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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1911
Page
1
City directory note records that Marshall council holds meetings on the first night of each month with members including John Buckingham N J Gesman Reis A C Kuyper G W Kimmell Jacob Plender J S Wilson and A Waechter in attendance.
The item notes talk of possible free mail delivery in Pella, strong late potato crops, a voter tax debate over a county home versus a high school, local humor about a cartoon, calls for new factories, ideas for a washing machine plant, and Keokuk’s dam project drawing attention that urges local Red Cross energy.
Citizens urged to improve the town by supporting new industries and expanding the Pella Canning Company under A Verploeg. The letter calls for local business leaders to back upgrades, widen the plant, and attract investors like Warfield Howell Pratt Co to sustain year round operation and raise property values.
The piece notes the 1910 start of girls tomato clubs in Aiken South Carolina led by Miss Marie Lannelle Cromer. Prizes reward yield net gain display at fairs and best garden history. Kate Gunter earned 140 dollars profit. Jerry Moore earned 130 dollars from a full acre of corn. The movement teaches drainage soil pests spraying crop rotation and self sufficiency on the farm and inspires life work and education for girls to stay on farming.
The piece warns that combining dug and drilled wells can pose serious health dangers. It notes the hidden cost savings on drilling and cautions that such wells may breed malaria or typhoid due to contaminated deeper water, despite claimed purity.
The warning notes that deep wells can be dangerous as early contamination may occur from rain seepage into open wells and into drilled casings. Remedies include raising the casing to ground surface or above the highest water level or cementing the open well to create a water tight system, per U S Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 223.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. pledges one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized December 6, 1886 by A. W. Gleason. Company advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally and promises testimonials free. Sold by all druggists for 75 cents and claims Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Wanted at once men to represent us either locally or traveling. Immediate start with territory. Apply at once to Allen Nursery Co Rochester N Y 5850 for money in the work for the right men.
Advertising copy seeking agents for the New Standard 1910 Census Atlas of the World and related juvenile and holiday books. Promises weekly earnings of 40 to 60 dollars, 50 percent commission, postpaid combination outfit at 20 cents, with free fall particulars from publisher A B Kuhlman at 136 West Lake Street, Chicago Illinois.
Geo Heeren advertises window glass in all sizes and offers to install at his own risk. Heeren also provides wool work of all kinds. Contact 41 45.
Notice filed in the Marion County District Court of Iowa that Cornelis Synhorst’s will is on record and will be heard in the December 1911 term beginning December 4 at Knoxville. Also an additional farm listing: 220 acres 8 miles from Oskaloosa 14 miles from Leighton, soil quality good. contact C. M. Coryell Olivet Iowa.
In the moonlit snow Howland begs Meleese to marry him at Le Pas but she reveals a dark secret. She urges him onward then aids an ambush that binds him and leaves him bound and gagged. Meleese returns, kneeling at his side with a look of great love despite the betrayal.
Howland endures a frozen betrayal as Meleese kisses him goodbye and Croisset schemes a deadly fall. Bound and gagged, Howland overhears a plot to push him from a hidden ledge into a chasm, while dogs and sleighs bear the conspirators away through the polar night. Meleese’s gesture haunts him as Croisset taunts and reveals deeper treachery amid the Arctic wilderness.
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