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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1911
Page
1
Arie DeBruine, John Faassen, and K. Vanisseldorp will attend a council session as the governing body meets on the first and third Tuesday nights each month to discuss local matters.
Notice to qualified electors of Pella Iowa Marion County that the regular city election will be held Monday March 27 1911. Voters elect Mayor Treasurer Assessor two Aldermen at large and one Alderman per ward with polling places in City Hall Engine Room and A P De Reus barber shop. Polling places list judges clerks and police for First Ward and Third Ward.
The article lists election officials and polling hours for a March 9 1911 notice in Pella Iowa by Mayor N J Gelman. It blends festive St Patrick's Day remarks with comments on weather farming exports militia duties and transport trends and cites opinions on March weather and Saint Patrick lore. It quotes multiple newspapers and discusses March seasonal changes and public sentiments.
The article notes the first school garden in the United States began seventeen years ago at the George Putnam Grammar School in Boston led by Mr. Henry L. Clapp. It traces prior efforts abroad in Austria, Sweden, and Russia, and explains how school gardens shifted from ridicule to official endorsement by the U.S. Commissioner of Education and top universities.
The Oskaloosa Glote reports a sweeping act authorizing a state fish and game bureaucracy and creating a Sportsmen's License. The law requires licenses for all hunting and fishing over sixteen, with a $25 fee for non residents, and allows broad state wide hunting and fishing with owner permission caveats.
A Des Moines News editorial rebukes demagogic pleas to use military force to protect wealthy Mexican investments. It argues lives and property are sacred, calls for national honor, and warns against inciting international incendiaryism aimed at the rich. The piece condemns editors who exploit fear to sway readers.
Frank J. Cheney declares as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. sworn December 6, 1886 before notary A W Cleason in Toledo Ohio. testimony references blood and mucous surface treatment.
The Millinery Trade Review notes a lively market across styles from oversized to bonnet shapes. Demand remains broad with large and small hats sold in pressed and hand-made forms. Paris arrivals for the season hint at continued growth in hat sizes, while some trends hew to modest, ear-hugging designs.
The Winnebago mission began with Catholic influence then Presbyterian efforts from 1868 under Rev. J. Wilson, then Quakers, then Rev. S. D. Martin, and finally sustained by Dr. Roe and the Woman's Board. Despite years of seed sowing and a dilapidated start, converts like Henry Cloud emerged, notable for Yale and Oberlin connections, as the field shifted to the Woman's Board two years earlier.
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