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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
8
A dated promotional piece argues you must eat enough wholesome food for strength and life. It says digestion is crucial and when the stomach is weak you should take Kodol to aid digestion and rest the stomach.
A promotional guarantee offers a dollar bottle of Kodol with refunds if the user reports no benefit after full use. The offer covers one bottle per family and only applies to the large bottle, which contains twice the amount of the fifty cent bottle. Kodol is produced by E. C. DeWitt & Co. in Chicago.
A poetic inscription by John White Chalwide vows another year of the seasons and daily life. It speaks of suns and stars, growth, labor, love, and the voices of the dead guiding toward better souls and divine grace.
Sunday School lesson by Rev J M Coon reviews Stephen the first Christian martyr. It notes his faith Holy Spirit power boldness and loyalty, his execution, and the resulting impact including Saul’s conversion and the spread of the gospel. It outlines practical lessons on faith endurance and divine overrule.
A February Young People's Meeting Lesson retells the Pilgrim's Progress episode of Despondency. Christian and Pliable stumble in the slough of Despond while Obstinate departs. Christian, aided by help, leaves the mire as he reflects on grace, faith, and the Christian journey.
The excerpt portrays Christian failing to grasp the awakening Book in a hazy slough scene and seeking the light while Pliable’s discouragement mirrors doubt. It argues that despondency poisons progress, whereas honest faith keeps pressing toward the prize with divine aid available through God and the risen Lord.
A Western businessman recalls a Hawaii visit where an old native missionary helped him recover from drunkenness. He reveals the man who shaped his life as a poor American who saved him, saying his transformation and current character trace to that missionary. The tale emphasizes gratitude to a single mentor from the Sandwich Islands.
A Success magazine excerpt extols laughter as medicine and mood lifter. It claims frequent hearty laughter saves doctor bills, extends life, fights pain and blues, and improves digestion, circulation, and overall vitality through joyful effects on the body and spirit.
A February Woman's Home Companion feature promotes easy fruit and nut caramels. It suggests equal portions of nut meats figs and dates chopped finely or ground then mixed and packed into a mold for a unique treat. The article emphasizes that even beginners can make the tasty confections.
Instructions describe packing a candy layer to three fourths inch, chilling, then cutting into caramels. Each piece is wrapped in oiled paper. Variations include walnuts or pecans, or a fig and Brazil nut blend with a nut-to-fruit ratio of about one third nuts and two thirds fruit.
Francis ages four and a half irritates his father while varnishing. The father, planning a short break, sends him to watch a parade. The boy races to the window, then tugs for a second chance, shouting a sudden elephant in the parade.
A Henry George quotation critiques charity without justice as a duke tours streets of working people. He recalls a barefoot hungry girl thanking Providence for bread, asks who blocks divine bounty. He questions institutions or men in the way and urges relentless reform to abolish poverty.
A woman compares hotel pages across New York landmarks noting Knickerbocker pages look like 8 year olds, Hotel Astor pages are slightly older, Waldorf Astoria pages are larger, St. Regis employs full grown men, while downtown hotels have older, more mature pages.
The article extols koumiss as the national Tartars drink with extraordinary claims. Tartars say little other sustenance is needed and one quart can fuel a 132 mile ride in 17 hours in all weathers. It advises soldiers to take koumiss on Roosevelt era military tests.
A Success Magazine quote compares a failing business to a dying patient. It urges owners to infuse new blood into operations to revive energy, push, and enterprise or risk letting the business die.
A conversation imagines an author turning a play into a book. He will write about 100000 words, divide the text into chapters, and print it between covers to publish a stand alone volume.
The Chinese emperor functioned as priest for four state religions Confucian Taoist Buddhist and ancestor worship. As Son of Heaven he worshiped Shang Ti twice yearly and offered incense to ancestors. He sacrificed to Taoist gods and Buddha in regular rites. The populace followed ancestor veneration while Confucius reformed the ancestral faith. Taoism absorbed earlier superstitions and Buddhism arrived about 65 A D becoming state-supported.
A living lamp called the pyrophore or lampy firefly provides cheap illumination in Brazil. An inch and a half long, one insect can read fine print, while three lights illuminate a room. Peasants bind a pyrophore to each shoe for forest travel to avoid snakes and beasts, and coquettes wear one in hair or corsage. When its light fades, cold water reactivates its glow. The creature is known popularly as cuengo and scientifically as serricorn stermose elaterides.
A year long test passed electric current through a copper aluminum conductor pressed together. After separating the two metals no trace of either copper or aluminum was found in the other, showing no material transfer in metals unlike in electrolytes.
An indignant citizen says boys repeatedly smash glass around street heights. they throw rocks for ten to fifteen minutes until successful, using the ball to hit and break glass on curbs or apartment steps, especially in vacant houses with basement windows often broken.
Captain Herbert Winslow, executive officer at the Charles Town navy yard, stood guard when a sentry post was left unguarded. He swapped in, waited for relief, and kept the post manned through cold drizzle until a marine relief arrived.
A New York wine merchant notes rooms for wine tasting and card games are lawful since they do not sell spirits. He explains the distinction between wine and whisky sales and cites a legal gray area amid proposals restricting alcohol-related venues.
A commentator notes that ten men become quarrelsome when drinking whisky while wine preserves calm. He suggests that if the table over there switched from Rhine wine to whisky, regular brawls with police might erupt every ten minutes.
Miss Cayene questions theater as an educator saying the stage should not shape society solely through problem plays or musical comedies. She cautions against letting entertainment dictate social ideas.
A 19th century ad claims long winter months, heavy foods, and inactivity sap vitality and temper. Hollis ter’s Rocky Mountain Tea is marketed as spring medicine that clears the blood builds up flesh and makes you strong. Tea or Tab, 35 cents, F. D. Stubenrauch, 58.
A fragment notes a sales pitch claiming perpetual matrimonial bliss if both spouses drink Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. The source cites F. D. Stubenrauch and frames the claim as a humorous or promotional caption rather than a confirmed fact.
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