Pella Boy Scouts Health Drive Reports Milk andExercise Wins
Dear Friends of the Xmas Seal Sale the pennies fund health work in Pella. Fifty four dollars aided state headquarters while home a portable Victor brings exercises to all rooms and grades. Milk in schools benefits about 111 daily participants with 30 pints funded by the seal, and weigh-ins show gains despite illness. Funds running low. Red Cross aids temporarily. need about seven dollars weekly to continue milk program through May.
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Red Cross
BOY Scouts
Harrisburg Telegraph Quotes on Social Confidence
A fragment from the Harrisburg Telegraph notes that a girl who understands social cues can persuade a man to believe what he tells her about himself, implying confidence makes one stand out rather than be a wallflower.
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Harrisburg
Telegraph
Lead of Great Purity in Trade Industries
Fragment describes lead collection related to ten trade chests and its value in making the best kind of gilding. Mentions multiple axes for this work and identifies lead as a valuable material in precious metal production.
The Unwritten Law Trial and the Twin Sister Defense
A dramatic courtroom sketch follows Madge Ellice on trial for murdering her husband. The prosecuting attorney rejects the unwritten law as a factor, while the defense posits a mythical twin sister as possible culprit. The jury returns not guilty, amid mixed sentiment and a cautious judge.
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Billie
Elveryone
Ellice
Mrs. Ellice
Hal
Madge Ellice
What of America and Patriotism in Modern Times
An address asks if American loyalty endures, decries lawlessness and capital labor clashes, and urges public opinion to defend laws and aid weaker nations. It argues genuine patriotism links to universal ideals, world responsibility, and a renewed commitment to democracy as a national duty.
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Lexington
Paul Revere
Boston
Bunker Hill
Washington
Delaware
Saratoga
Yorktown
Valley Forge
America
United States
Williamson County
Ilinois
Yat Yas
John McCra
Flanders Fields
Roads of Ancient Egypt Described by Dr Pisher
The article cites Dr Pisher of the University of Pennsylvania noting Egyptian roads resembled modern macadam with leveled right of way large stones packed layers of progressively smaller stones and a wetted finished surface, sculpted by pounding likely by hand per Harper's Magazine quote from Charles Pierce Burton.
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Egypt
Doctor Pisher
University of Pennsylvania
Charles Pierce Burton
Harper's Magazine
Cartoony Time Golfing Portrait Turns Grim Reaper
A Boston transcript cartoon shows Time as an old man with a golf club replacing the scythe. He plucks divots from heads, hinting he is a club golfer who nonetheless puts everyone into a hole in the end. The imagery blends humor with mortality in a single panel.
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Boston ‘Transcript
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Cornie DE Bruin
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Castoria
Kemp
Eno Vy
Honey Creek Coal CO
Phil Bishop
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Ames
Farmer's Produce Building
Georgia Chalfont
Fowler Telephone Building
Main Street
C. I. Fox
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J. J. Sybenga
Puritan Drug Store
Aschenbrenner
Geelhoed
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Wormhoudt
Jaarsma Bakery
Pella, Iowa
A. P. Fankhauser
T. G. Fultz
Vander Zyl Bros
F. F. Carpenter
Wagner's
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