
The narrative recalls the Battle of Tours where Charles Martel defeated the Saracens in 782 with wildly inflated casualty estimates. A witty diary fragment then offers a cautionary wedding tip about wives keeping honeymoon notes, warning the groom against quarrels amplified by past remarks.
A morose young man comments that marriage is a lottery, expressing skepticism about entwined fates and the chance of lasting unions. His remark appears as a concise, reflective line in a broader column about relationships.
George A. Henry of Westerville Ohio reports on a nationwide anti saloon campaign. Indiana faced heavy spending by liquor interests in 1915, with 120 dry saloons closed and 12 reopened. Indianapolis considers local option, while the National Anti Saloon League holds its June 26 to 29, 1916 convention, promising a major temperance gathering with national and international leaders.
George Ries a Linotype operator at this office was injured Wednesday afternoon when his finger was mashed in the assembling device of the machine he operates. The fingertip was crushed and will require time to heal though his condition is not life threatening.
P G Johnson argues against the claim that women are unsuited for voting, asserting politics is pure, women have duties and influence at home, and that Christian teaching supports shared rule. He cites Genesis and New Testament context, calling for equality and inclusion of women’s voices in civic life.
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