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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
1
A mother defends strict parenting noting a girl’s willful behavior at a summer resort. A congressman criticizes the federal income tax as fostering lies, while county assessors are said to hear many falsehoods. A Chicago professor condemns women’s dress and morals in a broad, unfair tirade.
The author rejects a professor's harsh view of women as enslaved or ruined by modern life. He affirms that American women are generally virtuous, thrifty, and devoted to home life. He notes women increasingly enter business and politics, yet their primary role as wife and mother remains central and valued.
A seven pound hand lifting electro magnet is described for lifting sheet iron steel plates and bulk items like nails bolts. Operated by 110 volt direct current via a plug in an incandescent socket, it uses a top mounted push button. It aids cleaning chips and removing dropped tools in hard to reach places.
At the Iowa State Fair a Sioux Indians village will present a new, instructive display with 50 Indians from the Dakotas. The program includes Liberati concert, Battle in the Clouds, nightly amphitheater shows, stock pavilion vaudeville, Parker tent shows, and band concerts by the Iowa Brigade and the Fifty-Sixth Regiment. The event emphasizes education alongside entertainment in a traditional fair setting.
In July Technical World Magazine the method describes picking up particles of iron or steel from tubs or paint using two poles immersed in the liquid containing the particles and the poles simply dipped in to collect the metal filings.
A reflective poem tracing the poet’s lifelong fascination with clouds. It moves from childhood daydreams of divine visions and castles in the sky to adult longing for peace and a celestial homeland, recalling Patmos Island and the serene isle’s rest. The piece ends noting Farley, Iowa.
A local ad states Van Maren's offers mower sharpening and adjustment to restore cutting quality, charging fifty cents. The service promises mowing performance comparable to a new machine and invites customers to bring in old mowers for refurbishment.
Notice states that the Pella Canning and Pickling Company, a Iowa corporation based in Pella, was dissolved at a July 1909 stockholders meeting by unanimous consent. Secretary Adam Stirling is authorized to publish the dissolution notice.
A passenger ignores pleas for payment as the conductor lectures on the monetary obligation of riding, quipping about weather, a nearby observer, and service, before the passenger finally awakens from trance. Susanne? Good housewives prefer Gold Medal Flour Salome.
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