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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1923
Page
16
Farmers are urged to shelter and properly prepare implements for winter. Clean and oil all moving parts, grease hubs, protect polished surfaces, and paint with linseed oil paint to prevent rust. Note worn parts for replacements, store binder canvases, and keep all parts clean and ready for spring use.
University farm expert Francis Jager urges bee colonies to receive ten pounds of pure sugar sirup after breeding ends. Light colonies should be fed more as winter diets favor sirup. honey pollen can cause intestinal issues and higher mortality.
Charles of Davenport Indiana died of apoplexy at a friend's home while playing poker. After discarding two cards he picked up a jack and ten of spades forming a royal flush and collapsed as he reached for the chips. The incident centers on a home poker game.
Washington bureau notes how Britain and Russia clash over Murman coast fishing rights. The region is Arctic by latitude but warmed by the Gulf Stream, making it a year round open-water area rich in cod, herring and salmon. History covers railroad push from Petrograd to Murmansk, wartime Allied contingents, and sparse reindeer life with persistent mosquitoes in summer.
In Charlottesville area, C. E. Black reports a dry land terrapin found on his farm two miles south of Crozet on the Miller school road. The reptile bears two fully formed heads on separate necks that meet at the shell edge and both heads can bite. It cannot retract both heads but can draw up a leg when alarmed.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution begins construction of a 60 foot motor lifeboat with a cabin for Mersey station. It will have two engines and a range beyond 100 miles, as part of a fleet totaling 238 vessels with 88 motorboats.
In Milan a woman named Maria Battegini, aged 56, revived as pallbearers lowered the coffin lid. Priests fled, relatives panicked, doctors were summoned, and she began recovering. The incident followed a day of supposed death and prompted renewed medical checks.
New York City and Chicago fraudster Jack Strosnider known as Big Jack dies in Salem Ohio on December 31 from a cerebral hemorrhage after a lifetime of swindles that ranged from fake prize fights to wire tapping. He fleeced victims of millions, served prison time, and remained largely unknown to his closest friends.
Secretary Denby announced to the House Naval Affairs Committee that California congressman McLafferty offers 5 340 acres at Alameda as a site for a naval base. The committee will review the offer but no certainty the matter will be settled this session.
George Dollar aged sixteen dies at his grandfather’s farm near Anderson. The report recalls seven years earlier in Macy when Dollar, driven by his wife’s death, killed three family members and mortally wounded his seven year old son George Jr before shooting himself at his wife’s grave. One bullet had rested in his skull since then and later caused fatal brain injury.
Shanghai reports the American Bible Society says it sold more than two billion Bibles in China in 1922, the highest total ever, marking a record year for the organization in the region.
RUPTURE FE. J. Meinhardt from Chicago will attend the Downing Hotel in Oskaloosa Iowa on Friday June 1 for demonstrations of The Vacuum Shield truss. He promises immediate relief and rapid closure of ruptures with no surgery, injections, or prescriptions.
Obituary from the Washington Star notes Hannah Bassett Sperry widow of Andrew F. Sperry longtime Marion County resident. She born in Ashtabula Ohio died suddenly at 1137 Northwest Street after a stroke. Funeral at Church of the New Jerusalem with burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Survived by sister Elizabeth Platt of Pella Iowa and two sons Arthur B. Sperry of Pittsburgh and Rev Paul Sperry of Washington.
Seven Cen tral graduates are listed as this year’s Western Theological Seminary entrants. The report notes that most of the current class plan to return next year, with five of this year’s graduates expected to study there again. Three of the recent graduates have already gone to the foreign field.
Summer plans include study in medicine and mission field work. Three members of the current class will pursue medicine with mission aims. Six alumni have graduated from the Theologic schools and entered active ministry in the past five years. The summary notes New Central continuing Old Central’s tradition of one quarter of graduates entering church work locally or abroad.
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