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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1912
Page
3
Harry Edise, 47, a Hinsdale street truck driver, killed a large Newfoundland that attacked schoolchildren. Without weapons, Edise leaped from his truck, kicked the dog, and wrestled it to the sidewalk. The animal bit his left arm and fingers before Edise throttled the dog to death amid a growing crowd.
States pass varied limits on women’s work hours. South Carolina sets 60 hours weekly in mercantile houses and textile mills, Ohio and Massachusetts enact 64 hours, Utah and Missouri adopt nine-hour rules, Illinois expands the ten-hour standard, Wisconsin adopts 55 and a half hours, Minnesota tightens penalties, Washington and California adopt eight-hour days with broader coverage.
Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts, later vice president, briefly led a company of recruits in Washington during the Civil War. While marching up Pennsylvania Avenue he blocked by a fence and treasury wing obstacle. With a quick improvisation he shouted “Come round like a gate” and steered his men to safety.
A strawberry plant imported from Iberia last spring by Edward Dixon of Forest Grove Oregon bears fruit every month. The berries are white when ripe and smaller than the Oregon berry. Flavor resembles pineapple. Blossoms and fruit appear weekly year round. best season for harvesting is not stated.
In Jerez de la Frontera Spain it is claimed that any animal gains remarkable toughness after two generations. The cause is attributed to the wild clover called zulla found only in Cadiz province. Zulla is said to be the finest horse food, thriving in chalky soil near vineyards that yield sherry. It grows three to four feet high and is never cultivated.
The reader asks what separates probate from district judges. Deacon Philander of Osborne replies with a wry joke: you tell the probate judge you can't live without her and tell the district judge you can't live with her.
The New York Sun recounts the life of Antoine Tounens, a French butcher’s son who became self-styled King of Araucania in 1861, battles with Chile, ends as a waiter in France, and traces the doomed romance of Princess Marguerite, daughter of King Orelius Antony I, who died in a Danish almshouse after fleeing her realms.
Sir John Gorst urges Britain to overhaul a failing education system he calls starved and stunted. He criticizes elementary schools for drilling over true learning and laments medieval restraints in higher and university education, noting parallels with American systems.
A fragment notes that French authorities approve of a wholesale destruction of books, acknowledging Edmund Gosse’s praise while condemning the scale of erasure. The text hints at a broader cultural purge and mentions a coined special method.
Horses will be the best ones we have had the pleasure of selling to you. Everybody attend this sale. Don't Forget the Date and Place.
The passage notes a peak date of 1790 when church property was confiscated and many volumes burned. In Paris 808,120 volumes from monasteries and convents were burned, with a national total around 4,194,400 volumes destroyed across the country.
The piece notes a shift in Boston where newborn girls are taller and stronger, signaling vitality. It attributes the change to societal influences like militant suffragism shaping the era and the nature of infant development.
A concise reflection on how similar materials shape vastly different outcomes. The quote by G H Lewes suggests individuals transform circumstances into either grand or poor structures of life, highlighting personal agency within given bounds.
Frederick G Burghardt barber declares a will with unusual funeral wishes. He orders a brass band to play ragtime tunes, a lunch and drinks for mourners, and his undertaker to place him face down with hyacinths and rosebuds. He says tears are unnecessary as he has seen fourteen family deaths without shedding a tear.
Grandpa recalls garnet as a simple lovely stone once worn in old fashioned jewelry. Grandmothers wore a breastpin or earrings borrowed by daughters. Garnet is now common and undervalued, ground into fine powder for high-class sandpaper.
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