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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1907
Page
2
An OCR fragment shows a woman expressing emotions about a parental marriage decision. The text includes disjointed phrases about a child, an aunt, and gratitude toward a father who married the sister, reflecting personal family dynamics.
A Burlington North Carolina woman reports a drastic skin improvement in her cousin after using Cuticura Remedies. The child, once covered with a thick scab and suffering birth-to-six skin disease, recovered after about two months of treatment and has had soft skin and no scars since. The testimonial notes were dated June 16, 1905.
A brief comic note from Puck shows Mrs Hig is relieved her husband John will walk the baby for an hour or two, easing the evening routine. The quip emphasizes domestic life and timely support without drama.
In San Francisco Judge Dunne sentenced Mayor Eugene B Schmitz to five years in San Quentin for extortion of 1175 from French fostering keepers, amid raucous cheers from hundreds in the courtroom. The crowd tumult included hats thrown, shouts of good for you, and a clash of protest as the judge maintained order.
Folk tale about Sir Philip Calthrop and John Drakes the Norwich shoemaker. A knight buys fine cloth for a gown, the tailor makes a similar gown for the shoemaker from the same cloth. On discovery, the shoemaker swears, and the tailor admits he matched the knight. Drakes vows never to wear gentlemen's fashions again.
New York July 9 Attorney General William J Jackson asks Supreme Court Justice Platzek to appoint a referee to take testimony on alleged telegraph rate fixing by Postal Telegraph ended Western Union. He seeks a testifying list including George Gould Jacob Schiff Morris Jessup O H Harriman Clarence Mackay Robert Clowry. Action under 1899 anti trust law seeks to restrain the alleged combination to raise rates.
A suspect accused of robbing the Farmers Savings Bank at Masonville Iowa is tracked to Beloit Wisconsin. Police link the man, who calls himself Woods, to the March heist and plan to transport him to Chicago for questioning.
The Medical Times for April argues against patent medicines sold without prescriptions. It cites that a year’s expenditure on patent medicines in the United States reached 62 million dollars, enough to fund a doctor’s income of 2,000 dollars for every practitioner. It contrasts this with a claimed 40 million dollar figure and estimates doctors’ fees far exceed medicine sales, totaling about 230 million dollars, based on 115 000 physicians with an average 2,000 dollar income each.
A newlywed suburban gardener who neglects other duties and overreacts to failed crops learns his peas corn and tomatoes fail while neighbors’ plots flourish. He blames seed quality despite buying the best 15 cent cans, exposing domestic temper and humorous disappointment.
A fragmentary dialogue questions the worth of poetry versus drama and prose. The speaker challenges Why and De Possy on success, publication, and the value of plays. The exchange hints at financial pressures and artistic judgment in early literary culture.
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