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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1914
Page
8
A Southern Churchman verse urges daily focus on kindness and goodness. It counsels ignoring faultfinding, praising effort, and staying true to duty. The poem reflects a moral call to quiet benevolence over judgment in ordinary life.
Mr. Ames seeks a neighbor boy to stay with Mrs. Ames and run errands while he is away. He selects Jimmie White, the poorest boy, praising his kind heart over a better behaved but less compassionate candidate. Jimmie agrees to help for two dollars and to look after the pony and study in the evenings.
A boastful passenger locomotive in a roundhouse touts luxury and famous riders. A freight engine counters, stressing practical service and supplying goods like beef, sugar, shoes, and eggs, arguing civilization would struggle without freight transport. The exchange ends amid roaring cheers.
In Farm and Fireside Herbert Quick editor argues for practical education in rural schools. The piece discusses the advantages of hands-on learning for farm youth and reflects on how rural schooling supports farming communities and future residents.
An article cites Scott's Emulsion as nourishing for underweight children and notes rural education shifting toward farm-based instruction. It highlights gains in appetite, flesh, and brains from farm-centered teaching and urges staying on the farm with practical, enjoyable schooling.
A naturalist observes a large meadow mouse on a forest log. The creature uses its forepaws to husk and eat grain, biting stalks in segments rather than climbing. The scene highlights the mouse’s careful, upright feeding method and dexterous little hands.
A former sailor recalls a liberty port exchange between U S and British crews in Hong Kong. The cockney boatswain notes a stern inscription O H Ten on a ship, and another vessel named Ohio is joked about, revealing spirited cross‑deck humor among sailors from different nations.
A doctor recounts a case where two sisters feel a real, unexplainable love while acting as Queen Mary and Darnley in a charity tableau. He links the effect to a crown worn in the scene and notes Paris medical reports backing similar claims. The sisters’ emotions vanish after the curtain drops.
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