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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
8
A verse praised beauty of sea and sky, then a school scene contrasts language learning. A child recalls French phrases at spring break, while a sister jokes about mastering English. The two vignettes reflect language, home, and growth in simple domestic scenes.
A village tale recalls Old Jack the cart horse at John Hall the blacksmith. The boy nails wrong, Jack limp to shop, Hall removes shoe, bathes foot, and Jack trots away. Jack stays playful and loyal, never keeping his master waiting long.
A story of Aunt Lulu guiding children through hands on projects to keep busy while their mother is ill. They craft animals from pasteboard boxes, assemble scrapbooks from magazines, create dancing figures, and sew rag balls. The activity leads to window displays, pretend markets, and a future county fair.
Ben hesitates to spend his Christmas money on gifts until he learns Mrs Swift cannot see to read or sew. He buys spectacles to help her see and earn a living, discovering true happiness comes from helping others. Robert notes the act, and Ben feels prouder than any other boy this Christmas. In a separate exchange, a father explains why fishes have no legs while ducks have them.
An old newspaper fragment mentions Scott's Emulsion as a tonic after illness, praising its nourishing effects and claiming it aids blood and nerves. It also notes a poultry book, farmer magazine cutouts, and a county fair, plus Aunt Lulu supervising quiet play and chores for the children with plans to visit forests and gather flowers.
The article discusses pidgin English used in Chinese ports and households, tracing its origin to business shorthand like busin and apishin. It gives examples from Shanghai tailors and an American customer, showing phrases such as That book pay my and Miss A have catchee master, illustrating the era before Chinese suffrage. Army W. Hotchkiss notes in National Magazine.
Reports from Henderson or Elizabeth island describe a tiny uninhabited coral outpost about 120 miles northeast of Bitcairne. It hosts a peculiar animal menagerie including a fruit pigeon, a honey eating parakeet, a rail, and a reed warbler, with two birds drinking only dew or sea water. Also notes a great Orion nebula receding from Earth at eleven times the speed of sound each second. Bertie and sister story adds a child’s joke about a missing book.
A London Spare Moments excerpt condemns a William III equestrian statue in front of Trinity College Dublin as perhaps the worst in the world. It notes a foreleg flaw where one leg is straight and the other curved, yet both hooves meet on the pedestal.
A Washington Herald feature notes that happiness remains elusive as wealth arrives slowly. The piece quotes a sentiment that even a dream of riches collapses when possessions, like cast iron dogs on the lawn, go out of style after forty years of striving.
A whimsical exchange notes a man with a queer job described as a bookkeeper for a bookseller. The scene includes quirky dialogue and fragmented text resembling a sanitized historical newspaper snippet with odd spellings and names.
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