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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1903
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR note indicates publication deadlines and rate information for ads. Mentions advisory wording about late submission and a Wednesday January 7 1903 deadline. No clear names or organizations readable.
The column reflects on East Franklin street access, Harvey's brass band, J J Wilson as end man, and the arrest of Lieutenant Governor Tillman for killing an editor. It criticizes rival county papers, demagogues, fashionable women wearing men's socks, church paid advertising, and farmer finances. It also questions cane sugar policy, the trust agitation, Havemeyer, and Jenkin's coal mine seizure proposal amid Deacon Baer's stance on federal aid and coal-baron supervision.
The article denounces local tax and road funding concerns and calls for rural school consolidation to improve roads. It defends saloon taxation while criticizing the Weekblad’s stance, urges a modernized city council, annexation of North Pella, and timely street improvements as growth continues. It also notes a legal notice about Helena Langley Sluis's will filed in Marion County Iowa.
The sole referee of the District Court of Iowa in Marion County will offer at public sale Lot 4 in Block 28 in the City of Pella as recorded plat June 42 1848. Sale at the Bousquet Lyon office in Pella on Friday January 16 1903 at 2 pm, cash in hand with abstract available at Bousquet Lyon for examination.
On January 24, 1903 at 2 p.m. John G Thomassen offices in Pella Iowa will sell at public auction the Gourt Thomassen Estate farm. The property lies east of Pella, northwest of Oskaloosa and north of Leighton, comprising the NE, SW and SE quarters of the NW quarter in section township 76 range 17 west of the fifth principal meridian. The farm includes two improvements, a deep well and cistern, springs, running water, sheds and cribs with easy terms to be announced.
An instrument purporting to be the last will of Believes, deceased, is on file in Marion County District Court. Hearing set for February term beginning February 1, 1903. Guo J Thomassen, attorney. Also a public sale of the Rea Simon de Haan dwelling and lot in Pella, Iowa, at John G Thomassen’s office. Sale terms to be announced.
I Silverman buys hides, old irons, metals, winds of fur and tallow at top market prices. Do not sell before seeing him to maximize return. Office at the first counter south of City Mills.
A notice from the District Court of Iowa Marion County announces a public sale of real estate in Section 35 Township 77 N Range 8 W. The property, described as the NW of the NE and related parcels in the NE quadrant, is subject to highway privileges and located at Bousquet & Lyon in Pella. Conducted by Referee Joan A Pos at 3 PM on Friday January 36 1903. Cash in hand and an abstract of title available for examination at the referee's office.
Scientific note records a dramatic test by E. C. DeWitt & Co in Chicago using Kodol. One teaspoonful mixed with 3,000 grains of mixed food digested in four hours at 103 degrees, surpassing a healthy stomach. Kadol claims to mimic the stomach’s exact juices and acids, easing indigestion and dyspepsia. Allen & Stubenrauch hold the agency.
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