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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
1
The Keokuk Gate City cites Annis’s death and cites the Sioux City Journal remarking on a tea party comment about honesty. The piece laments long winter hardships and predicts sunshine and change. What Cheer Patriot calls for clear public accounting by the school board and city council of meetings and spending.
The article discusses publishing thorough mec line details and lists recent arrests for selling liquor to Indians. It notes Sioux City Iowa as the latest grind site and outlines a proposed bill by Representative Kendall raising the liquor license fee and barring licenses in areas with dry laws, making violators liable under both state and federal law.
The new law requires all hunters except landowners to obtain a license before hunting. Residents pay one dollar while non residents pay ten dollars for any part of the state. Minors under eighteen need parental consent to hunt or obtain a license. Landowners may hunt on their land without a license.
The law states that the licensee gains no additional hunting privileges beyond what is currently allowed and that the license holder may hunt only within the present legal terms.
Pete Swick declares it is time to dig as his family joins in garden chores. Father digs in the soil while mother unearths old seeds, Sonny digs for worms, and sister retrieves peek-a-boo socks packed away last fall. Spring is here.
A reflective piece contrasts a businessman's town improvements with a newspaper man's work. It notes merchants support railroads factories roads and churches and accuse papers of not booming enough, while many readers never contribute financially and rely on borrowed or store-purchased papers.
A neighborly warning urges shutting up chickens to protect gardens and flowers. It states that allowing poultry to run at large harms others who have endured the nuisance and may provoke neighbors to drastic actions if patience ends.
Citizens urged to sustain the town Beautiful movement with small efforts and minimal cost. Aimed at broad improvement, the plan promises shared benefits as community participation grows.
A collection of wry observations on human nature and social behavior. snippets lampoon manners, kindness, neighborly conduct, and self image with humor and clipped aphorisms reflecting a light column style.
A jumble of aphorisms and asides on youth aging motives gossip and manners. It mentions Ezra Timmons a lecturer on child raising authors and a reference to a Gold Medal Flour ad ending with SUSANNE.
In a Clarion tale a pair of children nab walnuts and plan to divide them in a cemetery. A listening negro mishears the voices as a divine and devilish division of people, panics, and flees, pursued by a white man who forces him to return and witness the scene.
The Oskaloosa event drew 244 scalp applicants rather than the expected 500 or more, with weather blamed for the shortfall. Over eight hundred applications were reported, and those absent will be adopted by their home tribes with Iowa Tribe No. 4 credited for the turnout and 114 new members from Oskaloosa.
An old advertisement touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as famous gentle liver pills sold at all druggists with a brief closing note.
An older advertisement promotes DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills claiming widespread kidney and bladder trouble and promising quick relief. The copy urges readers to request a free trial box from DeWitt Co in Chicago and notes availability at local druggists.
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