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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1915
Page
8
The article notes that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle completed a remarkable story last May before a trip to America. It states he wrote it as a final anxious warning to England prior to a new war, which arrived sooner than he feared.
A fictional narrator describes a European powers plan to cripple England with a fleet of submarines. He details sinking steamers near the Thames and off the Dorset coast, air attacks on subs, and the destruction of the Olympic and other ships, as well as strategic moves from Brittany to the Irish Sea. The narrative ends with a return to base and renewed orders until the next chapter.
A Berkeley resident’s generosity enables the National Education Association to offer a 1000 dollar prize for the best essay on The Essential Place of Religion in Education with an Outline of a Plan for Introducing Religious Teaching into Public Schools. Essays must reach the Secretary by June 1, 1915, addressed to D W Springer, Ann Arbor Michigan.
Farm listing describes 160 acres near a railroad station depot and stock yard grounds with a four room cottage chicken house and a good well. The property is close to a church and school, 1 mile to a town of 400 population and within 5 miles of two towns of about 500 each, with BR F. D. mail and telephone, 8 miles to the county seat. 180 acres level and 80 acres rolling pasture, promising a fine pasture.
Direct sale notice from CURG McCOY Blakesburg Iowa offering 65 acres with 65 acres in wheat, fully fenced and cross fenced. Price 100 dollars per acre with down payment and long time at 6 percent. No agents.
Repair shop advertisement notes cracked engine cylinders as a specialty. Monroe Repair Shop is listed in Monroe, Iowa with phone contact 211.
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