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Newspaper

Pella Chronicle

Location

Pella, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 09, 1909

Page

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Editorial urges daily good deeds and right living

The piece promotes planting trees and flowers and doing good deeds daily while warning that internal corruption and greed threaten nations more than external violence. It argues clever people could prosper if they used their ingenuity for rightful methods rather than wrongdoing.

Mastery of Self Defines True Freedom in Free Government

The quote argues that living under a free government does not guarantee liberty, as a person can be enslaved by evil passions. True freedom comes from personal mastery and self-control rather than external political structures.

Roe Lorgest Testa S.tate

Seizing First Job Sparks Career Progression

The saying urges taking the first available job and proving diligence to attract better opportunities. It notes that capable businessmen will notice effort and reward it with a superior position.

Italian Doctors Claim Cholera Serum and Vaccine

Italian doctors report a serum and vaccine for cholera treatment. The vaccine uses bacilli from a cholera patient's blood to provoke immunity, with local infection following, and the person becoming immune to cholera.

Teaching as a calling fuels young America's life

The moral influence and intellectual force of tens of thousands of young men and women who accept teaching as their calling are among the most stimulating and helpful factors in the life of young America.

Mos Young America

The Ideal Home Needs a Private, Self Contained Space

The text argues that the ideal home cannot exist in hotels or boarding houses. It emphasizes that such places destroy home instincts and that a true home must possess its own individuality with a door that can close, preserving privacy and sacredness.

Schools Start Fall Term Influences Youth Paths

Schools open for fall and winter terms as states prepare for a new academic season. The outcome for many students hinges on the character they bring to their studies and the discipline they apply in lessons.

Moral reform preached for earth so heavenlike

The sermon urged not mere eloquent depiction of the hereafter but active effort to make earth resemble heaven. It called for a reign of moral business and political righteousness in this life to improve society.

Earth

Record Breaking in Aeronautic Rivalries

In aviation, breaking records is common as biplanes monoplanes dirigibles and other flying vessels compete. The rivalry will persist until experience proves a clear superior form of conveyance among aerial contrivances.

Montezuma Paving Program Moves Ahead This Year

Contractors begin grading twenty three blocks of paving and have shipped five thousand barrels or fifty carloads of cement for the project. The town of Montezuma notes the progress as it urges neighboring communities to take notice of the work in Pella.

Montezuma Pella

Work as human effort should guide pay decisions

The text argues that every worker contributes personality and intellect to their labor, not just mechanics, and this should be considered in setting remuneration. It emphasizes that work embodies the whole person, including spiritual and physical aspects, shaping wage discussions.

The Return Of Prosperity Attracts European Immigrants

The article urges prosperous Europeans to seek new opportunities while warning that idlers and vicious individuals will find the doors closed. It frames migration as a chance to improve one’s lot and contribute to society, with a rigid stance against those not inclined to work or moral conduct.

Sudden wealth craze nets swift downfall in firms

The piece warns that pursuit of quick riches tempts men in responsible posts to steal from their employers. First discovered as a mere shortage in accounts, the theft is hushed up. Repetition leads to defalcation, disgrace, and a prison term.

Little deeds of kindness stir a critic’s complaint

A speaker protested the repeated use of the word little in praise of kindness and love, arguing the phrase undermines significance while others defend its intimate tone and rhythmic ease. The discussion centers on language choice in everyday moral exhortation.

Kidney and Bladder Pills Offer Hope for Kidney Disease

An advertisement asserts back pain signals kidney and bladder derangement and promotes DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills as a cure. It claims the pills purify and restore kidneys liver and bladder, urging readers to request a free trial box from B C DeWitt & Co in Chicago, Illinois.

DeWitt B.C. DeWitt & Co Chicago Ill

Small Kindnesses Shape Everyday Life Across Years

The text argues that small friendly smiles and cheering words, though modest, refresh life and make the world better. It notes force in larger claims yet emphasizes daily acts by many rather than grand deeds of a few.

Russian laborer in Omaha to inherit Russian estate

A day laborer in Omaha earning 75 dollars a day is claimed to have acquired a vast Russian estate worth millions. The government allegedly restored it after confiscation a century ago, a tale suggesting the man may have more contentment as a laborer than as a millionaire landlord in a land troubled by unrest.

Omaha Russia

Balanced home life cited as key to good upbringing

A plea argues neither extreme labor nor idle play benefits children. When mothers exhaust themselves with chores and daughters idle away, and fathers toil while sons loaf, the home suffers. The piece warns such patterns endanger parents and children and ruin family life.

Parcel rates reveal postal inequity between nations and regions

A writer notes parcels to Japan may weigh eleven pounds at twelve cents per pound, while domestic shipments are limited to four pounds at sixteen cents per pound. The piece argues express company influence causes this injustice and calls for reform to balance rates across destinations.

Japan Pacific Ocean Tokio

Do Not Shirk, Work and Hope in Community

A concise, exhortative note contrasts workers and shirkers within a community. It praises daily toil and forward planning by workers, condemns shirkers for inaction and persistent complaint, and ends with a call to work and not mope, emphasizing personal value in contributing to communal prosperity.

Pure Food Officials Call For Better Bakery Sanitation

Pure food commissioners across Indiana urge safer food handling from farm to market. They stress sanitary milk, clean bake shops, and wholesome markets, noting bakers enemy of sanitation often operate in basements and dusty districts. State laws are required as federal power is limited to interstate commerce.

Pure Food Commissioners Sit's Pure Food Commissioner of Indiana

Benzoate of soda debate at Pure Food Convention

Denver delegates debate benzoate of soda in food preservation with Remsen board finding small amounts not dangerous. Dr Reed warns many foods are medicated and unsafe hidden in fruit and vegetables. Critics urge purchasing from manufacturers who ban benzoate, while some officials oppose its use.

Partia Denver Remsen Charles A. Reed Cincinnati Variou States

Harriman and the Market Boom on Health Bulletin

A Wall Street bulletin that E. H. Harriman will soon recover boosts Union Pacific shares above 200 amid laughter at market mood swings. The article notes Harriman’s control of UP, its vast unpledged securities, and profits from investments surpassing transportation gains.

Union Pacific Harriman

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