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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1902
Page
8
The Chicago Daily News piece recounts how Auntie visits family in a humorous tone. She is rich yet valued for simple comforts and kindness, while relatives react with mixed relief and affection when she departs. The piece highlights family dynamics and everyday humor centered on Auntie.
Lavon C. Cheney reports a humorous tale of Zenobia Pottsey a strong willed homemaker praised by Deacon Slattery for her labor and flair. She bakes dyed rooms and trousers for the late Mr Pottsey, charms suitors with wit, and endures village gossip in a feature reflecting rural life and social norms.
A smoker recalls a dramatic 19th century episode in northwest Missouri when vast locust swarms stripped trees and roofs while a visiting comet lit the sky. The tale ties to superstition among Black residents, camp meetings, and a rising fever of religious fervor preceding the Civil War. The narrative notes the locusts’ relentless chorus, the comet’s yellow light, and the eventual fade of both pest and omen as conflict loomed.
A fragment from the Chicago Daily News quotes a Kentucky hunter and a revenue officer in a rural exchange. The humor hinges on the old saying the early bird catches the worm, prompting light chat about schedules and work near dawn.
The umbrella and parasol were used by eastern nations many centuries before the Christian era. The oldest chinaware shows pictures of ladies and mandarins shaded by parasols of patterns similar to those now in use. Albany Argus.
An article discusses women in law, noting successes in patent, surrogate, and real estate work with Rosalie Loew highlighted. It cites opposition to professional women, praises judges and opposing counsel, and argues women must study, work, and build character to achieve parity in the profession.
A roundup of biographical notes describes Queen Victoria’s descendants, a youth named organist at St. John’s Drimeth, Mayor Low’s billboard fame for a whisky, impresario Maj. Pond’s 64th year, printer John Brown ties, Dan iel Webster and Rufus Choate title deeds, and Tret Harte’s late life opera libretto. It also notes Rockefeller’s reliance on telegraph, Bowdoin’s class of 1860 with 53 graduates, and Amex I. Allen stepping from private secretary to congressman, plus judges Symonds and Burbank giving nominating speeches.
The New York Sun correspondent recounts bass guarding spawning nests, defending their young with fierce care. Anecdotes include a seven pound sentinel, a mate’s daring leap, and parallels to other fish tales. The piece muses on fish passion, kinship, and persistence in provincial waters.
An account recalls Longstreet near Rapahannock and Kellys Ford on August 21 as a Confederate officer executes a Union spy who delivered Jackson’s orders. The deserter, identified with Second South Carolina cavalry rumors, was shot near Norman’s Mill after a drumhead court martial and later removal to Culpeper cemetery.
A Civil War reminiscence from December 1862 details Holly Springs Mississippi as Grant's rear base, Col Murphy's angry pre dawn warning, a Confederate cavalry raid, a fire in the telegraph office, a fierce defense, and the narrator's capture and parole with Grant finally recognizing the civilian parole. Moses the servant and Nichols the telegraph operator figure in the escape and parole scene.
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