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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1916
Page
2
For sale a 2H house on South Broadway with electric lights, good well and cistern in excellent condition. See J F Mowe at 1-116 Broadway or call 252 B for details. Also wanted: competent housemaid for two person family.
Eugene S. Knight of Wilmington NC says Chamberlains Tablets are the best he has used for constipation and indigestion. His wife also found them helpful for indigestion. Obtainable everywhere.
Pella Produce Co offers to dispose of pigeons at a rate of $1.20 per dozen in a brief classified advertisement.
The 1120 White Ship wreck carried Prince William the Atheling and part of Henry I’s court to their deaths after a voyage from Harfleur. The sole survivor, a Rouen butcher, brought the tale to England as courtiers hid the catastrophe from the king, who is said to have never smiled again.
A Washington Star item quotes a young man saying he must exercise and quit overeating because he is getting stout. He notes his roommate’s evening clothes won’t fit him, highlighting concerns about health and self image in a brief cheeky exchange.
Local notes report VanderPols big sale and After Inventory promotions, plus a string of visits from residents to Des Moines Oskaloosa Prairie City and Ottumwa. Births illnesses travels and weather warnings share the town’s weekly highlights with names and places.
A prominent school principal reveals humorous student responses from exam papers. The examples include a playful definition of a volcano as a mountain that blows the equator off, a pun on the hill versus mountain, and a misrendered answer about Pharaoh's locusts with a Bible character pun.
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