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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
2
The poem discusses whether to move or stay to save rent, praising the comfort and stability of a longtime home while warning that new landlords can be harsh. It humorously suggests hiring a strong man to break furniture as a cheaper, if extreme, way to seek excitement and avoid high relocation costs.
The Institute for Disabled Lawn Mowers offers sharpening services. An ideal mower sharpener polishes cutting edges to restore ease of use and cutting efficiency. The service promises a sharper mower than when new and improved performance.
An advertisement invites customers to buy coal at the Dieleman Coal Mine located 1 to 2 miles west of Pella, promoting Verhey’s Blacksmith Shop as the supplier.
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce issued a brief fact statement debunking exaggerated reports about quake effects on Los Angeles. It notes San Francisco quake damage, excluding loss of life, was under five percent of total fire and quake damage, LA is 500 miles from SF, and since 1771 the city has seen no earthquake life or property losses. Geology asserts LA’s rock formation makes it highly safe from earthquakes, and California’s historical quake deaths are far below losses from major cyclones or tornadoes.
K. Shivvers a leading Republican in Marion county conducted business in Pella Tuesday afternoon.
A Manchester New Hampshire farmer visits lawyer Henry E. Burnham with butter to spare for a telephone in Burnham’s office. After asking Burnham’s wife about butter, the farmer realizes the wife is not in a box and reacts with surprising wit about the novelty of telephones.
The Cox's Great Consolidated C I R I P Band gave its first concert in the Garden square last Friday evening and the music was well received. The band plans to circulate a subscription paper soon to raise funds for summer park concerts.
Nellie T Flint leads Kenton St Cecelia Society in a two part program at Central School. The first part offered miscellaneous songs by local vocalists followed by the cantata Mayday composed by Macfarren. Flint as soprano received high praise for her teaching and conducting work with the Kenton public schools. Katherine Weaver accompanied the singers and cantata pianist with noted skill.
The O R I & P railway offers a low rate school excursion to Ames on May 26 with a one hour Des Moines stop for visiting the state capitol. Depart Pella 7 03 am arrive Ames 11 05 am return at 6 00 pm. Round trip fare is 1 75. Washington band may accompany.
A fragmentary note mentions upcoming musical events and hires at an unspecified venue. It references April and next engagements with unclear names and details. The readable portion lacks concrete entities or dates to anchor a fuller report.
A Paris physician advocates the sleep cure by claiming people live a fixed length of time and that duration varies with temperament. He cites black longevity and argues rest boosts life by sleeping up to sixteen hours daily. Treatment orders patients to bed, eight hours awake, and sixteen hours asleep with true slumber.
A Washington impostor, posing as a friend of Confederate General Pickett, meets a Smithsonian official and then Mrs. Pickett. She bluntly remarks he is no pig from Guinea, calling him a guinea pig, in a witty retort from the Saturday Evening Post.
Henry Labouchere describes his 1866 election victory in Britain. He recalls kissing babies and praising Liberalism to fathers while strategizing around a half dozen pivotal votes. One Tory was fished out in a punt to avoid voting and another was kept inside by cabs until polling closed.
A brilliant English woman, Miss Hughes, becomes secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society. For over ten years she has served as assistant secretary and librarian, succeeding Professor Rhys Davids who left to chair comparative religions at Victoria University, Manchester.
Dr William Osler's mother recently reached her hundredth year at her Ontario home. The Osler family origins trace to Bondhead where Rev Mr Osler and his wife settled. Four sons rose to prominence in Canada with Dr Osler a leader in medicine at Oxford. Other notable sons include E B Osler MP and Justice Featherstone Osler. The late B Osler was a leading member of the Canadian bar.
A visitor in Thomas A. Edison's lab spotted a strange cradle model with a telephone attachment. Edison explained gravely that it is a motor run by sound, attaching it to a cradle so the cradle rocks faster as the baby cries louder.
An item describes how a worm enters chestnuts through an egg laid before the shell forms, the larva feeding inside. The note mentions Miss Jennie Toom of Rosneau visiting Miss Mary Toom of Howell station, and Will Fowler resuming school work at Mt. Pleasant via Howell station.
The shop explains that it makes its own ice cream using rich cream sugar and pure fruit flavors with no substitutes. It costs more but offers velvety smoothness and utmost richness. Available by the dish pint quart or gallon at the fountain.
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