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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
1
A book by W. Fitzsimons reports that baboons in South Africa, like humans with refined tastes, enjoy oysters and shellfish. Troops are observed at the seaside, using sharp teeth to crack shells and feast on delicacies found along the rocks.
Fragmentary quote shows a speaker claiming the key to his pedigree was simply removing the L and R letters from his note. The excerpt appears as a clipped or garbled OCR artifact with no clear context or identifiable individuals.
A playful exchange over musical preferences highlights varied taste. One reader admits openness to both rare and well done selections while another asks what kind of music suits a listener. The brief dialogue reflects casual dining and culture commentary.
Londoners faced widespread alarm from prophecies of doom tied to earthquakes in 1761 and 1524. Crowds fled to Islington Highgate Hampstead and Blackheath while barges filled with refugees prayed for safety as the Thames toppled expectation. A lunatic Bell and a false 1424 correction marked the era’s superstition and crowd behavior.
The piece traces how bitter cold shaped European warfare from Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia to the Crimean and Franco Prussian episodes and before World War I, noting how frost and logistics decimated armies, froze rivers, and tested commissariat systems, with the Turk intervention at Plevna and Osman Pasha highlighted as stark examples.
A footnote in G L de St M Watson's book suggests Napoleon’s evenings at St Helena were soothed by a piano imported from England at a cost to Napoleon of 122 pounds. The musician may have been Mme Bertrand, who reportedly inherited the piano and took it away after Napoleon’s death, as noted in the Louisville Courier Journal.
The text recounts early naval fire ship exploits from 1370 to 1809, describing nuclear-like devices and explosive booms. It covers Italian engineers with brick foundations and marble chambers loaded with gunpowder, 18th century Spanish Armada encounters, and Lord Cochrane’s Basque Roads attack, highlighting the destructive power of explosive naval craft.
An Irish Chicago mother proud of a politician writes of her son’s busy duties. He kept her informed in Washington last year and described a meeting with the president. She excitedly told a neighbor that the president had seen Richard in Washington.
A young worker known for fibbing misses work and sends a letter claiming his child has scarlet fever. The manager grants two weeks leave without pay, fearing the contagion could spread to other employees. The piece from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat delivers this moral about honesty.
A newly married couple argues over cakes. The husband laments his mother’s cakes were superior and the wife responds with a plate of hot cakes. He asks for the recipe, and she bluntly explains she used margarine, aged eggs, alum in the flour, and extra water, with a dismissive tone.
A historic notice offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh and endorses F J Cheney & Co of Toledo by Waldin Kinnan and Marvin as trustworthy and financially able to honor obligations.
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