Local News from Pella Area Residents and Visitors
Local notes report P. W. Kuyper departing for Washington to join committees on April 24 to discuss postwar spending with Byrd and House panel. Multiple families in Pella attend funerals and visits, with Army and Red Cross service members stationed across the country, including Everett Klein in California and Jeanne Vander Ploeg on vacation in Pella.
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P. WH. Kuyper
Washington D.C
National Association of Manufacturers of
New York City
Byrd Committee
U.S. Senate
House Appropriation Committee
Washington
Everett Klein
The
Sea Bees
Tunis Klein
Everett
California
TN 1
Camp Parks
Jeanne Vander Ploes
John Vander Ploeg
Lansin
Ilinois
Pella
Albert Ver Meer
That’s What I Call A Friend Poem by John Burroughs
A quoted poem praising true friendship in the voice of John Burroughs. The speaker extols a friend who offers timely aid shares joy and sorrow keeps thoughts clean, remains loyal during anger, defends you, and gives more than received. This compact verse emphasizes steady, dependable character.
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John Burroughs
Smallpox Decline in Iowa Shows Early 20th Century Health Push
Iowa reports a sharp drop in smallpox cases in the first weeks, the lowest in a decade, while neighboring states see rising numbers. Health officials credit public vigilance, vaccination benefits, and efforts by physicians, schools, media, and agencies, urging continued vaccination to prevent future outbreaks.
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Iowa
State Health Department
Towa
Price supports after the war debated by farm economist
Iowa State College economist Geoffrey Shepherd, now with the Office of Price Administration, says keeping parity at 90 percent while maximizing output is unlikely. A wartime pamphlet outlines options: production controls, expanding consumption, or flexible price supports. He questions export subsidies and favors food stamp purchases or direct producer subsidies to bridge gaps between prices paid and charged. He urges further study and offers pamphlet No. 11 for more detail.
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Geoffrey Shepherd
Iowa State College Farm
Office of Price Administration
Wat
Shepherd
Futur
Iowa State College
Sheph
May Send Cards to Parts of Netherlands
A postal order outlines extended non illustrated post card and letter service to southern Netherlands west of the German front and covering listed towns. From April 17 letters and cards may exceed one ounce in weight for this area while rates revert to pre suspension. Registration, money orders, air mail and parcel post are not available.
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Pella
Netherlands
Throwth
Chirk
Engelen
Cromyoit
Zevenberren
Willemstad
Krunstand
Halsteren
Walcheren
Noord-Bevelind
Zaidevelan
Wendht
Herlands
Contour Plowing Cuts Soil Loss and Boosts Yields
Experiments by the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station at Town Site College and the Clarinda farm show contour farming reduces soil loss and runoff, increases corn and soybean yields, and improves nitrogen use versus up-and-down hill planting. Red Cross mobile lunch stands in France serve coffee to drivers in mud and cold, averaging 2,000 men daily with space for 150.
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Lowa
Town
Stite Colle
Soil Conservation Ee
Clarinda
Tyrand-Down
France
Red Cross
Prucker
G. L
Financial report of Pella Iowa fiscal year ending 1945
City of Pella Iowa financial report details receipts and expenditures for the year ending March 31 1945. Includes general government, utility operations, street and maintenance costs, and various taxes, licenses, and fines. Also shows balance, warrants, and valuation of property subject to taxation with street and utilities sections. Contains figures for water works, roads, and transfers.
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Pella
Iowa
M WoRt
Bonifield Shows Navajo Life With Moving Pictures
Dr H J Bonifield from Knoxville Iowa presented a chapel program Wednesday April 1 sharing two years among Navajo Indians. He described interior life on the 2400 square mile reservation and screen showed color and black and white moving pictures he took of the people.
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Ae Central
Kay
Jay ‘Bonifield
Knoxville
Lowe
Apel
Bonifeld
Catfish, Did You Say A Farmer and His Cows
A Bellevue Leader item recounts a farmer near a river who found his cows stealing milk by night. Neighbors suggest river fish as culprits, leading to a bungled fix with hooks on cow udders. The cows end up in the river, each with four big catfish hooked, exceeding the bag limit. Also noted is Major Paul A. Siple’s Antarctic service with Rear Admiral Byrd.
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King
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Peter Heerema
Mahaska Hospital
Oskaloosa
Wisse
Wis
Sixth Ave
Ekaloosa
Morey Hospital
Liam van Gilst
Cedar
Wughter
Loridean
Lester Vander Wilt
Los Angeles
Germany
Ina
Glen James
Irne Muilenberg
Christine
James
West Market
Magirierom
Jacob
Okinawa
Captain Brom
Jacob Brom
Des Moines
M. T. Paardekooper
Marti Paardekooper
Caldwell
Toni Gayle
Kathryn Schakel
Gerald Pasidekooper
Knowald
Schakel
H Ntly
Wayne
Elis
Bernie Vander Linden
Howard Vander Linden
Preston
Minnesota
Sikkinks
Bernice Vander Linden
Chicago
Howard
West Front
Europe
Decorah
RF. Vander Linden
Bernace
Ota de Winter
Order of the Red Cross
General Hospital
Camp Wolters
Mineral Wells
Evas
Ft. Sam Houston
San Antonio
Red Oak
the Vander Heuvel
Home For the
Fast First Street
Lewis Popma
Jeanette Lankelm
Grand River
James V. Lankelma
Lewis van Wyk
Harry de Graaf
Beverly
Mitchellville
Newton
Venport
On Paul
Ter Welt
Paardekooper's
Colfax Sale Company
Jers
Weisthis
Colfax
Colfax Sales Company
Bell and Clippinger, Owners
First National Bank of
Sale
Earl Shields
Son-Sargent Paints
Total Freece Pone
Total Arts Street
Penditur
U.S
Protection of
Cece
BOWES
Ry Municipal Enterprises
St Mt Trust
Aveney Kandy
Hota
H. J. Bonifield
Catfish
Paul A. Siple
Antarctic
Be, Byrd
Carpenter Drug Store
Holland
Pella, Iowa
Dark Mountain
Robert Lowery
Ellen Drew
Forest Rangers
America
Timber Country
Jinx Falkenb
Dave O'Brien
Tahiti
Candler
Maisie
Reno
John Hodiak
Ava Gardner
Ann Sothern
Thure
Frenchman’s Creek
Arturo de Cordova
Daphne du Maurier
ST World News
Sam
Johns-Manville
Dick Sjaardema
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