Letters from the Front: Journey Through Texas to Brownsville
Harry DeCook of the Iowa National Guard describes travel from Emporia Kansas through Oklahoma and Texas toward Brownsville. He notes cotton fields in Oklahoma, Texas cactus near Gainesville, and dreary plains with cattle and villages. He recounts a Houston stop, a YMCA bath experience in Fort Worth, and a Kingsville bath house before reaching camp life plans at Brownsville.
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Emporia
Kansas
Arkansas
Creston
Pella
Oklahoma
Doughtery
Okla
Gainsville
Texas
Houston
Federal Building
Fort Worth
Y. M
Central
Kingsville
Brownsville
Texas Plains
Harry DeCook
Cq” 3Rd Regiment
Iowa,National Guard
Camp
Local notes from Pella and surrounding towns
Local notes list frequent visits, travel to Albia Des Moines and Knoxville, relatives in Bloomfield Orange City and Colorado Springs, with pool fund drive and drought showers. Mentions Puritan Drug Co. ads and several local residents including the Blommers family, Prof Childs, J. B. Cornelius, and Bob Scholte. Notable items include a man injured at Garden City Feeder Factory and plans for a city swimming pool fundraiser.
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John Bloem
Albia
BH. M. Hinton
Hedrick
Pella
Warner ‘van Spanckeren
Des Moines
Henry VanBrogen
Olivet
E. A. Sheesley
Sam Hess
Ben Blommers
Bloomfield
Elliot
A. G. W. Childs
Kokomo
Ind
Wabash
W. Dykstra
Orange City
Purian Drug Co
Bob Scholte
State Laboratory
Lake Okoboji
J. F. Baker
Northwood
Iowa
J. B
Bradgate
Minnegota
Puritan Drug Co. Adv
Billy Baer
Garden City
Co. C. Core
Knoxville
J. R. McGraw
J. M. Hart
Carter
Wm, Taylor
H.C. Williamson
Ralph Williams
Roy Shilling
H. C
Rough on Rats ad touts outdoor extermination claims
A dated advertisement promotes an extermination product named Rough on Rats claiming effectiveness against rats and mice outdoors. It lists distribution by Wells in Jersey City New Jersey and mentions outlets like drug and country stores with a free comic picture offer.
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U. 3
Gov't Too
Drug & Country
Wells
Jersey City
Dutch Picnic Planned as August 10 Date
Local community notes record visits among Otley and Knoxville residents and friends from Pella Reasnor and Grinnell. Several trips to see Mr and Mrs Jack Steinman and Akins family are listed along with church luncheon attendance and club events. Elizabeth Wherley and family from Tainter and mixed Des Moines visitors are noted amid bright social gathering details.
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Heron Steinman
Knoxvile
Dirk Kreeken
Knoxville
Eliza. Wherley
Tainter
Litkey
Grinnell
Jack Steinman
Bart Bootsford
S§. Steinman
Akins
Clark Baker
Bertha Donagan
Charlie Killgore
Des Moines
Ladies Club
Ples DeMor
Otley Baptist Church News Features Sunday Meeting
Rev Albert Vander Pleek reports a high interest all day service at Otley Baptist church with a tree side dinner and a purse presented to the pastor. Four people are to be baptized at Rousseau next Sunday in a baptismal service.
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Otley
Pella
Albert Vander Pleek
Baptist Church
Rousseau
A Word for Mothers Emulsion Promises Strength
An old advertisement urges mothers to avoid silent suffering from aches and fatigue. It promotes Scott's Emulsion as a tonic to invigorate blood, strengthen tissues, nourish nerves, and build stamina, claiming broad use among mothers with no alcohol in the product.
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Scott
Scott’s
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Bargains in Real Estate and Misc Ads in Chronicle
A collection of classified notices from the Chronicle includes real estate bargains around Pella with 76 acres near distant farm land, a five-room cottage near the square, a modern weight-room house, and a big lot with barn. Also advertised are a five-room residence, a motorbike, a family driving mare with buggy harness, a found fountain pen, and service to match buyers and sellers via the Chronicle office.
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Chronicle
Pella
Allen's Foot-Ease Antiseptic Powder Ad
One size smaller feet after using Allen's Foot-Ease the antiseptic powder to shake into the shoes and used in the foot bath for hot tired swollen aching tender feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Sold everywhere 25c Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease. Don’t accept substitutes.
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Allen
Wealth rise too rapid for most to grasp
Experts estimate national wealth grows by 22 million dollars daily. Multiplied by working days this figure confuses many. Unequal distribution persists and concerns arise that America fails to meet its stewardship of vast uncounted possessions.
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America
Alice Bee Sting Causes Painful Cry in Garden
Alice rushed inside from the garden after being stung by a bee. She clutched her finger and sobbed, crying that she burned herself on a bug, in a vivid Brooklyn Life anecdote.
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Alice
Brooklyn
Candidate Hughes Mocked As Overqualified Lawyer
The passage jokes that Mr. Charles H. Hughes, the Republican presidential candidate, has been thoroughly “doctored” becoming a bachelor of laws at Columbia and a doctor of laws by several universities including Brown Columbia Knox LaFayette Union Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Charles H. Hughes
Columbia University
Brown, Columbia
Knox
LaFayette
Union
Colgate
The
University of Pennsylvania
University class gifts 1916 fund annual scholarship
The University of Chicago convocation honors the class of 1916 by gifting eight hundred dollars to establish a yearly scholarship for a deserving student, preferably a graduate of the class. It notes the Hoosac Tunnel as the longest in America and adds Rogers Pass Tunnel under the Selrick Range on the Canadian Pacific line, planned to be five miles long and costing over ten million dollars.
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Chicago
Retailers’ Commercial Union
University of Chicago
America
Hoosac
Massachusetts
Rocky Mountain
Canadian Pacific Railway
Rogers Pass
Selrick Range
Virginia Union University Founded From Three Seminaries
The school formed from Wayland Seminary Richmond Theological Seminary and Virginia Union University has, in fifty years, trained about 4000 colored students across all levels. It produced 1500 preachers, 1000 teachers, 12 foreign missionaries, and many race leaders. Each year about 3800 young men enroll across its departments.
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Virginia Union University
Wayland Seminary
Washington
Richmond Theological Seminary
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T. van Niewaal
Gambell’s
L. Goulooze
Will
Colorado Springs
Jacob Kamp
Tipton
Dan Kamp
Marvin
Adams
Nebr
Arie Schakel
W.W. H. Vander Ploeg
Clear Lake
Jersey
Dick VanOmen
Evans
B. VanOmen
T. T. Bakker
Mr. Bakker
Russell Union
Cordova
Pearl Calhoun
Len Calhoun
Clare McOmber
Reasnor
Ben Renaud
Steinman
Neal VandenBaard
Monroe
Jud Akins
the Chronicle
Enquire Chronicle Office
Nowell
Globe Vulcanizing Works
J. BE
Roorda
Columbus St
City of
Pelly
J. H. Soetens
South St. Pella
South St
South Pella
Oskaloosa St
Main St
Vans der Zyl Bros
Pella Produce Co
Kress Dip
Linden
Southern Iowa Fair and Exposition
Oskaloosa
Patent Lawyers
Seventh St
Washington, D. C
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