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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
4
A local dealer advertises top grade window glass praised for crystal clarity free of waves and bubbles. Available in single or double thickness, standard sizes, or cut to fit special measurements, with putty and points provided.
Des Moines visitors include Gladstone and Union Life agents W P Sandusky and Art Sandusky on business. Local residents travel to Okoboji for a week of pleasure. New potatoes retail at four and a half cents per pound. A 75 horsepower boiler for the new plant was unloaded and moved to its foundation. Dr Ada M Fenech plans a rest trip to Keokuk. P Bousquet ill but improving at home. Mrs B H Wormhoudt visits Ottumwa. Donaldson rents S H Viersen house. to move in next month. Mrs W B Springer from Maple City, Kansas visits relatives F G and Belle Warner. Vegetables plentiful, farmers and stores selling well. early rain needed to keep yields. Miss Haatwe de Haan-Cullen, formerly Pella, now runs a typesetting machine on Ottumwa paper. Lawrence Wood notes Pater Naiwers, former Pella resident, is a window trimmer in Ottumwa. Dallas Township board proceedings cite road funds as of Jan 7 1905 and balances from November 1 1905 to January 20 1906.
Disbursements listed for snow removal and road work include payments to George Bonebrake John Hach J H Stilwell and J Senferer for work on roads. Also to Toi Veron and 2 township trustees fees with a township tax refund of 799. Clerk fees and other small charges are noted.
A theatergoer recalls a mysterious gaze from a young woman in a New York box. After letters fail to clarify, a faceoff across social circles reveals a past connection and a mistaken memory, ending with a playful reunion and confirmation of identity.
An all night session in the Australian parliament featured loud snoring as members failed to maintain quorum. Postmaster general struggled to stay awake while Joseph Cook lambasted the “dumb, dead silence.” One member questioned the legality of snoring loudly enough to drown out debate.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt portrays female chainmakers enduring twelve hour days at the forge with a breastfed child nearby. They earn five to B shillings weekly, live from hand to mouth, and their families scrape by on bread soaked in hot water and weak tea while bellows blowers, including children and the elderly, turn wheels for threepence per day.
A Paris street scene shows a coachman removing his coat to place it before a slipping horse that falls but is unharmed. He bows with mock chivalry and addresses the horse as madame, asking for the honor as he helps her to rise. The relieved crowd cheers the duo as they continue away.
During battle practice aboard a cruiser, a gun failed to fire. The crew waited thirty minutes then Lord Beresford ordered the breech secured and another hour elapsed. When finally opened, it was found no ammunition had been loaded.
A British island named Fanning Island is offered at auction by the registrar of the British high commissioner's court in Fiji. The 150‑inhabitant atoll, seized in 1888 as a potential submarine cable link between the area and Australia, is to be sold with the buyer paying in mother of pearl coral and guano.
Honolulu bankers saved a considerable sum by an unusual tactic. They shipped 700000 in gold coin by registered mail from Honolulu to San Francisco so the money would be at sea and beyond territorial jurisdiction on December 31 when a per cent tax is levied on all money in banks. The money will be returned immediately, and after shipment charges deducted the savings amount to nearly 7000.
Report notes a spring on a Georgia mountain where water reportedly runs uphill for nearly half a mile. The account mentions the surprising flow and local fascination with the phenomenon, though details are unclear and may be folkloric.
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