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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
6
The clipping notes Billy Sunday drawing a large crowd in Marshalltown with streets thronged by thousands throughout the day as religious meetings filled the town. It says the city was busy from dawn to night with people attending services and the business district bustling like a circus day.
Readers distant from Washington gain a sense of the tariff bill’s progress as commentators describe public events and hearings. The note outlines how citizens monitor national legislation without traveling to the capital.
The Commoner compares tariff tactics to fish at a hatchery, noting how protected interests swarm the moment food is thrown and retreat only after all is consumed, implying broad lobbying frenzy around the tariff bill.
The Journal reports the severe tragedy at M Shivvers farm Franklin township Chester Marsh was dragged under a disc harrow found unconscious and died minutes later. He suffered a severed arm gruesome abdominal wound and facial injuries from the grinding knives and clods. The exact cause remains uncertain with theories of fainting or a kick of the horses after a tongue break. He was last seen at 10 45 am and died about 11 40 am. Funeral held at Lincoln home with Rev Pace officiating.
Des Moines reports a broad Iowa awakening in tuberculosis prevention and treatment. Citizens push anti spitting ordinances, milk safety measures, and sanitary reforms in schools and rail cars while Davenport and Scott County lead with elabo rate hospital plans and a public retreat for care of the tuberculous population.
For sale 160 acre farm priced at 4000 dollars. Includes house 28 by 32, log barn 70 by 16, grooved lumber roof, good cave and sod coalhouse, chicken house, smoke house, hog house and fencing. 80 cultivated with 46 to 50 more to break for flax. Eight miles from creamery and a proposed station on the new extension of the Northern Pacific Railroad. For particulars write Aleta D. Mott Noel North Dakota. 1922 Deering Standard twine nine cents per pound at P Bruinekool & Son 1920.
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