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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1909
Page
1
The column critiques self centered living and urges doing good for others as source of happiness. It compares truthfulness patterns to Halley’s Comet and notes delays in subscribers paying dues. It warns against waiting for success and highlights parental overexertion of children and modern life’s pace. A sociologist’s view on life’s rush is questioned.
A civic exhortation argues that labor in youth guards future leisure, urges active citizenship, and praises country newspapers for promoting virtue. It stresses loyalty to one’s town, usefulness over words, and the high moral tone of the rural press compared to urban dailies.
The Iowa Supreme Court holds that a general liquor sale consent petition must show sixty five percent of county voters names at filing, no post filing additions, witnessed marks, and date following each signature. Previously affidavits with timing of signatures were common. Tariff reformers mock Western railroads for California fruit growers tariff request.
An old advertisement argues back pain signals kidney and bladder disease and urges cure by addressing the cause. It lists symptoms like lassitude nervousness sleep loss and urinary issues. DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills are promoted as a remedy with claims of direct action and healing, with free trial offers from DeWitt & Co of Chicago.
Senator Flint criticizes railroad pass through tariff increases that boost costs for citrus fruit and coal, arguing protection harms the industry. He warns that tariff benefits favor railroads and questions the logic of maintaining tariffs that raise prices for domestic use while aiding rail companies. The Commoner notes growing exposure of tariff inequities.
F. M. Parker in Register and Leader notes Billy Sunday’s Cedar Rapids talk on The Home. He praises parents, mocks sin, defends teachers, and jokes about school salaries while praising Sunday’s forceful, humorous style. Also advertises Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup for colds.
A poignant poem laments the loss of a loved one whose absence leaves a homeache full of waiting hearts. The speaker imagines the grave distance between dawn and twilight and hopes the missing one may return to the inglenook chair, book, roses, and perfumed air that still await. The verse promises faith, patience, and a call to come back to hearth and hearts.
Rebecca Mixgrammar records daily vignettes on passerby scenes. A grocer boy hustles a high wagon, a bony horse bears packages, a nurse guides a four year old, hats shimmer at a shop, and a mayor rides by with a beet red nose.
Ivah argues that rubbing cucumber juice on freckles and counting to four is not true beauty and claims curved thinking will create curves. The piece rebels, noting ten lady baseball teams rely on curved thought yet profit remains elusive, suggesting women on teams do not become pretty.
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