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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1906
Page
4
Relief for weak overworked women and a cure for indigestion biliousness and catarrhal ailments. Dr Pierce’s open formula emphasizes glyceric extracts from native plants with no alcohol or habit forming drugs. Consultation available at Buffalo N Y. Pleasant Pellets offer gentle constipation relief.
GOING WEST timetable lists No 1 Passenger 6 20 AM No 3 Passenger 7 30 PM No 95 Time freight 11 45 AM No 71 Local freight 12 20 PM GOING EAST No 2 Passenger 8 10 AM No 4 Passenger 9 35 PM No 70 Local freight 8 50 AM No 96 Time freight 1 15 PM Local freight trains will carry passengers. For any other information address C S Crane G P T A St Louis F C Memillan D P F A Des Moines.
A fragmented OCR line lists train designations including No 205 passenger No 201 passenger No 203 passenger No 275 accommodation and No 273 accommodation with references to service classes and routes. The readable portion suggests a timetable or service listing without complete context or dates.
A dialogic lampoon discusses battlefield code and misdirection, followed by a note on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Samoa grave site. The piece recounts Samoan bearers carrying Stevenson to Vailima’s summit and lists inscriptions beside his tombstone, then shifts to buffalo measurements quoted from Audubon and Hornaday via Seton in Scribner's.
Report describes Flensburg harbor fishery practice where live fish are placed in drilled boxes and towed underwater to keep them alive until sale on the quay. Also notes air tight buoyant deck chairs on some British steamers for emergency flotation. Includes a comic exchange from London Mall.
Chesterfield warns that judging others reveals inner traits since people share similar operations though passions differ. Knox notes Graphter’s acquaintances are shrewd, while Jenke asks if he was told so. Knox says Graphter implied it and recently claimed he owes no one a dollar in the Philadelphie exchange.
A fragmentary note reads like a casual utterance about marriage and a request to call or see someone. The text is incomplete, with missing names and clear context. It appears to be a personal aside rather than a formal notice or event.
Dr. K M Wiegand argues in the American Naturalist that sap flow from maple trees in early spring is not caused by gas, water, or wood expansion. Instead the pressure driving sap flow results from temperature altering the osmotic permeability of pith ray cells, with flow rising when temperatures cross the freezing point.
The excerpt recalls a tin foil recording device with a cornet solo and a butterfly regulator, notes an eighteenth century Paris machine typewriter with ivory keys by Leroy, Versailles, and Louis XIV. It also humorously surveys widows, then describes a flexible, rubbery stone described as columite or flexible sandstone found in several states and capable of bending without breaking.
A London News quip recalls Captain Spencer from a church army asking a convict about life after prison. The reply lists spring pea picking, summer fruit picking, autumn hop picking, winter pocket picking, and finally oakum picking, illustrating clever evasions around reform and labor.
When young Herbert Spencer became homesick his father sent him to school. With 2 shillings, he walked over 120 miles back home in three days, covering 48 miles the first day and 47 miles the second. A friendly coach driver carried him the rest for free on the third day.
An editor of a western exchange lately fretted about fitting his shirt over wings upon reaching paradise. A jealous contemporary quipped the hat would need to fit over horns. Gayman Herald, Kan.
A conversational scene expresses joy as Dinah learns her late brother left her 1000 dollars in California. The household servant Washlady reacts with slang and enthusiasm, noting practical needs like a planner a photograph and a frame, all buoyed by the windfall.
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