New Council in Busy Session at Pella Iowa
The clerk noted $1 500 bonds due May 1st and interest of 700 dollars. Electric department receipts were 1 603 48 and expenditures 1 838 87. Five new light customers and one power customer were added. Marshal Bickford's 500 bond was presented and accepted. They ordered 30 water meters and corrugated iron culverts. The mayor read the city financial condition as of April 2 1917 and a report followed to inform the council.
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Electric Department
Marshal Bickford
Pella
Iowa
Tni Oh
City Electrical
Wabash Railroad Co
H. J. Vanden Berg
Mobilizing Agricultural Resources for National Defense
A 1917 advisory call urges broadened enlistment to bolster food production, including older adults, nondeployable military-age individuals, and 18 to 19 year olds. It recommends state defense councils, a federal food commission to regulate prices, and focused crop expansion to raise bread, beans, potatoes, and substitute crops, aiming to boost poultry, milk, and pork output.
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National Military Plan of Defense
War Department
Secretary of War
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Labor
America
The Cost of High Living in Sioux City
A historical look contrasts past home heating with modern luxuries. It recalls wood stoves, stumps burned for long fires, cold bedrooms without heat, and the late arrival of bathtubs. The piece notes base burners, anthracite coal, and the shift from wood to more advanced heating as a marker of rising living costs.
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Sioux City
Resolutions urging care and farming improvements
The document urges better care and feeding, economic use of breeding stock, expansion of gardening, preservation of surplus by canning, and pest and disease control. It notes US sheep and wool production has fallen, cites 1916 wool output around 285 million pounds vs a needed 600 million, and links declines to dog destruction, recommending state dog laws to protect the sheep industry.
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United States
Acme Comfort Described In Nighttime Phrase
In the passage the speaker extols the peak comfort of night hours describing the time as especially soothing and serene. The quoted phrase reflects a retrospective emphasis on nighttime ease as the day's apex of comfort.
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Ing
For Sale and Help Wanted in Pella Iowa Chronicle items
Multiple small ads include for sale of stove and business opportunity, job listings for a house worker, dining room and kitchen help at American House in Pella Iowa, second hand pianos and organs with prices, eggs for hatching by R R Sadler, old teeth bought by Domestic Supply Co seeking payments, and a piano to be transferred to a buyer who can complete payments with Schmoller Mueller Piano Co in Omaha.
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Pella
Iowa
Pella National Bank
Domestic Supply Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Cutsomer
Schmoller & Mueller Piano Co
Omaha
Nebr
Relief for rheumatic pain with Chamberlain’s ointment
A short health notice notes spring’s dampness worsens rheumatic pain and offers Chamberlain’s Ointment as relief. It mentions availability for sale by F. D. Stubenrauch.
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Chamberlain
F. D. Stubenrauch
Old Bill Crow and the Honest Mule Parable
A Methodist farmer named Brother Jones treats his aging mule Bill Crow poorly after the animal refuses to work. His son questions the cruelty, prompting a moral reckoning about kindness, forgiveness, and duties to both animals and faith community. The tale ends with the farmer bringing the mule back to the barn and resolving to care for him.
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Sim ‘Jones
Bill Crow
Brother Jones
Joe
Pap
Old ministers fund raising line in Methodist campaign
An exchange comment notes the campaign has raised seven of twelve millions sought for old ministers. The speaker recalls the old story as effective and questions how it should be treated, comparing ministers to an old mule.
Debate Bullets On Courage And Marriage Mock War Worry
In Philos a line up features Halbert arguing that marriage excuses cowardice. James ponders war as Pothy jokes about marriage being the escape hatch. James teases about choosing marriage or war, and Pothy presses him to marry.
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James
Pothy
Mike
Also Mentioned on This Page
United States of America
State Council of Defense
National Council of Defense
Federal Food Commission
Congress
National Wool Warehouse and Storage Co
Wool Trades Association of
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
National Agricultural Society
Tiffany’s
Puritan
Chronicle
Roorda
Chronicle Office
B. H. van Spanckeren
D. Vander Pol
R. R. Sadler
Main Street
Halbert
Vander Linden
Willard
Sa AU
Gari Wei
J. E. Cornelius & CO
South Pella
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