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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
4
James Buerkens and many neighbors are recovering from illnesses including measles tonsillitis grippe and influenza. Visitors travel between Granville Douglas and Des Moines while revival meetings begin in Grand River and Coal Ridge. Local society events include a wedding invitation and a charity visit as snow closes roads and a kerosene fire causes light damage at the Thomson hotel.
A roundup of Sunday school times preaching hours and evening services across multiple churches. Includes Holland language services and various meeting times for Epworth League Junior League and C. E. prayer meetings with named pastors and congregations.
In Durham a railroad crew tears out the old wooden depot platform and fills the space with cinders to form a safe permanent surface. Sam Clark of Plymouth reports satisfaction after attending the Ames Agricultural college short course and sees value for farmers. Rev Hendrickson, who has served the M E church circuit this fall, leaves for Indiana. Mr Cline of Sigourney assumes duties, studies at Mt Pleasant College, and plans to move his family here around early June.
The article explains that smoking meat preserves it and subtly changes its flavor. It contrasts slow smoking with old-fashioned methods, noting the latter deposited preservative elements and soot, while slow smoking can dry meat and reduce weight about a fifth.
Advertises coal for sale at the Dieleman Coal Mine located 112 miles west of an unspecified point. The note emphasizes direct purchase from the mine.
An old newspaper snippet promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by affecting the blood and mucous membranes, offering $100 for a cure and noting the product is sold by druggists along with Hall's Family Pills for constipation. the blurb is interwoven with an ad about a mill end sale and a crowded storefront scene.
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