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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1902
Page
10
A nostalgic poem fragment recalls a spinning wheel by a door, the memory of a vanished lover, and a scene of twilight beauty. The narrator imagines a past romance as garden and lamplight drift, the old wheel’s tune lingering like a rune and Bonnie Doon in tone, with a final image of a saintly crown.
Griswold attends a Wahaska social orbit where Miss Grierson and her banker father host a theatre party. He contemplates Bainbridge from New York and fears exposure as a former associate of Jasper Grierson. A yacht parade reveals Andrew Galbraith among the guests.
Griswold offers Raymer money to take up his note and mortgage and proposes a partnership to fund plans for workers. Raymer hesitates, fearing the burden and secret motives, while Griswold insists the gift will be large enough to fit his needs and aims to help the enterprise and end Grierson's control.
In New Orleans Detective Griffin revisits the Belle Julie bank robbery case after Guatemala, challenging the Gavitt impersonation theory. He traces the robber through St Louis and New Orleans, probes the anonymous letter, and considers a female bank witness as a potential key to identifying the culprit.
Griffin probes the Belle Julie voyage by wiring the wharf master for passenger lists and interviews twenty women to locate suspects. He plans a northward stage through Minnesota towns, finding two leads yet to pursue as the evening in Wabaska brings a theater opening and a new distraction.
A celebrated statesman deflects a hopeful applicant for an embassy. The minister praises the son of an old friend, then reveals the man’s rare flaw of never asking for appointments. The applicant, embarrassed, rises and leaves.
The passage highlights Major Richard M. Venable of Baltimore as a premier southern lawyer and noted law lecturer. A Virginian by birth, he settled in Baltimore after the war and rose to a top municipal role as president of the council branch handling the budget. It cites his sharp wit and famous puns, including a quip about mummies and papyrus after travels to England, Egypt, and a humorous remark on England’s poppies.
A far away village in Surrey keeps a quaint survival with the White Brown Meadow auction. A boy runs to points as bids rise, the meadow rented to the highest unchallenged offer when the last boy returns. Candlelight auctions at Wharton in Warwickshire unit the grazing rights to the top bidder as the candle fades.
A humor sketch from Mrs Teaspot describes writing an address in dust on a billiard table cover and finding it erased after an hour. Ethel objects, arguing it reflects on housekeeping, while the tale ends with a quip about dust erasure and a separate comic exchange about music and Mendelssohn.
A drawn out exchange shows a comic sampler of period talk. An amateur asks for a price for services while the would be employer contemplates, insisting on an insurance policy for his wife and children before agreeing to work.
A humorous Punch caption shows a manager asking for a giant and a candidate replying he is the smallest giant on record. The gag hinges on the paradox of a tiny giant seeking a vacancy in a freak show.
A compact quotation from Washington Star compares worldly honesty to virtue in a playful voice. It mentions Samson losing his hair and Delilah, with a wry line about becoming a musician or an actor. The Brook lyn Life note adds a broad satirical punchline.
In a witty exchange about art and emotion a man recalls a picture that moved him then reveals a fruit painting fell and struck him on the head. Tit-Bits notes this amusing anecdote on the power of imagery.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt recounts a woman recounting a man who threatened suicide to force marriage. She says she agreed from fear that he might act and harm an innocent bystander due to his cross-eyed claim.
A humor exchange from early papers notes the bakery moved uptown due to air and crowding issues. The baker blames the crowded hot building while the housekeeper jokes about air versus bread. A lighter aside mentions marriage timing across months in a separate snippet.
An oblique note from the Chicago Daily News quotes a fragmentary scene with tense dialogue about family marriage and money, invoking a sense of danger and societal cruelty during a football game. Names and exact context are unclear, suggesting a dramatic clipping.
A caustic collage of quips and anecdotes from newspapers, showing how quickly public opinion shifts as candidates, fortunes, and romances rise and fall. The items include a son sent to New York, a scoundrel’s letter, a poet’s conflict, and a grocer’s punchline about a pint measure.
Early warning signs from backache signal kidney trouble. The ad claims Donn's Kidney Pills cure kidney and bladder ailments and includes a quoted endorsement from Mrs. Adam Guntle of Crawfordsville Indiana. It promotes a free trial by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and lists price 60 cents.
A humorous dialogue from the Detroit Free Press panel shows a baby delighting relatives when a nurse notes the child bears no resemblance to any known relations, a light moment captured in a newspaper strip.
Poetic fragment from the Chicago Record-Herald describes life as a sealed letter placed by Fate and delivered by Chance with love as the stamp that sets it in motion through winds of woe and joy.
A courtroom exchange features a lawyer quipping about gray hair versus dyed black hair, highlighting tense courtroom rhetoric as the judge and jury listen.
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