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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1915
Page
7
Local notes recount visits across Pella Monroe and nearby towns. Mrs J S Van Vark and daughters visited friends in Monroe and Mrs Eller from Des Moines visited at her daughter Mrs F R Gambell home.
A letter from Pella dated July 17 1916 criticizes last week’s Chronicle note on The City and the Churchs hitching racks. The writer says the city erred by removing the racks from the square and central business area and urges reconsideration.
A reading letter argues farmers and townspeople share fate in the town’s prosperity. It defends hitching on the square, urges preserving church spaces from business waste, and praises farmers for contributing thousands yearly. The piece ends with a fable urging unity with a moral: pull together or not at all, from Jacob DeHaan Jr.
H. W. Ireland of Louisville Kentucky recalls a severe cholera morbus attack in 1888. Two doctors failed to help, and a hotel porter bought Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A double dose brought relief by morning and allowed him to travel on. The product is marketed as obtainable everywhere.
An old advertisement touts beauty tied to digestion, claiming a beautiful woman has good digestion and recommending Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for indigestion. The ad notes availability everywhere.
Topics span mouth antiseptics and toothbrush time exposure from London Lancet, a vignette on native plants like goldenrod miscalled as gall erweed in Country Gentleman, and a note on Chilean harbor thefts with description of dockside guards and boatload thefts cited by Professor Edward Alsworth Ross in South of Panama.
While riding at night, Sir Montague and a small party paused at a forest fire where a poor lad sang a haunting song. The lad claimed he did not know the maker, but the words later resurfaced with the name Rabindranath Tagore, linking the song to the famed poet.
The article explains that a batman is the driver or manager of pack horses used to carry officers’ luggage. A bat horse is a pack horse, and bat is a pack saddle derived from French. It notes a French proverb about a saddle causing discomfort.
In a late night Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt a front door exchange humorously introduces Brzxvzynskczitz as a famous Russian pianist who has built a name amid barbed wire banter. The scene wittily contrasts street chatter with high culture gossip.
Mrs Clinnick applauds her husband as Brownings Magazine notes a quip about proper language prepositions. The homespun line emphasizes a playful misplacement corrected to for.
A quip on a recent orchestra selection notes it sounded like neuralgia expressed in music. The snippet reflects a wry London Tit-Bits sense of humor about musical taste and critic’s wit. A long, slow friendship is the best, long, slow enmity the deadliest, per Merriam.
Owing to electrical equipment we offer for sale various items in good condition. Two drop hangers 12 in by 1 3 16 in with self oiling boxes. One shaft 5 ft by 1 3 16 in with collars. Iron pulleys 10x4 and 7x1 1 2 in with small hole. Wood pulleys 18x8 in and 6x11 in and 4x5 in. Two shaft couplings compression and key seat for 1 7 16 in shaft. Come in and see us.
Edward Craft of Elba New York says Chamberlain's Liniment eased rheumatic pains stiffness and soreness in his knees after a harsh winter. The ad notes the product is obtainable everywhere and promotes strong effectiveness from personal experience.
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