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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1943
Page
3
The piece blends reflections on the wartime home front with praise for community unity in Pella, noting successful Red Cross and bond drives and urging continued local cooperation. It discusses food rationing, farmer efforts, and a proposed public land and taxation reform, while mentioning radio censorship and Kaiser’s carrier plans.
Editorial reflects on Americans’ duty to aid starving women and children abroad amid debates over Tendler aid and food shipments. Argues that many would sacrifice comfort to support relief, and that Christian leadership must reject self indulgence in favor of global compassion.
A memory column notes notable events in Pella from ten, twenty, eighty, and a few years back. It highlights local milestones, people who shaped the town, and evolving community moments over time.
A May report from Pella recalls spring work, church talks, and family events. Frost, dust control on Main Street, and housecleaning jokes mark the season. Residents Juki Rout and Rev. G Neivmieyer are noted, with births and marriages listed alongside shifting property, sales, and a proposed Rock Island passenger depot near J M Cox.
Fragmentary text references Namie Tee and Wes Hadd as law figures, a death at a Col Kits 2 Cyrenas site, and a person living with two daughters on the Keel while an adjacent farm theft mentions Poll. The garbled wording limits clear facts or dates.
Thirty years ago on April 11 a tornado relief fundraiser in Oniabat drew attention to Captain Lawrence who boasted a vaudeville act and a Spanish American War claim. Local scenes include a kitchen fire sparked by petrol, Mrs Kelderman rescued by a bucket of water, college baseball at Colfax, and town gossip about hair switch advertisements and train shakings near Newton.
Twenty years ago on April 26 1923 Miss Mary Cole of Pella married Edgar Alfred Wiggs a Quebec businessman in All Souls Church Washington D C President Harding sent a signed photo and Chief Justice William Howard Taft sent a congratulatory letter Miss Cole daughter of Mr and Mrs S F Cole of Pella and niece of Congressman Cyrenus Cole of Cedar Rapids also notes R Gumbel preparing to move stock from a building purchased by the Legion for a Memorial and Governor Kendall vetoed a bill.
Fragmented text shows scattered names and phrases including dates and places with unclear context. Readers identify partial references to people such as Harvey and Swank and to a location or event, but the overall meaning remains obscured.
A fragmented page recalls a court petition, a Sunday theater event with audience questions, and a banquet where chicken, gravy, peas, carrots, dressing, slaw, apple pie a la mode and coffee were served. Central College students were entertained and local officials discussed year-end cash assessments versus scrip.
A wartime essay argues that Nazism distorts universal morality by elevating Aryan interests, undermining international law, and risking global war. It asserts only two paths: universal brotherhood under God or a hostile, exclusive morality leading to chaos. urging swift moral choice. Roy Wo Kernan outlines the Institute for American Democracy position.
The article reviews Allied progress in Tunisia with U S Second Army Corps and British Eighth Army advancing near EL Guettar on Gibes Road. It notes air superiority supported by Allied bombings destroying Axis planes, and reports prisoners taken as Rommel shifts forces to counter the American drive.
The Red Cross home nursery program offers guidance on prenatal care for expectant mothers and infant care during the first year. It covers illness prevention, proper nursing at home, and general maternal and child health practices to support healthy early development.
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