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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1907
Page
3
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women, claiming it cures weakness nervous exhaustion and overwork without alcohol or narcotics. It promises a free booklet of ingredients and endorsements mailed to those who request it and lists Dr. Pierce of Buffalo New York as the authority.
In Smolensk a quarterly matrimony lottery sells 5000 ruble tickets. The winner marries a chosen girl or shares the prize if declined, or passes it to a friend. A traveler wins by chance and, after lengthy exchange, both reject marriage and give the 5000 rubles to the poor. a later twist leads to a royal-backed marriage.
A man with a cork leg recalls a railroad car chat on stoicism and pain. He boasted of enduring pain and, to prove it, pricked his leg with a knife, causing one listener to faint another to turn pale and a third to leave the car quickly, as reported by the New York Press.
Tales recount Brahms keeping pianists in check by seating at the piano with a claim the instrument is out of tune. A bold aspirant argued otherwise, and Brahms replied it mattered to him. A youth once asked for Dr Braims, and Brahms pointed to his own home three flights up, then hurried off.
An animal trainer argues lioness temperament exceeds that of male lions. He notes lionesses can appear affectionate yet become deadly when provoked, warning that many trainer maulings are caused by female big cats.
Greenland glaciers end in vertical faces 100 to 1000 feet high with basal stratification and earth materials in layers. Laminations occur densely, sometimes twisted or shoved over each other. Ice-border movement measured from a foot per day to a foot per week.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer humorous exchange, a man recalls building a two story parrot house. The bird wakes and greets him with profane words, joking that the animal resents him as the janitor. The anecdote plays on instinct and workplace humor.
Dialog excerpt features Mrs Rose and Mrs Pose discussing their husbands. Pose reveals her husband loved himself long before meeting her, while Rose presses about other affairs. A light humor exchanges about self-love and romance.
A fragment notes a First Lady doctor resting and recovering while a Second Lady Doctor is cited as proposing to someone this morning. The passage suggests delirium or uncertain condition of the subject, reported in a Boston newspaper.
Tracey Ashley, a northerner, woos Rosalind St. Leger in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. She disguises her identity with a green domino and masks, testing his devotion. The reveal shows Rosalind as Miss St. Leger and Julius Warfield as her escort. Ashley leaves the city, and Rosalind regrets the ruse as Warfield’s marriage ends the affair.
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