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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1904
Page
6
Local notes report A De Bie family returning to Pella after a funeral, and mentions a Chronicle and Chicago Morning Examiner readership. Congress adjourns with nearly 800 million dollars allocated for the year, up 200 million from last year. Short items cover a Knoxville brake man injury, a burglary case in Newton, and a riding incident leading to a severe thumb injury in Sioux County.
The passage celebrates spring with lively imagery of marbles, ploughs turning sod, birds singing, and animals enjoying the warm breeze. It notes growth and earth scents, then shifts to local notices: a May synod meeting in Orange City, a health note about Chamberlain’s tablets, an update on Central College printing, and flood impacts on a Rock Island bridge affecting Knoxville traffic.
D. H. Turner of Dempseytown Pa reports using Dr King's New Life Pills for two weeks and says they restored him to his teens. The vegetable tonic is praised for liver stomach and bowels and costs 25 cents at Henry M. Langerak's drug store.
Delays in gas mains installation due to weather. April 26 marked the 7th anniversary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Knoxville with Riverside Lodge members visiting Swan to showcase degrees, followed by supper and entertainment. Seed-Corn Special drew 400 locals to learn seed corn selection and planting for higher Iowa crops. Also notices of Dielemen Coal Company, and a testimonial ad for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy by H P Burbage of Greenville, praising relief after four to five years of coughing.
An advertisement extols Dr Geo W Miser as aMaster Specialist who promises lasting cures for indigestion stomach catarrh and related weakness. It includes testimonials from E Clavanan and E Clarahan attesting to rapid improvement weight gain restored appetite and better sleep after two months of treatment.
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