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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
6
Des Moines paper proclaims tragedy ends in marriage. The remark hints at a scandal linked to the Schermerhorn Shoemaker affair and suggests caution before declaring an outcome.
In Pella many shade trees are aging and must give way to younger hardier varieties or be cleared. The town plans to remove them now to allow sun to reach gardens and help conserve coal costlier at six dollars a ton, aiding the war effort.
Relatives on this side should renew soldiers' Chronicle subscriptions before expiration. The law requires checking expired subs, and soldiers value the home news read from every issue. The Chronicle can be mailed to troops in France at the domestic rate.
The article notes influenza at camps slows troop training and ice winter weather slows ship movements. Once ships are free, troop transports will rise and ships can carry supplies across docks. With many ships available, men will cross to aid the final push toward Berlin when spring arrives.
The rebels who refused military service and were sent to farms by authorities struggle to gain local backing as the community resists aligning with their stance. The tension reflects broader social divisions as residents weigh loyalties and duties.
Editorial rails against men who refuse military service and equates them with cowards or traitors. It calls for denying employment and endorses prison or exile, arguing the penitentiary is the place for those who avoid their wartime duty. It also suggests sending objectors to Russia with no return prospects.
The article defends President Wilson’s intervention in selecting lawmakers supportive of the war effort. It argues loyalty to the war cause overrides party and urges defeating any senator who voted against the equal suffrage amendment, regardless of state, to aid victory. It notes about one third of the U S Senate opposed the amendment and should be targeted for defeat.
The piece accuses Theodore Roosevelt of feigning democratic reform to gain votes. It argues he favors elite access to college, mocks his military record, and claims he and his sons benefited from private schooling. It cites General Miles and General Wood as contrasts to Roosevelt's leveling rhetoric.
Central College history marked by the decision to admit the Student Army Training Corps. President M. J. Hoffman led the effort, earning the town of Pella gratitude for helping establish the school. The community has contributed funds and support, but leadership and resources remain crucial to building the program.
The chronicle lauds President Hoffman for his strenuous Washington trip that resolved a student exodus caused by a funding misunderstanding. It urges community support from Pella and stresses the need for personal effort beyond paying bills, crediting Hoffman with undoing the misstep and stabilizing the school.
The U S senate skews away from approving the equal suffrage amendment after Wilson urged it as a war measure. The fight continues with hope for a more favorable vote before the current term ends. States like Alabama Georgia and South Carolina may face home sentiment supporting their opposition while Ohio New York Nebraska and Massachusetts watchers assess the stance of their senators. Nebraska’s pro prohibition vote shows voters can influence leaders and may affect Hitchcock. Wadsworth faces possible political consequences for opposing suffrage as 1921 approaches.
The piece notes Senators Reed of Missouri will keep his seat to 1928 and comments on disfavor toward him. It highlights Willey’s paired vote for the amendment and Martin’s support, while suggesting more propitious deaths before March may allow the amendment’s submission by Congress.
A Pella reader Mrs G D Croll describes kidney trouble with back pain and fatigue. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills from Stubenrauch's drug store with relief after trying other medicines. Ad promotes the Buffalo NY maker Foster Milburn Co and price Go. at all dealers.
A Virginia minister pursues a unique vocation by supplying families with sickly infants fresh dairy does. Renters pay for daily use plus goat transport and feed, agreeing to cover full goat value for accidents. Does cost about 6 cents daily in feed. USDA endorses the milch doe as an efficient substitute for cows for babies.
A period of eight to ten months is described for producing two to two percent pounds of good quality milk daily. The text claims this rate is highly effective where used intelligently to reduce infant mortality from malnutrition.
A patient testimony claims buckthorn bark and glycerine mix cleanses the entire bowel tract, relieves sour stomach gas and constipation, and prevents appendicitis with instant action, as advertised by Vander Linden's Drug Store.
Prices for stock and grain adjusted by Vane der Zyl Bros with ranges from six to eleven dollars per cwt and sixteen to seventeen fifty per cwt. Bit prices shift from eighty cents to one dollar and eighty cents to two dollars per bit, including a negative sixty cent per bit move.
Spanish influenza yields to an old-fashioned goose grease and turpentine remedy now boosted with menthol and wintergreen. Inhaled fumes bring relief in about twenty minutes, and a 30 cent jar of Men-Tho-Eze is promoted for home use by druggists.
Estate of the late B. B. Buckman offers two hundred acres at public auction in Union township on Tuesday October 29 at 1 30 PM. 120 acres form a single block with river bottom and timber. land offered in forty tracts. Auctioneer Robinson to handle sale. full description in display ad November 17. W C Robinson attorney in fact for heirs at law.
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