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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1910
Page
2
The item lists editor C L Garrett and business manager H H Sadler with pricing terms Cor Year and Six Months set at 1 80 and 78 cents respectively. It notes post office entry in Pella Iowa and Marion County with a reflective line on energy and action.
The piece compares rapid movement by horse, ship, train, and earth to a day’s orbit and a minute’s light travel, noting trotting, ocean greyhounds, and express trains. It concludes a minute is substantial, highlighting vast cosmic speeds versus everyday travel.
A persuasive editorial urges citizens to visit local schools, support teachers, and engage with the school head. It cautions against constant fault finding and emphasizes informed viewing of school conditions, hoping readers will act by visiting and showing interest in the great work of education.
The text argues that a selfish man finds it hard to credit unselfish acts by others and criticizes large employers who donate small parts of vast profits to charity. It suggests increasing employee pay would improve conditions for everyone.
In some countries force is used to compel belief or disbelief but the world is learning that the mind cannot be confined by iron fetters or prison walls.
The undue extent of athletics has caused prejudice, yet sports and games, when judiciously indulged, bless both body and mind. They build physical development and mental and moral power, fostering perseverance, patience, self-control, and loyalty to aid character formation.
The article notes autumn leaves piling up and suggests that if a father directs half his energy from football to raking and burning the leaves, it would take about twenty four hours to noticeably improve the appearance of lawns around town. It frames the task as a communal improvement driven by a common activity.
A quoted speaker urges individual critics to withdraw and let developers and investors work. The note warns that a single pessimistic kicker can deter business more than droughts pests and disasters combined.
An editor shows St Peter a list of unpaid subscribers and jokes about readers sneaking past the pearly gates. St Peter says no delinquents remain inside but notes a man who took the paper a year without paying and had it marked refused by the postmaster. He will be pursued and punished.
The country newspaper, more than city papers, guides public opinion on many issues. It asserts its views are governed by principle, not selfish gain, unlike city papers driven by wealth. This unfettered stance gives genuine value to moral and political expressions.
A snippet discusses how the phrase in eight minutes or a minute sounds unusual as speech evolves. It notes brevity effects on emphasis and how quick time references color conversational tempo in everyday usage. The piece highlights informal speech patterns and the felt pace of language.
A humorous verse celebrates fathers as the unsung builders of homes. It contrasts father and mother roles, praising a dad who rises early, tends chores, buys provisions, protects the home, and endures blame for mischief, while noting the humor of a mother’s quieter chores. The speaker toasts dads, acknowledging faults but affectionately missing him when he’s gone.
State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County oath by senior partner Frank J Cheney of F J Cheney & Co promising one hundred dollars for each untreatable catarrh. Affidavit sworn December 6 1886. Cure taken internally claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces. testimonials offered. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation advertised.
A fragmentary speech roars about injustice of being deprived of voting and calls for protest with the strength of women God against male political oppression. The text shows garbled phrases and stray quotes reflecting suffrage era fervor and editorial decay.
Observations attributed to Prince Bismarck on female suffrage describe women as capable of eliciting secrets from men and dampening public discourse. The London Chronicle notes historic church practices in England separating sexes during services and ordering elder men before younger ones, with married men prior to young husbands.
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