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Pella area notes praise Kuyper piano trade and town life
Community notes report P. H. Kuyper selling Milton pianos and expanding business while praising customer enthusiasm. Local social rounds include visits by Faassen Verhey Van Ommen and Measles outbreaks. Other items cover illness recoveries births, travel to Des Moines Ottumwa and Chicago, fundraising for a band, real estate activity, and spring weather with a late cold snap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chronicle
J. van Gorp
Des Moines
Nettie
Earl Black
Valley Junction
H. Kuyper
Glenere Grandman
Newton
Anna Vander Linden
C. C. C. College of Des Moines