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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
6
A silver toned bell on the Alhambra watch tower in Spain was used by Moslems to signal water and a fountain view below. Its sound travels about 30 miles to Liga. A maiden rings it now with fate of marriage foretold by the bell as crowds fete the day.
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a proven remedy prescribed by leading physicians. It claims the treatment cures catarrh by cleansing the blood and mucous membranes and asserts it is a legitimate prescription, not a quack remedy.
A collection of humor and anecdotes includes Bill Nye recalling a Sunday drive with a skeptical companion and a witty retort about a horse’s age, a mother mishearing a college student’s friend, and a child’s remark on coffee’s effects, illustrating light social mishearings and observational jokes.
In Boise Idaho on June 5 the state attorney Hawley alleged the Western Federation of Miners orchestrated a conspiracy behind Governor Steunenberg’s murder. He outlined federation structure and stressed leaders bore responsibility for the crime and others, as Julien Steunenberg testified about a Caldwell meeting with Orchard.
Washington reports that former Secretary Shaw may lead a new fifty million dollar merger in New York banking circles. The Carnegie Trust Company, with Shaw as president, would form the basis of a three New York trust company alliance totaling about sixty million in resources. The proposed merger, already widely printed in the East, stirs Wall Street interest.
United States court in Delaware sentences defendants tied to a conspiracy to conduct lottery advertisements. Judge Joinsins orders fines totaling 284000 and mandates destruction and disposal of all lottery books plates and paraphernalia belonging to the Lottery Company based in Wilmington.
An elderly pioneer described as J.W. Browning of Utah recounts past ailments from fatigue to rheumatism and dizziness. Kidney Pills, sold by Poaster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo, claim to relieve his troubles and keep him well for a year, despite his 75 years.
In 1885 London a celebration honored Dr Samuel Johnson with attendees including Australian cricketer Bonner. When his health was proposed, Bonner remarked that he would not trade Johnson’s revered memory for his own greatest cricket triumphs, a simple, striking tribute noted in Let ters from George Birkbeck Hill.
In Albion Nebraska on August 25, 1906 Mrs Henry Porter describes severe scalp sores after measles covering head and neck. After six months with no relief from doctors remedies, use of Cuticura Remedies led to a noticeable improvement in a week and complete recovery in three weeks. She reports no recurrence for seven years.
In a magazine fragment a German writer recounts a tale about two girls on one stool sparking a quip about sharing and Berlin. The piece also praises home laundering with starch, touts Defiance Starch, and includes a humorous translation about schooling and moral lessons in a grocer’s family.
Fragmentary ad text touts Castorta and Boot Ease with garbled phrases claims a long trusted history and child care suitability. No coherent event or人物 names.
Fragmentary text shows a farmer and summer boarder joking about an anarchist labeled for spending time with other chickens. The passage also advertises laundry starch, English grain imports, cold remedies, and quotes from La Rochefoucauld and Plato, all in a jumble of period advertising and miscellaneous phrases.
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