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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
2
Oska loosa visitors and Newton and Ft Dodge travelers are noted among frequent social calls. Birth announced at Leighton for Elbertha Van Duren. Local business upgrades and a food conservation cartoon at Carnegie Library. Red Cross drive totals 2378 names, near the 2500 target.
New York reports praise for Estelle Gray as a lyric violinist whose masterful Saint Saens performance blends technical skill with heartfelt melody. Chicago notes her dramatic interpretation. Portland admires the pair’s novel programs and Whevinne's approachable Classical renditions. Admission 50c.
The article discusses happiness as the health we attain, learned through health and pain, and notes that modern times reveal the miseries and wrongs of earlier centuries. It argues that remedies rise with understanding, and true happiness is far off, awaiting a future generation.
William C. Geer of Akron Ohio develops a wax and pumice stone writing implement as an ink rich core that wears to release ink. The device blends wax pumice and ink then cools to form a cellular solid that supplies ink as it is rubbed on paper.
Louisiana sugar cane planters have developed a method to make candy from spineless cactus. The peel is removed dipped in hot molasses and coated with sugar to create a rich flavorful confection. This use of cactus provides ample raw material and allows sugar mills idle for nine months to join candy production.
An essay argues that thinking does not travel to the moon or distant minds. It posits thought forms in the brain and remains there. It notes light travels 186000 miles per second and asserts brain vibrations would diffuse over distance, challenging telepathic theory.
The Kremlin houses Uspenskiy cathedral with coronation legends in Cathedral Square and Archangel Michael’s tombs for emperors up to Peter the Great. The treasury stores rulers crowns and thrones, while the arsenal holds a priceless war-gear collection. The inner walls showcase Russia’s architectural history ending with Ivan’s tower at 828 feet topped by a gilt dome.
The article lists international emergency rations for soldiers, detailing U S troops three maize meal packets and three chocolates, while other armies use compressed meat rations, compressed teas, compressed rice and macaroni, oat bread sausage forms, and novelty items like fig coffee and smoke-dried pears. It notes the Swiss white chocolate and Italian army sausages and plum duff in beef membranes.
The December library report shows average daily circulation figures, noting the largest daily total and the smallest daily total. Specific counts and library names are not provided in the readable text.
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