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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
3
A reflective verse contrasts springtime courtship with aging love. A young couple exchanges vows and tenderness under a violet scent and rosy air, while later a silvered-haired woman by the hearth is joined by a partner whispering love. Narration centers on enduring affection across time.
In a tense scene the Sturgis group pursues Josephatham through a boarding house as an old Irish woman obstructs them. The detectives push for Chatham's room while the frightened keeper hints he may be elsewhere, guiding them toward a hallway with offices above and a chemical company room at the end.
Detectives pry open a locked private office and uncover an underground passage. In a chemist’s lab below, Sturgis discovers a concealed bolt and a lead tank with an oily liquid. He extracts a dark object from the liquid, claiming it completes his chain of evidence for an extraordinary tale.
Sprague sits on a pine box while Sturgis narrates an investigation at the Knickerbocker bank. He outlines observations leading to the Murdock residence, identifying the body in the cab and the missing young man, and notes a key feature of the cage.
The confession shows the accountant was a tool in a higher intelligence. A genius unknown to public sight manipulated events through fear, love, and strategic moves. The brains of the plot used a doomed bookkeeper as a pawn, with Thomas Chatham identified as the accountant.
The Philadelphia Press describes a legend tied to the topaz as the stone of gratitude. Emperor Theodosius pardoned a snake and her nestlings after hearing their plea. At dawn a mother serpent laid a gleaming topaz on each of the emperor’s eyelids, restoring his sight.
Fragmentary reminiscence with clipped dialogue referencing Mr Bash and Hoky Jong. Mentions a six year span, a talk with mamma about a test, and a beautfi ul evening. Source reads as a stray, incomplete Chicago Tribune clipping with garbled lines.
A polite request from a tramp seeking light employment is met with a suggestion to clean lamps and wash windows offering small tasks as possible work. The New York Journal records this quainter exchange.
Des Moines reports in depth on railroad tax changes proposed before the Iowa legislature. Senate subcommittee leaders Junkin Lewis Healy and Porter back assessment reforms targeting stock and bond values. House opposition anticipated on rail taxes. Additional measures include earnings reporting, biennial elections, factory inspection, wage payment rules, and stricter candidate expense disclosures. The session also considers board control of charitable institutions, pardon debates, war claim recoveries, and education mandates.
READY TO DEBATE The ninth annual debate between Minnesota Town and Iowa will be held in Minneapolis. The issue is permanent retention of the pine lands by the United States, with Minnesota arguing in favor of retention. Iowa has won six of the prior eight contests, last victory for Iowa was in 1900 at Minneapolis. The Iowa team, selected by the league, trains hard. Two of the Iowa supporters are juniors and one is a senior. Herbert F. Hadley, editor of the junior and this year, serves as first sergeant of the battery and belongs to the Edda society of Scandinavian students. Merritt Brackett, third speaker for Iowa, is a noted athlete and long-time track team member. Edward H. McCoy, opening speaker for Iowa, led dating honors at Iowa City academy and is in the university battery and Newman society.
The annual Sons of Veterans encampment met in Mason City for the veiling of the patriot statue with many state officials in attendance. Speeches were delivered by Hon. James E. Blythe of Mason City and Col. C. J. Ames of Creston. State encampment officers were elected, including Captain Blythe, first lieutenant Whipple, and others from Ottumwa Des Moines Sioux City and Decorah. A banquet followed at the Anderson house with Harry Greene of Decorah to preside.
Enrollment at the newly opened Ames cultural college will reach about 1,150 with representatives from 15 states and the District of Columbia. The botanical department reports 12,033 specimens recovered after a main building fire. the herbarium now totals around 70,000 specimens valued at $10. The state reading circle board and State Teachers' Association met to select next year’s teachers’ reading list, including works from Hodge, D C Heath, and other publishers.
Phil Melloy, known as the man with the leather stomach in Dubuque, gulped seven eggs in ten minutes after a botched bet. He was to swallow twelve eggs in 30 minutes but received fifty extra eggs intended to jostle him. He later offered to eat three dozen eggs and a roast goose, but no one accepted.
James McDonald, a 52 year old farmer, and Elizabeth ee, 55, married after signing a public agreement that neither would claim the other's property. Each party would manage their own property without consent from the other.
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