Elected Superintendent of Mining Plant in Mexico
The report notes an individual elected superintendent at a large Mexican mining plant with a salary of $15 000 a year. He previously lived in Pella and is brother to Mrs Dr Todd of the city. The piece recounts his 1874 move to Colorado with Dr B F Keables, his government mining role, and rising business rewards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Nossaman
Pella
Dr. Todd
Colorado
B. F. Keables
At the Eleventh Hour Bride Chooses Love Over Wedding
Lucy Rutherford frets over an arranged marriage as a last minute confession to Ralph reawakens old feelings. A hurried plan forms to flee before noon tomorrow, with Lucy concealing a photograph of her true love and a wedding dress tucked for escape. Marie aids as the carriage nears, hinting at a rushed, intimate liaison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie
Mademoiselle
St. John’s Church
Lucy Rutherford
Lucy
Hugh Goring
Ralph Anderson
Ralph
Texas
Sam
Mrs. Rutherford
Miss Rutherford
Central
Marle
Central College notes and local visitors in Pella
Asa Catlin visited Otley with friends while John Heerema and Dick Van Gorp joined Central College as new students. Gerrit de Jong is ill with la grippe at home in South Pella. Prof A. D. Cox of Central College traveled to Des Moines on business last Saturday. Vanderpol's sale ends Friday night January 11. Many locals arrive, travel, and report road conditions and family visits across Pella, Otley, Doon, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Green
Oskaloosa
Green
James
John Heerema
Dick van Gorp
Central College
Gerrit de Jong
la Grippe
South Pella
A. D. Cox
Des Moines
Edd S. Cook
Vanderploegs
Otley
John Weyerse
Tracy
Pella
Henry de Jong
Hattie
Sioux County
Neal de Jong
Near
Sully
Frank de Reus
Mercy Hospital
L. A. Garrison
Monroe
Scarborough
Jay Lapham
Osage
Iowa
Central
Lapham
Jennie J. Love
Jennie Jansen
Wieppe
Idaho
Cash only for feed and livery after 1907
A notice states no credit for feed and livery starting January 1 1907 and urges cash payments. The writer remarks the state agricultural society grows wealthy while seeking a further $150,000 from the state, criticizing it as excessive generosity.
Carlyle and Huxley Clash Over Evolution
Carlyle’s dogged insistence on his own ideas caused a rift with Huxley during the evolution debate. Years later they met in London. Carlyle quipped that humanity must be unlike apes, while Huxley hoped for peace. They chose to maintain their long standing disagreement.
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Carlyle
Huxley
London
They Needed the Moon A New England Medical Society
In a sixty year old New England medical society a dispute arose over shifting the meeting from the Thursday before the fall of the moon to the third Wednesday each month. Three elder members defended the tradition saying moonlight once guided country doctors home and the time would preserve the society’s character even as roads and lights improved.
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New England
Invention of the saw across ancient to modern times
The text traces saw origins to Daedalus or Talus per ancient authors, notes Egyptian monuments from 2500 to 8000 B.C. and mentions early water powered sawmills in Augsburg in 1822 and possible early Paris use. It references Norway pine mills in 1880 and broader European spread in the sixteenth century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pliny
Daedalus
Apollodorus
Talus
Egypt
Augeburg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Peck
Pella Opera House
Kersbergen
Knoxville
George W. Long
Board of Supervisors
Leopold Liske
Liske
Edgar Fee
Tuesday Register
Lawrence
Jesus Christ
Roya
Spplieg
Asa Catlin
Council Grove
Kansas
Vanderpol
G. van Zee
Leighton
Mr. van Zee
Isenger
Rock Island Station
George Clark
P. C. Lankelma
Simon Plopster
Doedyns
Orange City
Toots” Bruinekool
California
F. Carpenter
Galesburg
Lizzie Hemminger
St. Paul
Dr. Mitten
H. P. van Gorp
Bart Haaze
Sheldon
Mrs
Henry Haaze
John Thommassen
Lone Star State
M. P. DeReus
Doon
J. E. Edmands
Chicago
Lake City
Effie Stubenrauch
Fannie’ van der Wilt
New Sharon
E.’ Sterrenburg
Jake Sterrenbuirg
Rev
James Roovaart
Frank van den Berg
Wes
George Petters
Little Son
Applington
A. Doedyns
O. W. Catlin
Otley Baptist Church
Willina
Dora Carpenter
Omaha
P. Ten Hagen
Peter Koopman
H. P. Haze
John Roovaart
Harvey
Roovaart
Nellie Rhynsburger
Mrs. C. Rhynsburger
J. A. Viersen
Chisago
Sterling P. Shaw
Shaw
Marion
Bert Kersbergen
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