Official Directory Warns Against Idlers and Politicized Suffrage
The piece argues that Pella residents who opposed woman suffrage last spring now back Meredith for governor due to prohibition, while liquor interests united against suffrage. It criticizes idleness, urges youth to work, and analyzes Iowa politics with Harding’s Republican stance amid a fluid primary system. It also condemns unfair taxation on idle land and calls for taxing land value increases tied to community activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Fair Grounds
Fair Ground
Gotch backs Harding for governor in letter to Register and Leader
Frank Gotch the wrestler writes to the Register and Leader in support of Republican candidate Harding. He rebuts attacks on Harding, explains liberal voters and liquor interests, and asserts liberals want a square deal. He frames breweries and wets as aligned with liberal labels, challenging the paper’s views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Gotch
The
Register
Harding
Des Moines
Gotch
Lberal
Square dealing and liquor laws in Iowa towns
The piece argues saloonkeepers corrupt local governance, claim drunkards and minors exploit lax laws, cites historical temperance conflicts in Pella, Sioux City, and Muscatine, and portrays liquor dealers as self-serving and opposed to honest community interests. It frames “square deal” as a hypocritical label used to disguise self-interest.
Is This Your Experience Kidney illness ad text
IS THIS YOUR EXPERIENCE Many Pella People Are Afflicted With Annoying Kidney Ills. Are you bothered with too frequent action of the kidneys These are all signs of kidney sickness and should not be neglected. Mrs C Rus 306 B Third Ave Pella says My kidneys were out of order and I had severe pains across the small of my back I could hardly keep going and the kidney action was irregular I read of Doans Kidney Pills and bought them at Keables Drug Store They relieved the backache and put my kidneys in good order. Price 50c at all dealers. Dont simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doans Kidney Pills the same that Mrs Rus had Foster Milburn Co Props Buffalo NY
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Pella
Dean
Doan
Keable’s
Typewriter Ribbons and Carbon Paper Chronicle Office
The Chronicle Office notes the enduring role of typewriter ribbons and carbon paper in clerical work. While modern tools evolve, the humble supplies still support daily reporting tasks and archival copying needs in traditional newsroom routines.
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Chronicle
Leap Year Romance Ends In Quick Knot
A bachelor named William finds courage at last when a leap year enables him to propose to a church garden beauty. They wed within a week at four o clock beneath a Ten Weeks' Stock as pinks and Jack-in-the-Pulpit bridesmaids greet the couple. Ambrosia and nectar are served as they begin a happy ever after.
How Catarrh Is Contracted
Mother are sometimes so thought less as to neglect the colds which their children contract. The inflammation of the muscus membrane, at first acute, becomes chronic and the child has chronic catarrh, a disease that is seldom cured and that may prove a life's burden. Many persons who have this loathsome disease will remember having had frequent colds at the time it was contracted. A little forethought, a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy judiciously used, and all this trouble might have been avoided, for sale by F. D. Stubenrauch.
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Chamberlain
F. D. Stubenrauch
Evangelist Sunday Opens Six Week Detroit Meeting
Evangelist Bill Sunday began a six weeks meeting in Detroit on September 9 at a tabernacle seating 15,000. Three choirs of 2,400 each will lead the music, contributing to the large revival program.
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Bill Sunday
Detroit
Tabernacle
Anurie advertised cures for kidney troubles in letters
Dear editor I write of Anurie and kidney pain. Mrs Keller says one box of Dr Pierce Anuric Tablets ended back pain and enabled work. The ad promotes Anuric from Dr Pierce Buffalo NY and touts Golden Medical Discovery as a blood cleanser and liver stimulant.
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Dr. Pierce
Casey Fair to Harding a Fairness Call in Straw Vote
A Hastings to Des Moines Dispatch complains of an unfair straw poll results. It notes 38 voters yielded 35 for Meredith, 3 for Harding, with 8 others uncounted from pool hall and livery stable card players. The piece urges equal inclusion of all groups to give Harding a fair showing.
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Hastings
Des Moines Register
Meredith
Harding
Knoxville Express
Improve Complexion With Chamberlain Tablets Diet Plan
An advertisement urges taking Chamberlain's Tablets and a diet of vegetables and cereals with daily outdoor exercise. It promises a greatly improved complexion within months and notes availability for sale by F. D. Stubenrauch.
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Chamberlain
F. D. Stubenrauch
First Aid On Hood Canal Pioneer Doctor Missionary Captains
Pioneer wives clearing forest land along Hood Canal endure many ills. An inch long splinter in the hand is minor until infection threatens with no nearby physician eighteen miles away. A cyclist with peroxide cotton and a knife becomes an amateur doctor and missionary captain in relief.
Missionary Captain Howell Mentioned in Woods Incident
In the big woods a report notes Captain Wilbert R. Howell, leader of the Robert G. Seymour, connected to a recent event. No further details are provided in the readable text.
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Big Woods
Wilbert R. Howell
Robert G. Seymour
Too much prosperity not conductive to uplift
A Northern Christian Advocate quote compares rain spoiling fishing to wealth dulling spiritual zeal. The author likens well fed fish not striking bait to men, arguing excess prosperity dulls moral drive from biblical times to the present.
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Dives
Northwestern Christian Advocate
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Pella Chronicle
H. H. Sadler
A. Young
Iowa
Marion County
Official Directory
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Friends of Decency
Mr. Harding
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Washington
D. C
Geo. W. Clarke
U. S
A. B. Cummins
W. S. Kenyon
Ft. Dodge
C. C. Dowell
John T. Clarkson
Albia
Towa
Marion
Geo. W. Crozier
Knoxville
Towa Meek
W. H. Allen
John H. Templeton
Cordova
S. B. Hudson
F. Johnson
F. M. Frush
Square
Sioux City
Muscatine
AMG
William
Rose
Columbine
Bill
Zion
Adler’s Collegian
Y. T. van Niewaal
Mrs. Wu. Keller
Speci
Invalids
Casey
Hood Canal
Winona
Vander Wal Bros
California
Rock Island Lines
Superior Dining
C. F. Dykstra
Atin
Lnown Herd Co
Murray St
New York City
Ladinat
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