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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
7
Local items report lace and embroidery sales at Leibsons. Numerous residents travel to Des Moines, Eddyville, and Monroe visiting relatives and attending events. A moderate crime incident leads to a $20 fine, while civic talk covers patriotism and peace.
Classifieds advertise cheap gas stoves and several residences for sale in Pella and South Pella with prices ranging from 600 to 1600 dollars. A purse loss notices calls for return to Dr Crew. The Weekly Bulletin reports hot dry weather, corn growth, haying, and crop conditions in Iowa, with precise percentages for grains and fruit crop prospects. GEO M CHAPPEL directs the survey.
Misses Nina Stuff and Velma Wilson of Knoxville visit Mrs D Freeken. Embroidery Club honored at Lankelma home. Stiernman couple leave for Omaha. Otley builds a coal house. Hendershot to run coal yard. Stierman pair visited Pel la. Births reported for Anderson and Mexican family. Emery Brown visits from Mitchellville. H Stierman ill with tonsillitis. Many attend Monroe Fourth celebration. Dykstra Sr and DeVries planning Canada visit with sons.
Mothers Gray's Sweet Powders advertised for feverishness stomach teething disorders to regulate the bowels and cure worms. Claimed to be a pleasant remedy used by all mothers for 28 years and sold by druggists. Sample offered with address in Leroy, N.
A county fair could expand with varied events from picnics and baseball to circuses and stock shows. Grounds should host horse and auto races, conventions, Independence Day fireworks, and a well managed baby exhibit with proper awards to draw public interest and receipts.
Editor F L Petty cites Mr Roble on replacing the old baby show with modern judging contests run by doctors and nurses. He notes the rise of scientific baby judging as the key attraction at fairs and state institutes and urges counties to adopt the idea with medical society support.
A glimpse inside the linotype operator’s routine shows eight hours daily six days a week at the keyboard. Operators type seven lines each minute and produce a year’s worth of text in one column, earning good pay often delivered by truck on Saturdays. The operator is the unseen force behind the story, correcting and shaping copy when writers falter, with the city editor’s sentence examples illustrating the gaps they fill.
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