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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
2
Council members include Jacob Plender John Faassen J S Wilson B H Sack A Waechter K Vanisseldorp. Council meets first and third Tuesday nights each month.
A fragment from a city page mentions a June twelfth Senate vote on direct election of U S senators. It notes few utility connections for a new lighting system and reports a district court ruling that could shutter about twenty Ottumwa saloons, signaling a dry outcome if the Supreme Court overrules. It ends with editorials on protectionism and buyer responsibility.
A 1900s editorial urges Pella business men to set aside rivalries and work together across boundaries. It emphasizes shared strength in unity, patience, and steady effort as the path to absolute success and city upbuilding.
Senator La Follette delivered a four day speech in the Senate hurling strong criticisms at aging lawmakers. The chamber echoed with wails as several senators appeared wounded by his harsh attack, stirring vigorous reaction from onlookers.
The message welcomes graduates home after commencement across towns and cities. It urges graduates to seek worthy work, value character over diplomas, and enter life with earnestness, zeal, and honesty. It emphasizes responsibilities, humility, and proving themselves by their fruits.
A rhetorical exhortation condemns strong drink and saloons. It argues drinking robs strength, name, money, clothes, position, and home, leaving a man stranded with no hope of manhood or heaven. It warns liquor slowly binds and ultimately strangles the drinker.
A grim denunciation argues the nation bows to alcohol revenue, claiming men crack under the drink’s pull as cries for help echo unanswered. The piece asserts government and politics push for sales, fearing loss of votes and rum power, despite ruinous personal costs. It condemns wholescale dependence on whiskey.
A collage of satirical lines on Senator Lorimer the Roosevelt administration the Supreme Court and labor and suffrage debates. The column riffs on Taft Roosevelt Bryan and Republicans with playful asides about figures like Colonel Bailey and Richmond Times Dispatch. It notes Arizona ruins and Charleston Eden claims while musing on Standard Oil breakup and Vanderbilt as ambassador to Germany.
Readable scraps show political jabs on baseball, a White House stables matter, a Milwaukee cow show, dignitaries with honorary Mormon status, and a Chicago divorce case over nicknames Morning Glory and Honey Bunch. The tone hints at a lively, unnamed columnist riffing on public figures and society.
For the week ending May 28 1911 weather saw 6 to 10 degrees above normal temperatures with generally light to copious showers early and late in the week. High 90s on Wed Thu Fri boosted crop growth. corn stands strong though sod ground suffers worm damage. Winter wheat heading in southern counties while hay yields look below average. potatoes face bug damage. fruit and gardens show strong promise. Gro M Chappel, Section Director.
An advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It asserts the Eustachian tube inflammation causes deafness and offers $100 for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrrh Cure. Circulars mailed free. pills for constipation also promoted.
A Honolulu scare stories scene during the 1895 cholera outbreak ends with a feathered prank. A town busybody is confronted by a committee of leading citizens at the water front. a caldron of tar, feathers, and a feathery trick lead to a calm police station encounter with Chester Doyle.
Dewarra a New Britain currency uses dog whelk shells on palm leaf ribs and sells by fathom length or as adornments. At funerals hoarded dewarra passes to heirs. English history records early opposition to bituminous coal, with public decree and evolving acceptance by the nineteenth century, now a widespread source of smoke and harm.
A humorous exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer is cited where a character asserts his bank account is overdrawn and refuses a check. He insists on a $500 withdrawal to be used at a bridge camp this afternoon, prompting a quick back and forth about procuring funds with a handkerchief.
In a Washington Star excerpt, Senator Sorghum reflects on the challenge of balancing appearances with rhetoric. He says his hardest work is trying to resemble his photograph and speak as his speeches when returning to his hometown.
A quirky dialogue from Canada Monthly about children preferring baths and parental myths. The first boy hates baths, while the second jokes his father is a doctor who uses chloroform, finishing with a light note on kid humor.
Visit Keables Drug Store after 2 PM Friday June 16 for free eye examinations and painless treatments. Cataracts, cross eyes, granulated lids, watery eyes, and ingrowing lashes addressed. Glasses fitted to correct sight and headaches relieved. Reference to Charles Broadway Rouss and prompt treatment emphasized.
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