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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
6
The Des Moines Capital advertises a bargain counter with a one dollar price through year end, urging readers to combine with the Chronicle to save money. Also promotes Kodo will relieve indigestion symptoms and urges readers to buy a bottle at Langerak's Drug Store.
A reflective notice condemns cheating among students and youths. It cites a railway car boast of evading teachers and a public conveyance tale of fabricating multiple parcel deliveries from a single paid item to illustrate how such tricks predict later dishonesty.
President Wattles reports American corn product demonstrators operating in France, Holland, Germany, and Italy. Demonstrators, fluent in local languages, draw crowds at fairs and expositions, boosting demand for Indian corn. Hotels feature corn based dishes, and manufacturers plan to exhibit at the National Corn Exposition alongside European fairs to push trade and better grain prices.
Leonard Swett recalls Lincoln claiming he had never tasted liquor before his election, a remark highlighting his temperance and iron will. Journalist C. C. Cofin notes Lincoln’s courtesy to reporters at Springfield after the Chicago convention, inviting water in the library to quench thirst.
In a library scene two globes and a plain table hold Mr Lincoln as locals offer drinks. A Springfield citizen explains the committee will provide entertainment with liquor, but Lincoln firmly declines, saying he will host with cold water only.
A boy eight bursts into a neighbor's home with a counterfeit quarter and, upon his mother's advice to pass it off, claims he changed it for five nickels on a street car. The tale ends with reflection on the harm caused by deceit and the erosion of honor in a child taught to steal.
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