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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1911
Page
11
An advertisement promises a free, no obligation remedy for goitre. It asserts numerous cures once deemed incurable and urges readers to write for details, claiming a potential complete cure and free information without risk.
The Port Arthur harbor scene is described as a sailing through a picture frame with rocky bluffs narrowly admitting a ship. Inside, a sheltered basin opens to two towns: the eastern old town with Russian and Japanese quarters, and the western new town with modern European and American residences, government buildings, a hospital, park, and a hotel.
New York areas describes the carrier snail, a tropical marine mollusk that attaches castoff objects to its shell. It gathers shells, pebbles, coral bits, and even glass, glazing its back until movement becomes impossible, while predators fail to distinguish it from the sea floor.
Scientific American notes odd patent precedents where ideas mirrored ancient artifacts. A congressman mistook a rural lock design for one from Thebes and claimed it was stolen from his constituent. Another filing paralleled Mosaic ark descriptions, highlighting recurring overlaps between invention and scripture.
A compact reflection by J Vila Blake urging readers to seek brightness in hardship. It argues that focus shapes experience and warns that negative framing worsens distress, encouraging a hopeful attitude and mindful perception.
A New York sale featured a Caxton bound in real beech boards, a rare early binding highlight. A bibliophile explained that books from the inception of printing used buche beech boards half an inch thick, often leather bound and studded with brass and gems.
A Turkish youth formed a mixed Greek Armenian football team. Police seized him, interrogated, and treated the club as a possible secret society. An infernal machine ball and strange sweaters spurred a long inquiry ending with a cautious ruling to avoid a recurrence.
A Brander Matthews essay surveys projected works never published or completed. It notes Moliere’s alleged L Homme de Cour, Sheridan’s Affectation, Hugo’s La Quinquengrogne, Daudet La Pentameron, and Dumas’s La Route de Thebes as unrealized projects from famous writers.
An old farmer recalls childhood roasts of eggs and meat on a wood stove or open fireplace. He recalls barns searched for hens nests and the wrapping of fresh eggs in heavy paper, dampened for roasting, with several details described.
The passage recounts a boyhood trick from New York Press about roasting eggs on hot coals wrapped in wet paper. Eggs were placed on live coals, partially covered, and ready in five to fifteen minutes. A pin hole at the big end let steam escape to keep the shell intact and prevent leakage.
A compilation traces dynamite from Sobrero’s Paris lab discovery in 1847 through Nobel’s 1866 naming, its early perilous use in America and Colon, to its properties and safe handling. The piece shifts to poems and art notes, including a Waterloo era painting in Brussels and a vivid primitive view of bullfrogs, with brief travel notes.
The article discusses Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Crossing the Bar as a sublime death song and sacred belief, noting how it arose while crossing the Solent with his son Hallam on an October afternoon, reflecting on mortality and the hereafter.
A personal missive dated SAMBO expresses admiration for Miss E and seeks to establish correspondence about love. The tone is formal and ceremonial, pledging appreciation and awaiting a prompt reply.
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