13 Oct 1910
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1910
Page
1
An advertisement touts I H C gasoline engines as economical to run at a cent per hour per horsepower. It stresses minimal maintenance, energy paid only when producing work, and compares fuel efficiency to shared neighbor usage. It invites readers to contact a local I H C agent for proof and catalogs.
Community tidbits include a push for William Kruger, temperance rhetoric, and a long state license list for stock foods ending July 16, 1911. The note references public celebration plans for 1911 and a call to regulate liquor, alongside a roster of Iowa companies paying the $100,000 license fee.
Roosevelt’s endorsement of Taft is praised as a literary gem and praised for word choice yet criticized for praising Congress and a few attributes. The piece questions the adequacy of terms like distinguished and offers alternatives suggesting disappointment in early term achievements.
The Alton Democrat praises Claude R. Porter as an ideal candidate and notes Democrats shift from Cummins to Porter this year. It recalls Porter’s 20 thousand vote defeat four years ago and estimates 30 thousand Democrats supported Cummins then. Thousands of Republicans will back Porter, with calls to clean house amid Republican party faction fights.
A detailed 1911 political slate lists Democratic candidates for governor lieutenant governor and other state offices, plus judicial and local posts. It includes names from Centerville Ames Oelwein Atlantic Ottumwa Toledo Carroll Sioux City Des Moines Indianola and Des Moines with county and district designations across Iowa. The document enumerates party nominees for Congress state auditor treasurer clerk district court sheriff recorder attorney superintendent of schools surveyor coroner and local officials with names such as Porter Sheldon Anders Blake Curran Walters Mitchell Wagenen Wolfe Van Boskirk Harnagel Brennan Cronkaite Long Bilby White Greenholgh Rhynsbarger van Vliet McLaughlin Calhoun De Cook Hugens Lubberden De Reus Porter and De Cook.
Advertisement from CHENG & CO offering one hundred dollars for a deafness case caused by catarrh cured by constitutional remedies. Claims deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining and that local applications cannot reach the diseased area.
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