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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1903
Page
8
A Pall Mall Gazette verse recounts a gardener tending a plot with weeds, tomatoes, and a stealthy kitten. Slugs and worms attack the crop while the gardener tends and protects, until a boy steals and eats the ripened fruit, leaving the narrator with only the boy as the outcome.
Summary of a Sunday School lesson on 2 Samuel noting David’s inquiry to the Lord about becoming king, Hebron as the chosen capital, Judah’s support, and David’s praise for Jabesh Gilead’s burial of Saul. It covers the anointing, the move to Hebron, and the early leadership split with Ishbosheth.
The text describes Abner son of Ner orchestrating Ishbosheth’s rule from Mahanaim, a two year reign ending with Abner’s death, leaving David secure in Judah. It notes ongoing mild civil strife, loyalty of Judah to David, and includes moral guidelines and reflections on Christian conduct and faith. Cresco Iowa.
A Young People Meeting for September 15, 1905 discusses spiritual hunger vs. material pleasure. It warns against intemperance in success and wealth, citing Moses and Bunyan, urging a balance where the world is used but not abused, with focus on immortal soul welfare.
Poem style verse celebrating summer scenes and family joy. Vivid nature imagery—dew on roses, buttercups, daisies, birds, and bees—advances a homespun wish to reunite with a loved one. Attributions point to J. M. Lewis in the Houston Post.
A husband consoles his invalid wife Bettie who fears burdening him as her sister plans a visit. He recalls courtship and moonlight while the wife lingers in frail nerves. The piece pivots on home life strained by illness, with the Paris return of Bettie bringing potential relief.
Bettie helps her invalid sister in law and her brother Silas, a lonely farmer, until a chance visit from Rose Wagner renews life. Silas, seeking a character reference, gains trust from Pastor Harlow and wins Katie Hamilton through letters. They marry at the village parsonage and find happiness on the old farm with apple orchards.
A whimsical piece likens composers to garden blooms with Weber as a bright carnation and Beethoven as a rose. Mozart appears as a modest violet, Chopin as tuberose, Liszt as a gaudy tulip, Haydn a field of blossoms, Mendelssohn jasmine, and Mendelssohn as a sweet but overly so.
A Philadelphia Bulletin quote condemns men for injecting gambling instincts into social games, shirking responsibility, aging poorly, writing equivocal letters, despising women, boasting of success, neglecting the needy, mismanaging private funds, shaming children publicly, and displaying a self serving, unmanly character.
A St Louis company wins a concession to operate two thousand automobile chairs at the St Louis World’s Fair. Wages abroad generally exceed U S levels, and Standard Oil runs many world stations delivering water white oil to homes. Rail and steamship lines push circular tickets for long circuits. Union Pacific unveils a unique water-carrying train for western stations using pressed steel cars and alkali-resistant boilers. the test shows success.
An old-fashioned garden charm returns as two colonial gardens begin on the south grounds of the White House. When finished this fall they will echo Mount Vernon with box-hedge borders and historic flowers and shrubs famous worldwide.
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