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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
6
City debate centers on regulating electric light charges and probing high rates. Pella Electric Co proposes cheaper water via wells, with ground donation and near city mains. Citizens urged to inform themselves before voting on the issue and potential home mortgage implications.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder claiming to cure painful feet, corns, bunions, sweating and swelling. It promises instant relief and ease for tight shoes, selling in stores and by mail with a trial package free.
A partial list highlights failed city electric ventures in Spirit Lake Audubon New Hampton Strawberry Point Timpton Lyone Fairfield Delta Colfax Marcus Winfield Valley Junction and Jefferson. The piece notes bankruptcy risks, unpaid bonds totaling about 19 000, and debates over municipal ownership versus private operation with examples from St Joseph Brunswick Eton and Jonesboro among others.
The Democrat reports a remarkable cure by Dr A H Weber, a Des Moines occulist who visits the Hotel Lewis monthly. Mrs Scurlock of Cherokee, blind for seventeen years due to cataracts, regains sight after treatment described as painless. Her daughter, aged 16, had never seen her mother until three months ago, and Mrs Scurlock now praises Weber and his claimed miraculous cure.
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