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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1902
Page
7
A fragmented reading presents a detective story titled WAGER by Edgar Morette. It references childhood memories, fields, an apple tree, and changing buds suggesting a reflective mood. The text remains informal, with garbled OCR-like phrases and nonsensical insertions.
In a tense scene the gas attack fails as Murdock, the chemist, rescues a lover and carries him to safety while Agnes cares for the injured. The chemist then seizes a valise of valuables from a safe and plans to exit as a housemaid reports a palaceman waiting. Sturgis watches helplessly.
Detectives storm the lab in pursuit of Murdock. A hidden underground passage is breached and the murderer escapes into a secret chamber before finally being cornered. Sturgis, Thurston, and the police weigh the killer’s genius and the doctor’s grim verdict as Miss Murdock faces her father’s crimes.
Detectives race after Murdock who vanishes ten minutes after a chase. At Sturgis stairs, Murdock's valise and a lead lined vat emit fumes as a nameless figure twists in the bubbling viscous liquid, suggesting a dramatic escape from justice.
A missionary’s small poodle Sally proved a brave defender against a band of Burungi warriors in Africa. Sally charged with a loud bark, tail high, sending armed men fleeing as the caravan pressed on, a stunt the traveler calls a great sight.
A Philadelphia stationer refused charity proposing five cent pencils to a beggar. The beggar mocked the offer but challenged the stationer to pay ten cents, then the stationer accepted the bet and learned a lesson about keeping promises. The Hartford Times notes the reformer’s tactic.
A Chicago Times Herald report quotes a politician’s wife reading praise claiming he held a crowd spellbound. The twist reveals the line cites he read extracts from a Daniel Webster speech delivered sixty years earlier, suggesting borrowed rhetoric and public adulation.
An arctic explorer, warned by a cook about a late bootleg plan, learns the feature season cannot open until after the election. He sends a messenger to summon a rescue party, awaiting relief with a heavy heart in mid August.
A garbled OCR fragment shows a dialogue about sweetness and nerves, mentioning a sensitive tooth and a brief exchange. The line reads You ha rd for 15 minutes and What do you mean sit, with references to N.Y. World. The text is incomplete and lacks coherent narrative.
In July 1889 a Winterset resident mailed stamps and an order to Younker Bros. of Des Moines. The letter surfaced in Altoona during post office renovations and, after 13 years, was delivered to Younker Bros. The tale attributes the delay to fate, not staff, and notes the order was finally filled.
A Des Moines republican county attorney candidate A In Steele is revealed to have married his client’s former wife, Mrs. Lockwood. The trio’s strained history centers on Steele, Mrs. Lockwood, and Frank Lockwood, with Lockwood ultimately resigning his wife to allow the couple to wed while continuing to live under the same roof per a lasting agreement.
An alleged Ottumwa palmist using the name Victor Ross victimized several women, taking nearly $1000. Women were told to pin a money package to a corsage to reveal riches. six dupes appeared, but all declined to prosecute. Ross is believed to have gone to Chicago. Meanwhile Miss Elizabeth Jones leads Sioux City’s Young Women’s Christian Association in a novel program. About 50 cash girls from department stores attend school there every other morning, with managers approving time off.
Mrs Evelyn H Belden longtime Iowa Equal Suffrage association president and national lecturer will leave Sioux City for Washington DC where her husband Captain W S Belden has a treasury department post. Her suffrage activities spanned Nebraska lectures and state organizing work.
After 28 years apart, Mrs. W. K. Worthen of Centerville, raised as an adopted daughter, and her mother who believed her daughter was dead have learned both are alive. They plan a joyful reunion after decades of mourning.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway plans reveal a 30 acre purchase on Davenport’s outskirts, signaling intent to place railroad shops for the Chicago Kansas City cut off and establish a division point for the new line at this location.
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