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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1918
Page
4
A call for boys and girls club work as practical, home and community focused education. It argues for leadership training, earnings education, and project-based farming and homemaking, with clubs operating through homes, schools, and community centers to unite school subjects with daily life. It promotes extending education beyond classrooms and into homes via extension workers.
The article argues Prussia dominates Germany through population, legislation, and the Kaiser linked government. It traces governance to an eighteenth century divine right monarchy led by Junkers, with militarism shaping society and policy, contrasting Prussia with liberal western and industrial areas.
Parched cornmeal forms the base of these wheatless biscuits. Combine one half cup cornmeal with a teaspoon of salt peanut butter and one and a half cups water. Heat mix and stir. add hot to the meal and beat until a spoon drops a drop. Bake small cakes in an ungreased pan yields sixteen biscuits each with protein content.
A thought provoking reflection on conscience having its own force and loyalty comparable to a son's duty to a mother, persisting even through deep moral decay as noted by Exchange.
The piece surveys holidays and their observance, noting when banks close and business slows. It lists American and international celebrations, the old and new year dates, and how calendars differ in regions like Bulgaria, Turkey, and Armenia, plus the link to longstanding cultural rituals.
The text notes no universal national holiday in the United States and that Massachusetts does not observe New Year’s Day as a legal holiday. It lists multiple countries and dates, stating New Year’s Day is observed worldwide in varying forms and that holidays impact international business across 281 days in 1918.
Garret Smith reports Guaranty Trust Company of New York compiled a worldwide holiday list for 1918 showing 281 days are Sundays or holidays. It notes the United States has 64 observed days, Brazil 84, France 18, Italy 23, Germany 20, Great Britain 16, Japan 15, Russia 17, and that war-time changes reduced local holidays. The article discusses implications for bankers and historians.
Nathaniel Pfeffer notes in World Outlook how traditional shared dishes couple with communal chopsticks raise sanitary concerns as guests touch food and mouths while serving themselves. He observes a shift toward individual dishes and service among upper-class Chinese exposed to European or American influences.
A compact survey of odds and evens in fortune beliefs. The piece notes that odd numbers like three and seven are tied to luck in various customs among farmers and in life events, with exceptions such as the unlucky thirteen and the dream triple. It cites superstitions on breaks, bridesmaids, four leaf clovers, and seven’s healing power, ending with the notion that year-age sums forecast luck.
A Bible student outlines how the Greek and Latin churches diverged from the split after Constantinople's founding and Rome’s excommunications. It traces key figures Ignatius Photius and Michael Cerularius, the 1054 excommunication, and later reunion efforts including Fer rara 1439 that failed under public and clerical pressure.
A correspondent notes several boa varieties led by the Gibola or land boa, the smallest and least vicious, said to be tameable and kept to curb vermin. Amazon natives reportedly house them like cats. Market sellers in Para and Manaos display trained boas in boxes, with owners demonstrating their taming. The water boa is described as the largest snake, reaching thirty to forty feet in length and thick as a man's arm.
Mark Twain reflects on early prosperity and thrift in a Boys’ Life conversation with William Dean Howells. He notes his indecision about spending his last nickel, preferring to keep it, a path he calls worthy of cultivation that led to later riches.
A devotional verse fragment asks for daily guidance Lord keep me from sin and help me work and pray. It seeks kindness and restraint, obedience, self sacrifice, and careful speech, asking for guidance and protection for today and tomorrow.
Iowa aims to raise spring wheat acreage from 250000 to at least 750000 to offset winter wheat losses and maintain wartime production. County targets propose northern counties adding 10000 acres and southern counties 6000 each, spreading risk with small plantings. Seed stock from national committee will be set aside from market supplies, sold in carload lots for seed only, with seed priced around 2.31 dollars per bushel via F L Carey of the U S Grain Corporation Minneapolis.
Eastbound Rock Island Passenger Nos 470 472 474 and Westbound Nos 476 473 471 run with 8:09 p m and 6:40 am freight and passenger service stated. Freight must be at station by 5:00 pm prior day. locals carry passengers. Wabash at Howell Station south of Pella lists multiple east and westbound passenger numbers and signal stop rules. all trains daily and on Sundays.
The article states that cheese tea and boiled milk often constipate while raw fruits especially apples and bananas graham and whole wheat bread promote movement. It suggests taking one or two Chamberlain’s Tablets after supper for severe constipation.
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