Thomasson Legal Practice in Pella Iowa
Geo J Thomasson offers practice in all courts with emphasis on writing and probating wills. Collections made. Office on south side of Park residence at No 21 and office at No 28 Iowa Pella.
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1905
Page
6
Geo J Thomasson offers practice in all courts with emphasis on writing and probating wills. Collections made. Office on south side of Park residence at No 21 and office at No 28 Iowa Pella.
A 160 acre stock and grain farm with a 14 room house, new barn 36 by 50 feet, stables for 16 horses, 46 tons of hay, 36 cattle, other outbuildings, deep well, windmill and supply tank. 80 acres cultivated. Priced at 48 dollars per acre for a short time. or watch the paper next week or write us.
Catalog emphasizes school room views, student groups and portraits with testimonials. It lists 1400 students in attendance, graduating class and penmanship specimens. Includes tuition rates, books and board costs, and guidance for pursuing stenographer or bookkeeper roles. Address.
In summer the mud dauber builds a tubular cell from mud at margins of streams and buildings. It lays one egg inside, which hatches into a larva that feeds on living spiders trapped by the mother. The wasp stalks cobwebs and stings prey to place them in the nursery. From Harper's Magazine, H. C. McCook.
The title Old Man of the Mountain applied to Hassan ben Sabbal in Syria about A D 1000. He led the Ismaili sect from Mount Lebanon, forming the Assassins who terrorized Christians, Jews, and Turks for two centuries. Their chief ordered covert murders, giving rise to the word assassin.
A composite of quotes from the London Post and Cleveland Plain Dealer discusses human frailty and the value of broadening education. It notes men facing numerous evils yet continuing grandiose life on stage. A proposal urges schoolmasters under thirty to spend a year away from academia to gain real-world perspective.
A pithy quotation from the New York Press on saving to avoid debt, implying a world of millionaires if everyone saved to escape debt and achieve wealth.
A reflective piece extols the cheerful man who faces sunlit optimism, arguing he opens doors and inspires health. It contrasts sunny resilience with gloom and suggests cheerful mood boosts resistance to illness and speeds recovery.
A 19th century shoemaker compares national foot shapes noting the American foot as perfect and versatile for many shoes while the French English German Spanish feet show varying strengths and weaknesses. The section ends with a quote about Stevenson and Wallace and a club conversation in Edinburgh.
The quote reads that sorrow is not a current incident but a warp of life. It asserts that only by discerning the sacredness of sorrow and the meaning concealed in pain can one learn what life is, attributing this insight to P. W. Robertson.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications says this old advertisement. It claims internal remedies reach the disease, with Hall's Catarrh Cure acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Describes its prescription, ingredients, testimonials, and price 75 cents, with buy info for F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Missouri father praises the common girl in daily labor from desk to factory, noting her honest toil, memory stitched in her gown, and her role in supporting families. He urges admiration and respect for her courage, modesty, and helping hand. Her work shields homes from misfortune.
Two travelers, a Des Moines man and a supposed Newton resident labeled a grafters’ city, spent about thirty minutes in the east room of the Newton depot courtship style as a train neared departure, according to the N M RY conductor.
In Colfax Clipper prose a lovelorn suitor clings to a fear platform and asks for a letter, while the lover dreads the crossing as the engine nears. The scene ends with a screech and a cry of farewell. The fragment captures a melodramatic moment of youthful romance.
J Bennett of Newton loans a deer stomach stone claimed to cure hydrophobia to the Iowa state historical museum for test by a reputable city physician. The owner values the stone at several hundred dollars and seeks official, controlled demonstration to verify its efficacy beyond doubt. T Van Syning of the historical collection said the offer should be used to establish the stone’s efficacy if it has genuine powers.
Chicago Great Western Railway offers a popular coach and sleeping car excursion to St. Joe and Kansas City for $3. Tickets run two days and are valid July 15 starting at 10 30 p.m. Travel the route for family outings and weekend visits.
Information directs inquiries to EB J Sawyer City Ticket Agent at 514 Walnut Street Des Moines Iowa 7119. seek further details regarding ticket arrangements.
Eldon Forum notes that selling a wagon or organ is harder than a bicycle or washing machine while consumers readily pay cash for shot guns and beer at steep wholesaler margins. They accept bread tickets at low value but balk at higher costs.
A brief note promotes Dr King New Life Pills as a remedy for stomach and liver pain and discomfort with claims of relief for headache dizziness and constipation priced 25 cents at Henry M Langerak's drug store A J Kuyper a bank employee in Orange City was detained and could not arrive for the Fourth of July visit but was expected Thursday evening noted as a fine clarinet player.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers a $5 round trip excursion from Des Moines to St. Paul and Minneapolis leaving at 9 30 p m on July 20. Tickets are valid for two days. For details contact City Ticket Agent EB J Sawyer at 514 Walnut St Des Moines Iowa. 7 to 21.
Low rates to Portland Seattle Tacona Bellingham Everest Victoria Vancouver and San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego via Chicago Great Western. Tickets on sale from May 23 through September 20. For sale dates and details contact any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minnesota. 9-30.
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