Farm For Sale In Southern Iowa 300 Acres
300 acre farm in southern Iowa with excellent soil and nearly all cultivated this year apart from 20 acres in pasture. Fenced in 40 acre fields with 1265 rods of woven wire. improvements valued around 10000 dollars, including a large two story 10 room house, a horse barn for 12, cattle barn for 50, hog and other outbuildings. Located three quarters mile from school church and store, with windmills, tanks, shade trees, and an orchard plus tenant buildings and a five room cottage nearby.
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Iowa
Pella Chronicle urges civic unity and reform in 1911
The piece calls for a strong start to 1911 in Pella, Iowa, urging residents and business leaders to boost collections, support the Chronicle family, and join the Marion County News in discussing Iowa’s population and farm land issues. It urges voters to choose wisely the city’s mayor and notes the impact of municipal finance on future projects. It praises Oskaloosa for opposing saloons and critiques licensing money as a poor foundation for a city.
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Marion County News
Iowa
Oskaloosa
Globe
City Orders Removal Of Unpainted Poles In South Pella
The city council praised at last Tuesday’s meeting for directing the Mayor to remove unsightly crooked black telephone poles planted on certain South Pella streets. Officials had long sought beautification of main routes, noting poles spoiled the streetscape amid planned lighting upgrades.
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South
Pella
Main Street
The Gate City in Springtime Public Spirit and Growth
A narrative from a local paper notes a small town’s growth and forward look as new families arrive and prosperity rises. It urges unity, public improvements, and encouragement for newcomers and investors to build and settle, emphasizing morality, schools, and commerce as keys to continued progress.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Provides Internal Treatment
Catarrh cannot be cured with local applications as the disease lies in the blood and constitutional system. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acts on the blood and mucous surfaces, and is touted as a non quack prescription by F. J. Cheney & Co. It is sold by druggists for 75 cents, with testimonials available and a recommended Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
First Euro exploration of the Mississippi by Alvaréz de Pineda
The passage notes John Fiske citing 1510 as the year Pineda followed the Gulf coast to Tampico then entered the Mississippi, naming it Rio de Santo Espíritu. He is described as possibly the first European to sail the river, with unclear ascent but extensive trading with Indigenous peoples along its banks.
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Waters
John Fiske
Plymouth Rock
Mississippi
Fiske
Florida
Alvarez de Pineda
Tampico
Mexico
Cortes
Pineda
Rio de Santo Espiritu
Nonsense and Lessons From Everyday Life Fragments
A collage of quips and vignettes on debt, land titles, school missteps, and humorous exchanges. Stories include a cautionary note on honest debt, land abstracts, a schoolroom joke about spelling, a subscription tease, and a Siamese paper excerpt. It also recounts a Sunday school moment on covetousness and a playful ice cart incident involving a German boy and Norah Daly.
Was I ever that big a fool in youth fashion
A marginal reminiscence laments sixties youth fashion with vivid detail of turned up pants socks hats cigars and coats. It contrasts that era with a French hamlet near Paris named Ds Us with unpronounceable origins and two chateaux dating to renaissance architecture, the Chateau a Osny and Chateau de Vigny, tied to the Ahout family.
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Paris
Edmond Ahout
Chateau de Vigny
Young Lawyer Shake Case Sparks Rascal Forgery Claim
A young lawyer takes on a case involving a sly rascal who forged numerous papers. The baffled stand in for a dramatic twist as the plot unfolds with legal action and social chatter.
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Gladys
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Peter van der Werf
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Sigourney, Iowa
The
Pella Chronicle
Oficial County Paper
SADLER BROS. @ CO
G. L. Garrett
Pella, Marion County
Kansas
Chronicle
Hezanner
Electric Palace
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Khoon Tong
Langoon
Harriet
Margery
Alice
Raymond
Ice
Norah Daly
Gwan
Norah
Ahena
Josephine
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W. W. Cook
Standard, Old Companies
Pella National Bank
A. H. Weber
Des Moines
Eye
Keables’ Drug Store
Petronta
Rolen
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