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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1902
Page
3
A compact verse in a Century publication echoes Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The speaker celebrates shared joy and resilience in love, portraying two companions who transform any place or season into a personal blissful world. The poem frames love as a timeless, elevating force that transcends sorrow.
Richard Dunlap, a punctual banker, visits Knickerbocker bank on New Year’s morning in Wall Street’s quiet. Sturgis, a reporter, analyzes curb stains and bank interiors with a magnifier and microscope, assembling clues from soot, scraps, and a revolver, while hinting at a larger puzzle with a staged interview that teases answers to come.
Sturgis questions Dunlap about a bookkeeper Arbogast and a possible motive for theft. The examiner learns the bank’s internal checks, night audits, and a January 2 shift to a new system, while a safe in the bookkeepers’ department is examined. The scene ends with Sturgis requesting access to the bookkeepers’ safe as the inquiry continues.
In his memoir The Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate Bishop Whipple recalls a perilous moment when a deranged divinity student entered a cathedral and drew a revolver. The bishop lunged, tackled the man, and calmed the congregation while guards removed the loaded weapon.
Des Moines reports the 28th Iowa General Assembly will begin with caucuses to pick party officers, followed by temporary and permanent organization. Governor Shaw will deliver his last message from Washington before a joint session on Tuesday. Iowa eyes compulsory education, more normal schools, and St. Louis exposition support as losses from 1901 fires surge. Shaw takes Treasury post early February. Mrs. Shaw stays in Des Moines.
A fragment quoted as Tit-Hits features a skeptical theater of power where a governor urges “take stock” and the speaker recounts leaving after threats of arrest for theft. The quip implies political pressure and personal leverage in a dismissive retirement from a prior post.
A Town Topics quotation shows a client thanking a lawyer for saving the estate and offering installments as payment. The lawyer replies that the estate itself can serve as the first installment, making settlement simple.
In the Baltimore American and Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange playful quips about frauds and imitators. The dialogue mocks a claimed influenza cure and notes a misreading of imitation coffee as tea.
A fragment notes a Sunday only vanety style concert labeled sacred in name with playful dialogue about what a sacred concert is and a child’s question. The line hints at a town event titled Toni or similar, unclear.
Senator elect James B. McCreary, a long time Kentucky political figure, wins Democratic caucus support to enter the general assembly. He previously served as governor and senator, with a noted role in the 1892 monetary conference advocating bimetallism.
Washington January 10 The Post reports Rear Admiral Schley’s case is being examined by the attorney general to determine if any legal irregularities taint the court of inquiry The AG will assess the legal phase not the merits If improprieties are found the court verdict could be voided and Schley may decide on a formal appeal to the President depending on the AG’s ruling
Washington January 10 The 1901 report of Martin Dodge director of the office of public road inquiries shows continued work across states on road materials and surveys. The office aided legislatures, cooperators and institutions and plans to expand if funds allow. Philadelphia January 10 The National Municipal League will meet in Boston May 7 8 and 9. Washington January 10 General Knox says Minnesota cannot sue the railroad merger under the Sherman act before habeas corpus relief is possible.
A well dressed young man threw a stone through the shop window of Edward Burger's low office on Sixth avenue and stole diamond jewelry worth 5000 dollars. Though the street was crowded he escaped in the crowd.
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