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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
6
A compilation of snippets from the Sioux City Journal and local papers reflects wartime talk in small towns. Citizens debate Liberty bonds, politics, and daily life, with notes on a barber chat, a farmer's office, paper collars for cutworms, and Red Cross imagery on a brewery wagon.
An editorial calls for protecting agricultural prosperity amid floods in Des Moines and Skunk river bottoms and criticizes wasteful water light charges. It urges wiser road grading, patriotic wartime service, and eschews pay-to-play advertising schemes while urging locals to support home papers over mail order rivals. It also mocks a proposed 25 cent advertising rate as an out-of-town trap.
Pella readers are urged to use Dean's Kidney Pills with a testimonial from Mrs L Wielaard of 119 Marion St noting relief from back ache tiredness and irregular kidney function. The ad promotes the product price 60 cents and credits Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y as proprietors.
A collection of schoolroom jokes and childlike misfires in a playful dialogue. Teachers correct spellings and quiz children about rulers like Kaiser and Czar while pupils offer humorous takes on geography, family, and wartime questions.
An old advertisement claims a $100 reward for curing any catarrh case Hall's Catarrh Medicine supposedly treats by cleansing the blood. It touts 35 years of use, urges immediate start, and promises general health improvements with testimonials and drugstore availability in Toledo Ohio.
J Van Wynarden formerly near Pella and now retired near Oska loosa visited the Herald office. He recalls prairie chicken hunting, trapping 110 birds in a day, earning 70 dollars in winter, and selling dressed chickens to New York. He notes Indians, buffaloes, and cheaper fish trade with natives.
The regular examination for teachers will be held in the office of the county superintendent in Knoxville Town on June 27 28 and 29 1917 starting at 8 00 o clock Mae Goldizen 23 5 County Superintendent.
EB. W. Archer of Caldwell Ohio recalls that his family has carried Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for years. They use it during extended visits and consider it essential. For sale by F. D. Stubenrauch.
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