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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1912
Page
8
A Lewistown Illinois resident, age 70, credits Dr Miles Heart Remedy and Nervine with restoring mobility after doctors gave up. The testimonial cites heart symptoms and urges readers with similar signs to seek the preparation, sold by Miles Medical Co with a guarantee.
The lesson follows Jesus healing a paralytic at Capernaum. It centers on Jesus calling Matthew the publican and how Jesus welcomes all ranks, sharing meals with sinners and Pharisees alike, and teaching that he came to call sinners to repentance. He shows that the church should adapt to new thought, and that belief transcends old ceremonial bounds.
The wagon travels between the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Treasury loaded with twelve and a half pound packages containing four thousand bills each. Values range from four thousand dollars per package to forty million dollars for ten thousand dollar bills. A single package of utmost value ever rode in the wagon, and the stacked packages would form a monument fifteen miles high.
A devotional poem by A A Johnson from Olinton S D presents the speaker as an alien here while living for Christ and awaiting the Lord's return. The piece expresses faith, striving for sincerity, and longing for the heavenly home. The excerpt then shifts to a humorous anecdote about a grass widow related by a Methodist bishop, with a young preacher explaining hay fever as the cause of a husband’s death. From St Louis Republic.
The account recalls Washington losing a screw from a theodolite during Braddock's retreat. He found a months old Indian child strapped to a board, strapped to his saddle bow, and entrusted her care to a settler's wife at Mount Vernon in 1759. Cassandra grew up as Mrs Washington's attendant, later helping in Washington's funeral preparation. An Englishman, Thomas Smith, married Cassandra to Parson Addison after 1800.
A brief proverb-like note cites a Mississippi steamboat with a very large whistle. It suggests bragging is excessive for the achievement and that effort should be proportionate to action. The exchange ends with advice to have more action than boastfulness.
An essay argues that seeking offense signals weakness while peaceable behavior shows strength. A school leader who avoided disputes with humor became a respected surgeon renowned for precise, steady operations, illustrating courage and skill through restraint.
Mrs Bronson asserts her husband kissed the cook, while Mrs Woodson confirms she encouraged it to outmaneuver the cook who believes she can advance, though she remains loyal and unlikely to leave.
In Washington a three white horse drawn wagon near the treasury stands as a symbol of the paper money system. The article notes that every dollar spent or hoarded by Americans in the past twenty six years has traveled through this wagon, tying it to the nation’s currency.
Grace announces she refused to marry Jack, who says he cannot marry for a year. Maud counters that a man is ready to marry at any time, prompting Grace to reveal knowledge of a ready suitor.
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