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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1906
Page
7
A local shop announces a range of hair brushes from cheap to high quality bristles. It emphasizes sturdy backs in wood or celluloid, and notes all brushes offer good value with prices from 3 shillings 50 to 1 shilling 50.
Classified note seeks a skilled cook for Des Moines position with good wages. Address 1620 Pleasant Street Des Moines Iowa 2611 and contact Henry De Wit of Sully. Vietted in Pella Sunday.
Mrs Steven De Cook left Tuesday for Sioux county to visit relatives then to Minnesota to see more kin. Harry Renaud returned Saturday from South Dakota and will spend a week with home folks. Dr Weber eye and ear exam on Saturday September 20 at Keables free examination. M L Dilley moves from Humeston to Pella and will live west of G Van Zante’s while attending college. Mr and Mrs A Vos of Arkansas visit relatives and head to Orange City. Rev Jas Hollebrand and wife depart to Holland Michigan for ministerial work after three months here. Miss Irene Belville of Knoxville visited Clara Mann. Miss Mann accompanied her home. Mrs J Van Maren travels to Eddyville to rent a store for a millinery while she continues store duties here and supports Molay Alle tare.
A Sicilian quarry site near Syracuse contains the Ear of Dionysius a 250 by 80 foot ear shaped grotto built by tyrant Dionysius prisoners’ dungeons and hidden listening pores enabled surveillance of plots. The ear its dungeon and iron staples are still visible and the architect and workers were slain to conceal its purpose.
The article discusses fox cunning in England and America, noting silent stalking, tricks to escape pursuing hounds, and feats from historic sources like Olaus Magnus. It contrasts English foxes leaping to trees with American foxes using branches, while dogs circle trees awaiting the hunter.
The piece describes tumbleweed dispersal with windborne seeds and notes the boreal spread of hair grass across the United States. It includes a short anecdote about Alexandre Dumas receiving a French count's collaboration proposal and his witty refusal.
In Strong Maine a single industry defines the town. The community relies on toothpicks for its livelihood and supplies most of the toothpicks used across the United States, making it famous in the trade as the primary source.
A wife frets over an unnamed worry from yesterday evening. The husband recalls she cannot now remember what troubled her, highlighting a lighthearted domestic misunderstanding. The exchange appears in a Boston Globe source snippet.
300 acre Breckenridge estate farm seven miles east of Knoxville on the Bellefontaine road offers two sets of improvements four wells and two windmills ideal stock farm. Rural route telephone service near school and church. Inquiries to A S Breckenridge or J T Breckenridge at the farm Knoxville Iowa.
The Y M C A announces a five act lecture course with top artists led by the Wunderle Trio. Mr and Mrs Wunderle, Hollanders, bring musical artistry backed by Day Williams. Season tickets are $1.50 per set. The Wunderle Trio performs at the Auditorium on Thursday October 4.
The secretary of the fair association will commence receiving four entries on Thursday September 27. All who intend to enter are asked to call at the office of Mr. Stubenrauch to make entries and obtain entry tags. Early filing will prevent crowding at the fair grounds, and ladies are especially urged to use this opportunity.
Ed and Geo Billen left Tuesday for Devil Lake South Dakota to scout farms for purchase and possible relocation. The trip follows a string of local notes about Quarantine changes, travel for monuments, and regional commerce.
W H Brown a Pittsfield Vermont pension attorney endorses Dr King s New Life Pills as next to a pension the best thing to obtain He claims they keep his family in splendid health and provide quick relief for headache constipation and business age Guaranteed at H M bans
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