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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1917
Page
6
A columnist riffs on pay, character, and race stereotypes while debating American vs Russian pay, draft policies, and wartime governance. Cites Camp Dodge morale, Iowa lawmakers, and Lord Northcliffe as global war commentary, noting mixed impressions from Belgium front reports.
The piece argues that democracy justifies war and condemns imperial aims, noting Germans’ return to booty as meaningless. It questions Colonel House’s qualifications for a key mission, suggesting he may compare with Roosevelt-era appointees and criticizing noisy officials.
An advertiser argues that strong ads drive purchases, citing a rice price card and a Chronicle note. The piece then reports Iowa counties’ shortfalls in Liberty Loan quotas with many failures in southern counties, attributing them to limited effort and lack of attention despite state overage overall and heroic banker-led local efforts.
A city and township canvass drew about a hundred attendees but left only half the required apportionment subscribed. A Knoxville banker advised and scorched the crowd, yet the Pella committee later oversubscribed by fifteen percent. The piece argues for universal payment based on means to avoid future bond failures.
Government begins selling War Savings Certificates at 4.12 dollars each before February 1, 1918 to redeem at six dollars after five years with four percent interest compounded quarterly. Thrift stamps at 25 cents open the path to savings certificates, allowing gradual payments and flexible redemption to support war financing.
A reflective meditation on Thanksgiving amid World War I, urging gratitude for American strength, unity, and liberty. It contrasts civilian abundance with Belgian and French suffering, cites President Wilson, and emphasizes moral resolve, humility, and faith in God while supporting the nation’s war effort.
A Pella carpenter, L A Beerends, recounts his cold leading to backache and weak kidney action. He used Doan's Kidney Pills after purchasing at Puritan Drug Co. The remedy allegedly restored kidney function, priced 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. backs the product.
A patriotic exhortation urges universal support for the second Liberty Loan installment. It frames the loan as a duty and privilege necessary to end the war and secure lasting peace, prosperity, and security for current and future generations.
In a camp at Van Cortlandt Park soldiers prefer noting time by foot tapping rather than checking wrist watches. A facetious colonel comments that the old man remains unsure about wrist watches, hoping rookies will keep time with their feet.
An American Boy poem laments cheating for glory. The speaker rejects deceit to gain prizes, preferring defeat with integrity to surpassing others by base means. He values self respect, disdain for covert tricks, and the lasting shame of dishonor over hollow victory.
Promote teething comfort and bowel regulation with Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Marketed for feverishness, bad stomach, teething disorders and worm prevention, used by mothers for 30 years. Available at all druggists 25c. Sample free. Address Mother Gray Co LeRoy NY.
A string of small anecdotes from a fall to spring cycle including Pat buying a pig for 7.56, feeding 10.50, and selling for 17.50 with the pig’s winter use noted. A geography lesson tires the class traveling from London to Labrador to Timbuctoo. Tommy Jones misdefines a Kaiser as a spring of hot water. A bashful admirer asks about a dog and a kiss. A husband explains late nights by citing courting habits.
The jaboncello or soap berry tree grows in western Heundor’s humid zones. It reaches about fifty feet, with wide branches and abundant cherry-sized fruit. The nearly translucent skin and pulp around the seeds are so supline that many Ecuadorians use it as soap, valued at more than fifty times its weight in traditional material.
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