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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1902
Page
8
An essay on post holiday fashion shifts from fur sale scraps to lavish spring summer gowns. It details the era's Empire and tea gowns in mousseline and satin, cerise embroidery, black net boleros, and pale pink lace. Paris influences lavish babied jewelry, with caution about Art Nouveau rings amid bold styles.
The piece recounts Rider Haggard's A Winter Pilgrimage noting tourist vandalism in the old world, citing a Cyprus shrine and a legendary everlasting lamp. A traveler questions the flame’s guardianship, then quips that it, perhaps, is out now, highlighting the tale’s irony.
Des Moines reports from Feb 17 to Feb 22 show Iowa legislators advancing measures in health, finance, labor inspection, stock sale fraud, divorce restrictions, and highway funding. Proposals include empowering the state board of health, outside lending bans, guardianship limits, labor reports, a fish way, street railway inside grounds, valued property tax, and stricter election spending rules with varied penalties.
Chicago letter mailed November 15, 1874 at the Metropolitan hotel long since closed, delivered Friday to Frank McDonald at Palmer House. Stamp canceled at Chicago post office on the same day and the letter arrived February 21, 1902, more than 27 years later.
Enid Dickens granddaughter of Charles Dickens wed Ernest Bourchier Hawksley son of Cecil Rhodes solicitor in London. The bride is noted for achievements in literary and art circles. A Nineteenth Century writer argues nonsense reading harms the press until respected families view it as drink.
A November 1 1901 tale from Guttenberg Union Hill and Jersey City describes a dawn raid by German settlers hunting rabbits with multiple dogs guns and labeled signs as a sleepless writer watches veiled by mischief. One rabbit hides under a barn as a Teutonic hunter on a pony leads the field.
A large number of cuttlefish have recently been caught off the north coast of Germany. They have never before been found in these waters, making the reason for their appearance difficult to explain.
A speaker extols personal responsibility as the basis of trust in public life. He asserts leaders must declare responsibility for actions, avoid cowardice and hypocrisy, and run organizations with honesty, directness, and promptness, promising transparency to the public.
Letters praising Peruna as the age’s catarrh remedy pour in from all classes in the Union. Governor of Oregon endorses it, noting use for colds in his family. Dr Hartman urges households to keep Peruna for coughs and winter climatic ailments and to obtain his free book "Winter Catarrh."
Venice hosts a German school with more Italian pupils. Paris Milan Stuttgart and Zurich maintain small scale schools relative to population. Mrs. Oliver Ames funds a brass band for the Oliver Ames High School in North Easton Massachusetts. Harvard’s Prof Hugo Munsterberg proposes a new Emerson Hall for the philosophy department.
Erie Kansas resident W H Ketchum suffered a five month back pain in 1900. After trying doctors with no relief he used six Dodd's Kidney Pills daily, soon felt soreness vanish, then finished a second box and has had no trouble since.
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