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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1907
Page
4
A prominent German physician, Dr Bair of Des Moines Iowa, is noted for receiving hundreds of testimonials from grateful patients praising his medical skill and compassionate care. The item highlights widespread support and patient appreciation.
A collection of historical notes traces the potato’s journey from Peru to Europe, detailing names and spread through Germany France and the Low Countries, and recounts sailor anecdotes about side ventures and crafts aboard ships including photography knitting and carving. It also includes light vignettes on colors and seamstresses and a brief tale of Signor Toll the basso. It ends with a short explainer on solar days, mean versus apparent solar time and the relation to the civil and astronomical day.
A keeper using patient persuasion gradually tames a rhinoceros in a cage. He coaxed the beast to front, stroked its horn, and after weeks of trust built the animal's tolerance. With careful handling a wooden tool and eye to safety, the horn was finally removed without protest from its owner.
Paddy recalls a giant pike tale told at Angler's Evenings. He describes the monster as a terror, too large to weigh, and so big a man could walk down its throat, a boast he ends by saying with his hat on to settle the matter.
London physician Dr Robert Hutchinson notes that if time and supplies fail sugar and eggs offer a solid body support. Sugar provides energy but lacks nitrogen, while bread contains some nitrogenous matter to balance intake. In scarcity bread and molasses form a reasonable diet to keep the body in fair condition.
The article contrasts athletic women with Maury Lamb and Miss Wordsworth, both in their fifties or sixties. Lamb claims a forty to fifty mile pace as his standard, while Miss Wordsworth boasts a fifteen mile capability. The piece notes how some delicate women can only manage four or five miles every few days, staying quiet between efforts.
In 1626 Governor Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island for 24 from Indigenous leaders. If the tribes had invested that sum at current compound rates, their heirs would now total about 12 billion dollars, underscoring the financial miscalculation of the bargain.
A window washer on a fifteen story ledge utters a tense line as crowds scatter below. Police on horseback and city traffic objects fill the crowded downtown street scene referenced in a Chicago Tribune item.
Patron voices anger over slow service demanding lunch while Walter the server points out the breakfast order already placed earlier. The exchange captures a dining room moment of friction between customer expectations and kitchen pacing.
A fragment discusses a severe Moorish punishment for treason involving slicing flesh, salting, and sewing the hand in leather to deter crime. The practice, noted as rare and ordered only by the sultan, aims to render the hand useless. Additional fragments promote Vanderpol's cloth and a pun on employment luck.
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