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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1914
Page
8
A few fine Barred Rock cockerels offered for immediate sale. Interested buyers should visit 407 Main Street in Pella, Iowa to see the birds and arrange purchase.
Lucille rides across the river in disguise to warn a ranchman of a Mexican foraging party. She helps steer a pursuing group toward a border patrol and aids a grizzled ranchman who proves to be her kin as a sentry halts the raid. The confrontation ends with surrender and a promise to report to the commander. Continued next week.
Marion county Iowa drainage board meets in Knoxville to adjourn all drainage matters including Drainage District No 2 until August 1 1914. D G VanZante presides with votes in favor from Smith Allen and VanZante.
The board met after adjournment with all members present. Minutes from August 31 1914 were read and approved. Claims allowed include G L Neal dragging 6.75 Midland Metal Mfg Co culverts 31.35 Town Pure Iron Culvert Co culverts 711.50 Midland Metal Mfg Co culverts.
List of county expenditures including Metz and Brown for painting bridges at 354.43, W C Weaver for bridge repairing 28.48, American Home Finding Assn expense for orphan 25.00, Osborns Pharmacy quarantine expense 16.85, J W Brawn aid to poor 28.50, John DeCook constable fees 6.80, Vander Wilt Kamerick Co supplies court house 17.75, W L Roberts supplies court house 2.05, Amos and Davies Hardware road material 60.40, B Kennedy trees destroyed in road 52.00, C A Koenig freight and drayage 40, F A Converse bridge labor 40.00, E Pringle road material 2.25, Smith and Sons Mfg Co scrapers 7.00, J T Wirene bridge labor 6.00, Wash Porter dragging 65.25, Meyer Langerak typewriter for engineer 95.00, J R Wright quarantine expense 16.50, Zion Office Supply 10.55, Harry L Renaud provisions to poor 23.25, D G VanZante board member 124.35, Matt Parrott & Sons Co supplies 10.99, N D Shinn county attorney expense 12.30.
The word garden has stretched from private inclosures in Anglo-Saxon times to broad estates and small backyards. It denotes land tied to private life and beauty, from fortressed plots to kitchen plots and ornamental plots, evoking romance across ages per the Philadelphia Record.
A Mississippi river stormboat rattlesnake box draws fingers back from the glass as instinct wins over reason. In Paris a man seeking death clings to a lamp post during a lion escape, then returns to drown himself after danger passes. Washington Star.
The piece explains how Spanish uses vivid nicknames for infirmities to refer to people. Terms like el ciego, tuerto, chato, bisojo, cojo, manco, jorobudo, calvo, and pelon illustrate how men and women are labeled by perceived flaws. It notes these forms are common especially among lower classes and often used as forms of address.
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