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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
3
A sprawling Iowa notice bundle reports local deaths from accidents and diseases, taxes, school votes, hospital plans, and public projects. It notes a Des Moines court allowing Birth of a Nation films, a Cedar Falls Roosevelt club, and a raft of farm and transport incidents across multiple towns.
Albert Bigelow Paine quotes Mark Twain as a youth who read late at night in bed with a pipe when the pipe went out Brownell the book clerk lighted it and Twain joked that the most untruthful man in Keokuk was Ed Brownell years later Twain told a lecture that Ed Brownell lived there implying a playful memory from St Nicholas publication referencing Keokuk and a young Clemens.
Community notes from Pella describe visits and travels by residents including Ed Cook in Des Moines and A H Brat in Otley, along with Monroe business, egg trade changes, and a Buick sale. Recitals by Leonard Allen at the college and upcoming Glover pupils performance are noted, plus local sewer repair concerns and city safety on sidewalks.
Page lists various farm and poultry items such as eggs and packing stock butter with prices and quantities. Includes advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder for tired feet sold at 25 cents, urging use in shoes and foot-baths.
Speaker Weill notes Iowa papers favor women's suffrage with sixty daily papers in the state and 50 endorsing it, plus 516 of 850 weeklies. The Des Moines Tribune and Cedar Rapids Republican urge equal suffrage be tested with women, while the Nonpareil questions men’s willingness to vote in elections.
An eager window shade department invites you to select hangings for your home. Act now to secure satisfactory window coverings from Vander Linden's Bazar.
Practical advice to reduce flies this summer including sealing doors and windows, using fly tight covers, keeping stalls clean, removing manure weekly, spreading manure on fields, maintaining fly traps near kitchens, and encouraging neighbors to adopt similar precautions.
Rock Island Eastbound and Westbound trains list passenger numbers and times for Nos. 470 472 474 475 473 471 plus Local Freight 88 and 81 with daily operation notes. Howell Station near Pella shows Southbound Nos. 2 and 60 and Northbound Nos. 61 and 3 with signals to board. trains run daily including Sundays.
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