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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
8
Seventeenth day of June 1916 the board met with all members present. Minutes of last Saturday were read and approved. The board adjourned as a board of supervisors and organized as a canvassing board to count votes from the June 1916 primary. The day was devoted to canvassing the precinct poll books. The board adjourned until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
On June 13 1916 a Marion County Iowa canvassing board completed the June 5 primary vote tally and reorganized as a board of supervisors. The record notes many claimed gopher bounties and lists numerous names. The issue includes a strange will by Charles Lounsberry once a Chicago lawyer who died at Cook County asylum. The will speaks in lyrical terms granting children and lovers imaginative rights, fields and waters, and playful boyhood sojourns while preserving the influence of lawyers.
An article explains deafness cannot be cured by local applications because they cannot reach the ear’s diseased part. It attributes most cases to inflammation of the Eustachian tube’s mucous ring, noting that when inflamed the tube closes, causing rumbling and hearing loss.
The Marion County Iowa board of supervisors, meeting as a board of equalization, examined assessments from all districts but decided no changes were made. Officials and witnesses listed include J. V. Braan Jr and A. Metz, among others, with numerous payrolls, labor, and material disbursements. The session approved a request to use soldiers relief funds to purchase 300 grave markers for deceased veterans buried in Knoxville township.
A missionary from India described falling ill in the interior of India and crediting Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving his life. He noted its successful use as both preventative and cure for cholera, suggesting its reliability for milder bowel ailments in the United States. Sold by F. D. Stubenrauch.
An old newspaper ad promises one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. Circulars are free from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Sold by local druggists for 75 cents. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A devotional verse petition calls on Lord of Hosts to restore peace and guide nations from war’s dark portal toward divine life. The poem from Council Bluffs Iowa pleads for mercy, power, and touch of love to mend broken ranks and lead people to the plains of peace.
A Wellsburg druggist touts Cham berlain s Tablets as the most satisfactory remedy for stomach troubles and constipation after thirty four years of service. Also notes on a Moody Church service where 205 volunteers joined missionary service and raised 20000 in offerings. A fragment mentions a Lat tern divorce and judge giving advice to a young husband.
A moral fragment urges temperate behavior in couples, kindness in children, and gentleness in girls. It contrasts wartime hardship with peaceful society, praising polite manners, compassion, and natural, lively girls over vain, coquettish types. The piece notes women in France serving in the army and laments war exactions.
A public notice quotes Mrs. C B Riley of Ilion New York praising Chamberlain's Tablets after six months of use for indigestion. The notice states the product is for sale by F D Stubenrauch.
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