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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1909
Page
8
Advertises Kodol as a cure for indigestion and stomach upset. Claims a complete digester that rests the stomach while healing. Promises money back guarantee if the bottle’s contents do not help, with refund from the druggist. Mentions preparation by B C DeWitt Co in Chicago.
Poetic New Year greeting from Miss Davis of Milford Michigan. The verse praises the recipient for guidance and charity in months past and prays for moral guidance and fruit in the year nineteen hundred nine.
Sunday School Lesson by Rev J M Coon discusses Acts 8 14 25 and the need for heart religion. It sets Samaria as a new epoch for gospel outreach, analyzes Simon the sorcerer as a caution against externalism, and stresses repentance true sorrow and the divine gift of grace. The lesson highlights heart conditions, biblical insight and the spread of the gospel beyond Jerusalem.
A February 28 meeting highlights young volunteers from Andover Divinity College who urged personal mission to the heathen. On June 27, 1810 the General Association of Congregational Churches in Massachusetts welcomed the appeal. Volunteers listed include Adoniram Judson Samuel Nott Samuel Mills Samuel Newell Luther Rice and James Richards. The initiative birthed the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a historic mission society.
The piece outlines a plan to recount the journeys of Baptist pioneers to Calcutta led by William Carey. It requests varied members to narrate the lives of the missionaries Judson and Rice, the sacrifices of Judson’s wives, and the founding of the Missionary Union, with material from Service and related works.
Virginia Terhune Van de Water writes in The Circle for February urging mothers to protect childhood innocence from fashion parties and late social events. She argues boys and girls should play together, avoid romantic precocity, and keep children’s activities simple and wholesome. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea ad promotes health tonics.
The Chicago Record Herald is described as an independent fearless and fair daily with strong influence in U S public affairs. It emphasizes serving the public without favor to any interest and providing complete impartial political reporting.
The Marine Hospital and Public Health Service report smallpox no longer to be feared as fatal. They note 499 recoveries per 100 victims with 6 months of data showing 23,544 cases and only 55 deaths. The inscription on Gladstone's Hawarden tomb is cited with a devotional line reflecting central hope of the race.
An accommoda tion train in New Hampshire features an elderly couple who chat openly about their plans to spend money. The old man asks passengers to change a $6 bill for smaller denominations while a curious scene unfolds as he explains his wife Martha will spend money quickly at stores, prompting a humorous exchange over change.
At the Incorporated Society of Musicians of Great Britain annual conference Sir Frederick Bridge urged cheerfulness and a broad view of progress. He recalled walking 414 miles between Rochester and Gravesend to secure a £105 yearly organist post, noting his Westminster Abbey tenure despite humble beginnings. He cited Elgar's early years as a Midlands music teacher and early second violin in a conductor’s orchestra as a valuable lesson.
A large iron freight steamer loading granite at a Rockport pier became electrified after a grounding lighting wire connected to a water pipe. The vessel behaves like a floating Leyden jar with machinery and instruments affected and no clear method to restore equilibrium.
A vivid Harper's Weekly illustration describes a striking unnamed woman with a neck line and waist cut silhouette, barbed wire lace necklace, stacked blond hair, Saturn-like rings atop her head, a long gown, patent leather feet, and stilted heels. The text emphasizes theatrical, fashion-forward imagery and theatricality.
British attache Sir Alexander Hosie recalls riding a train from Pekin to Tilentsin where a young Chinese couple boarded. The woman’s both hands bore numerous gold rings studded with diamonds and turquoise, so heavy she could not bend her fingers.
A rumor about an employee of the street-cleaning department being intoxicated circulated after town residents recalled seeing him fall from the water wagon. The claim relies on circumstantial observations rather than confirmed behavior, with authorities noting no definitive evidence of drunkenness.
A fragment hints at a dialogue about an odd solution to an unspecified case. The excerpt shows quotation marks around stray phrases and fragmentary words suggesting a discussion of solving a case. No clear names, dates, or places are readable.
Henry Davidson, New York correspondent for the Cincinnati Times Star, planned a Europe trip and rented a cheap room on One Hundred Twenty Fourth Street. While rearranging a folding bed, the bed trapped him. A thief rifled his trunk, stole jewelry and saved funds, then warned him not to shout. Davidson finished by destroying the bed with a hatchet.
At the Cawston ostrich farm in South Pasadena California, giant birds such as Emperor William gulp oranges from up to ten feet in the air, often swallowing a dozen at a time. The 23 year old patriarch reportedly consumes 36 to 40 oranges in succession, reflecting strong health and the fruit’s compatibility.
C B Riley notes that business success rests on detail oriented routine and practical imagination rather than abstract calculus. He argues the best businessman blends foresight with moral courage to face losses without resorting to crooked means, emphasizing real world applicability over college prestige.
David George Hogarth, noted geographer and explorer, states in western Asia vast areas remain unvisited by Europeans. He cites the southern half of Arabia as a vast wilderness known as Ruba-el-Khall or Dwell ing of the Void, covering about 600,000 square miles. He notes the immense isothermal zone and the 850 by 650 mile challenge for passage.
The Avesta as published is a fragmentary edition indicating it is only a portion of the original Zoroastrian scripture. Scholars note the surviving text covers portions of liturgy and doctrine, with portions of hymns and rituals missing or lost to time.
The text notes that ancient scriptures numbered around 20 books with a million verses. It attributes the loss of the Persepolis and Samarkand copies to Alexander the Great. It adds that the Avesta is only imperfect remnants and roughly one tenth the size of our Bible.
A quip on double lives notes success comes from keeping them parallel. The joke warns that when the two existences finally converge, trouble follows. The remark frames the danger of a life lived in two separate strands.
Hollis ter promotes Rocky Mountain Tea as a spring medicine that clears the blood, builds up flesh, and makes you strong and robust. Sold as Tea or Tab for 35 cents by F. D. Stubenrauch, 58.
F. D. Stubenrauch promotes Hollister's Mountain Tea as a remedy for matrimonial bliss. The advertisement claims lasting love between spouses if both drink the product, presenting a humorous, cautionary note on domestic harmony.
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