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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1915
Page
8
A poet imagines animals in a woodland fellowship. Rabbits and squirrels react with friendly curiosity as the speaker pledges kindness. The verse links animal tameness to human compassion, noting God made all creatures and that gentle treatment could bind four footed friends in harmony.
A Sunday school teacher teaches patience to pupils using a card showing a boy fishing. She explains even pleasure requires waiting and asks what we feed most when fishing. The crowd answers in unison bait.
A Western Christian Advocate notice fixed to a church door in England lists missing family members stolen items and lost youths. It describes missing last Sunday families some youths in Sunday clothes and lambs strayed toward No Sunday school while coins and a lad are lost or gone with older companions toward Prodigal Town Huck Lane. Any helper to recover items or people will not lose reward.
A rich man hosts a lavish meal while a hungry poor man begs at the gate. Neither eats that night. one lacks food, the other lacks appetite, illustrating stark inequality in a single vignette.
A Methodist bishop lauds preachers as the most heroic, self sacrificing body on earth while noting country ministers endure irregular pay and stagnant wages despite rising costs. The Youths Companion quotes a view on tithes linking church support to community fortunes.
Mrs Alice Marks Dolman an instructor urges mothers to realize the wrong and harm caused to children by baby pacifiers stressing the need for safer practices and attentive caregiving in the household.
A period essay urges mothers to avoid pacifiers and thumb sucking as harmful to dental and nasal development while warning against mistreatment of children. It extols Scott's Emulsion for vitality, cites church and home guidance, and culminates in a meditation on Solomon and divine blessing, urging faithful boldness in asking God.
The lesson shows Solomon’s need for divine aid as he ascends to the throne. God asks what he shall give and Solomon, a "little child," seeks fitness for duty, recognizing kingship as a sacred trust rather than personal gain. The focus is on obtaining the divine equipment needed to govern justly.
Clerk Roy Jones fell into a rattlesnake den at the mouth of the Hagle Rock Canyon in Los Angeles. He and friend Ben killed several snakes with sticks and escaped unharmed. The tale, quoted from The Christian Herald, reflects on moral peril and choices between evil dens and rescue.
A prison chapel lesson on Christian courage sparks a prisoner’s demand to lock up strong drink. The speaker, a minister, is urged to apply faith to policy, as mothers and prisoners plead for liberty from alcohol. The note urges true liberty for the country’s youth.
An ad touts a beautiful woman as the proof of digestion health and urges Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for indigestion. It claims the product is obtainable everywhere and implies strong results from use.
The article notes little is known about a certain whaleship and discusses the blue or sulphur bottom whale as the largest living animal. It covers size, weight estimates, throat dimensions, feeding on shrimp, and yields such as spermaceti and ambergris found in these whales.
James Oliver Curwood recalls a startling early expedition to James Bay in Hudson Bay. At sunrise he awoke to a vanished sea, only to learn the tide had dropped seven miles during the night leaving the shoreline far inland.
A quote by Samuel G. Blythe from Saturday Evening Post extols a unified patriotism in Japan. It claims all Japanese, from leaders to laborers, prioritize the nation, conceal faults, and refrain from sharing drawbacks with foreigners, keeping “Japan first” in all affairs.
The London Mirror recounts Macaulay as a self shaver who used no safety razor. Upon Indian voyage his chambers yielded fifty or sixty strops and many razors in ruin. He once cut his hand and went to a barber. He joked about the barber’s charge and feared a great gash on his cheeks.
Mrs. H Grundman traveled to Newton on Friday for a brief visit with relatives.
A Buford North Dakota resident recalls a severe week long diarrheal attack that left him weak and unable to stand. A druggist recommended Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and Evacuea? relief was found after use. the product was obtainable at many druggists.
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