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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1911
Page
1
An 19th century style advertisement extols patriotism linked to digestion. It claims dyspepsia makes one treasonous and weak, urges use of Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery to strengthen health and citizenship, warns against substitutes, and states how to obtain Dr. Pierces Common Sense Medical Adviser by mail order from World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, NY.
German stebarian A. C. Kuyper Marshall John Buckingham COAWCCES dent G. W. Kimmell Assessor Treasurea COUNCILMEN Jacob Plender John Faassen J S Wilson B H Sack Waechter K Vanisseldorp Council meets first and third Tuesday might of each month.
The paper notes a mix of local tones urging civic effort and tempering urban pride. It mentions a looming diphtheria epidemic in Davenport with nearly 100 quarantined homes and a comment on auto speeds on country roads. Sheriff Ike Reed of Mahaska County purchases bloodhounds for crime tracking.
A note asks citizens to locate a misplaced Indian summer article and return it at once to Pella. The piece suggests the word graft traces to Dutch grants in early New York and implies such grants arose from favors or obligations.
Des Moines spent 8000 dollars to secure conventions and hosted 102 of them, while attendees reportedly spent 1.8 million dollars in the city. One week remains until Thanksgiving as the school board declares Thursday and Friday vacation to help children recover from Thanksgiving indigestion before returning to school.
The secretary of the treasury recently bought 100000 ounces of silver at just over 56 cents an ounce. He plans to turn it over to innocent people at 1.29 per ounce, earning a profit of about 49 cents per ounce. The report asks why Wickersham has not sued this mining trust. Booker T. Washington spoke at the Iowa State Teachers convention in Des Moines, urging the social life offered by churches and schools in the north for negro funds in the south.
In his address to the Commercial club, Mr. Young contrasts California orange shipments with Iowa hogs, notes New York garbage strike losses, and argues the city fails to provide adequate high school facilities. He urges the school board to move beyond doubt and fund a proper new high school building to relieve crowding and improve education.
A strong call asserts the value of establishing a modern high school beyond mere dollars. It argues education is priceless and demands immediate action, not five years from now, to provide proper means for youth.
Iowa moves to sell Red Cross Christmas seals with 12.5 percent to state and 87.5 percent kept locally for tuberculosis relief. A. E. Kepford leads as State Lecturer. orders already exceed 500,000 with 1,000,000 planned. Local clubs and small towns join nationwide effort to educate and fund campaigns.
A letter references a post office scene showing a town abandoned and decaying as proof that mail-order business harms communities. The author urges seriousness toward the issue, naming Sears Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery as contexts for the debate.
A local letter argues Ward, Larkin, Crofts and Reed undermine towns by promoting mail order with cheaper goods and delayed service. It urges buying at home supports property values, enables substitutions, avoids incomplete orders, and preserves local retailers like Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck in fair pricing.
Protect your town by buying locally and supporting home merchants and trades. A thriving town boosts property values, creates jobs, and strengthens the farmer by offering a better market and trading point. Unquestionably in union there is strength. let us protect our town.
Iowa produced 4,500,000 bushels of apples this year according to state horticulturist Wesley Geene. He estimates consumption at about one bushel per person, totaling 2,225,000 bushels, leaving 2,275,000 bushels to be disposed of in foreign markets.
820 acre farm for sale with fine improvements including a 70 by 80 barn with basement, nine room house with cellar and porches, deep water system, and house barn piping. 2 miles from town, price 125 dollars per acre. Terms: eight-year low-rate interest option. Address F. E. Colville 416 N 3d St Oskaloosa Iowa. 446 67. Also canvassing agents wanted for Compendium of Everyday Wants and The Devil's Bride. 6 percent commission. Publisher A B Kuhlman 186 West Lake St Chicago III.
Warted at once men to represent us either locally or traveling. Now is the time to start. Money in the work for the right men. Apply at once and secure territory. Allen Nursery Co. Rochester NY.
Engineer Jack Howland roams Hudson Bay seeking amulets and answers while pursued by Croisset and a looming danger. Meleese, a mute who speaks, leads him toward peril then away as trust fractures. A tense confrontation ends with a gun drawn and a vow of violence.
Howland confronts Croisset as the Mackenzie hounds close the trap. An impending gunfight looms with a hidden escape plan as Croisset leads Howland toward a risky chase through dense brush and a distant post.
Howland and Croisset push through snow, tracking Meleese’s location. A snowbound ridge reveals a cabin and a stern standoff as Howland confronts Croisset about Meleese, with the stake of information and dire threats shaping their dangerous ride toward the stair to the room.
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