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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
3
An ad promoting Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a natural remedy for bronchitis laryngitis chronic cough and catarrh using native root extracts without alcohol. It cites endorsements by medical writers and offers a free book on authorities, plus Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and The Common Sense Medical Adviser with mailing options and prices.
Train schedule notes Wabash timing at Howell with I Passenger at 6 20 AM 3 Passenger at 7 30 PM 95 Time freight at 11 45 AM and 71 Local freight at 12 20 PM including going west and local run details
A Chicago News report recounts a tale of timber theft in Missouri, naming several Skinner individuals as alleged cutters. The informant claims a sheriff, a judge, and a local lawyer are all Skinner, suggesting a futile trespass suit. A separate Judge snippet shows a missionary scolding a smoking newsboy.
A compilation of brief humor items and anecdotal quips from early newspaper gossip columns. Highlights include a village scandal retold on promise of secrecy, a quarrel between Dumley and a bitter antagonist, a sharp exchange over entering a house, a deer sighting joke about intelligent eyes, and a playful line about forgiving yet forcing memory of forgiveness.
A Washington Star quote captures the irritability of humid days, noting that humidity is often worse than heat. It mocks the urge to display knowledge through chores and small tasks driven by muggy conditions.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for overall bodily cleansing. It promotes daily use to purify the stomach, bowels, blood, liver, and organs, with a price of 35 cents for tea or tablets and references EF 1D Stubenrauch.
Rock Island Lines offers summer tourist tickets from Pella Iowa to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo and return from June 1 to September 15 at 21.75 with a return by October 31. A special round trip rate of 19.25 from Pella is valid July 10 to 15 with a return to August 20, in connection with the Elks Annual Meeting at Denver. Limited to August 20 return. Also low rates to Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast with side trips en route. Full details available from the Pella Rock Island ticket agent.
A promotional notice for Gem City Business College in Quincy Illinois claims it is the largest and most successful in America with twenty teachers and 1400 students. It highlights courses in bookkeeping shorthand typewriting penmanship and banking and offers a free 64 page illustrated catalogue to qualify for good stenographer or bookkeeper positions.
The Chicago Great Western railway announces half rate tickets for homeseekers to Minnesota North Dakota and Canadian Northwest with other territories on the first and third Tuesdays of the year. Apply via any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minn state party size and travel date.
The article explains alkali poisoning in grazing stock, noting salt substitutes on nonalkaline ranges, how animals crave sodium, and how excessive intake from alkaline ponds or feeds causes fermentation, bloating, convulsions, and death. It cites symptoms in sheep and suggests salting or moving stock to nonalkaline areas to prevent outbreaks.
Orchardists can use sheet zinc labels cut into strips to mark trees. Attach with galvanized wire to lower limbs to prevent wear from wind. Write with a durable ink made from verdi gris salammoniac lampblack and rain water. shake before use.
In England 216000 acres of fruit trees exist while Britons consume 95000 tons of American apples yearly. Indiana trials show Rudy wheat toping two-year averages, Winter King close behind. A Percheron stallion recently sold for eight thousand dollars. Manhattan Kansas dairy lab milks cows by gasoline powered machinery. Australia hosts Weg laying contests with Hawkenbury college hens laying 285 eggs per hen annually. Leghorns 217. Wyandottes 208. Imperial 208 eggs per year with 25 ounce per dozen weight.
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