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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1910
Page
4
The fragmentary lines reference a game or matchup involving Wells and a team called the Herd. Details are unclear, but hints point to a past contest and betting or scoring notes. Entities include Wells and a team called the Herd, with possible New York references.
Conductor Singmaster and brakemen Wray and Mott of Rock Island escaped death after their way car and a loaded coal car left the track and plunged down an embankment east of Oskaloosa. Singmaster was bruised. Wray and Mott uninjured. Local track crew cleared the line. wrecking crane arrived from Valley Junction to recover the wreckage, as reported by the Oskaloosa Herald.
Sept. 16 report from Hubbard notes W H Hoelscher’s two year old climbed to the top platform of a fifty foot steel windmill. He used a chair on a bushel basket to reach the ladder, and had no wind to move the wheel. Hoelscher took the rungs out to prevent a repeat.
A N Kuyper, prominent lumber dealer, left Tuesday evening for Canada. He will spend a week or ten days inspecting his farm and arranging the marketing of his large small grain crop.
The thirteenth annual League of Iowa Municipalities gathering meets September 20 21 and 22 in Waterloo with delegates from nearly 3650 municipalities. Discussions cover taxation of railway property health water rates and municipal services amid plans to seek tax reform pledges from nominees and to align with state health and accounting issues.
A deacon recalls Jonathan Rigdon who spent a fortune on a monument he never completed in life. He sold his wife’s clothes to fund it, beat his wife, and saw his family collapse. The finished monument is a mansion built by a man who drank away his fortune.
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