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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1905
Page
3
In a Cuban jungle a trio of scouts sleeps when a betrayal emerges. Captain Tom Warner, captured by Spanish forces, faces a mock trial and a planned execution. A deserter frees Warner, and a volley kills the colonel. Warner escapes amid chaos, reflecting on the brutal costs of liberty.
In a tale set in India, Cornelia Sorabi relies on Chota Chankidar to battle white ants harming young garden shoots. They debate magical remedies, but ultimately rely on ancestral rites to exterminate the ant pests, highlighting caste traditions and cultural beliefs.
A travel note describes the rapid sunset in central Mexico with a vivid sky, mountain shadow, and fading daylight over Popocatepetl. Night falls as travelers seek their hotel and hear quiet goodbyes from locals, ending with a serene benediction.
A long winded Massachusetts legislator spoke in a near Boston town hall to villagers who gathered to hear him. An old Scotchman interrupted and walked out as the orator ended, while a countryman wrote at the door and asked if he was finished.
A London Field article describes mikirs using monkey calls to lure tigers. A hidden hunter imitates monkey chatter and baby-monkey cries, dropping weighted rags to simulate a falling infant, prompting a tiger to strike, allowing a shot. Deer calls use a fawn cry in open grasslands with risk of danger.
A short, humorous critique on rabies fear and dog bites arguing true danger is overstated. It includes practical home wound care by James Watson and a brief science note on fairy rings and fungal growth in soil, from St. Nicholas magazine.
A green subaltern smoking at his post is reminded by a veteran guard that smoking is forbidden nearby. He douses the cigar, continues his rounds, and while he returns the sentry slyly claims to keep the cigar alight as evidence for morning. Also notes on trout hearing and a Washington Star quip about Graf ton.
A fragment discusses a husband named Jack who is prone to making promises and failing them, framed within a moral tone about virtue and corrected levity, reflecting a domestic or moral-satire snippet from a past era.
Train timetable details list departure times for North and South routes with services between Des Moines, St Louis, and Kansas City. Contacts include C. S. Cranz G. P. T. A. St Louis and L. R. Davis T. P. A. Des Moines for further information.
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