Pella News Highlights Local Residents and Events
Spencer De Jong of Holland now studies in Holland while visiting Pella. Mayo Clinic care for rheumatism, Chicago World's Fair attendance by Dr. Schultz and others. Dena Vander Pol visits. Vander Meulen hike to Las Vegas. family greetings and travel to Chicago World’s Fair. Local sports injuries and rain affecting Pella area activities.
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Spencer de Jong
Holland
Mich
Central College
Holland, Mich
Anthony Tysseling
Mayo Bros
Rochester
Marinus Vander Hart
Lillian Jane
Pella
Mahaska Hospital
Peter A. de Jong
Patterson, N. J
Lena de Jong
Clarence Vander Meulen
Herman Vander Meulen
Las Vegas
Nevada
C. H. Vander Meulen
Ruth Langerak
Anna Mae Vande Noord
Margaret
Elsie van Dusseldorp
Clear Lake
Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face Coming to Rivola Saturday
Barbara Stanwyck stars in Baby Face at the Rivola Oskaloosa opening next Saturday Aug 12 for eight days. The film follows Lily a girl from slums who uses beauty to climb from poverty to wealth, aided by a grim shoemaker's Nietzschian counsel as she moves through increasingly powerful admirers.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Rivola
Oskaloosa
Warner Bros
Hollywood
Tor
Lily
Local people visit kin and travel across states this week
Miss Martha Firth plans to return from the West late this week while Miss Mary Jane Baron and Miss Margaret Vander Linden Gen visit their aunt near Marshalltown. Many locals host or visit relatives in Des Moines Eddyville Denver and Indiana as trips and family gatherings unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Firth
Mary Jane Baron
This City
Margaret Vander Lin- Gen
Leighton
Mary Vander Kamp
Marshalltown
Rose Hugens
Monroe
J. T. van Zante
Nine Hurt in Head On Collision Near Farm
Nine persons injured when cars driven by Leo Evans and Clyde Miller collided head on near the Frank Steele farm. Mrs Leo Evans severely hurt with knee cap broken and torn loose plus cuts and bruises. She was taken to her home where Dr Williams of Montezuma attended.
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New Sharon
Leo Evans
Clyde Miller
Frank Steele
Evans
Miller
Williams
Montezuma
Road crash injures Lynnville residents and children
Dr. Frank Quire of Lynnville operated on a knee and took stitches in an arm. Several others suffered bruises, shock, and head injuries when two cars collided atop a hill near Montezuma. Ivan Evans, age 3, was thrown through a windshield but survived with cuts and blood loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Quire
Lynnville
Evans
Verna Evans
Miller
Ivan
Lloyd
Esther
Clair
Floyd
Mr. Evans
Montezuma
Mr. Miller
Short fragment hints at return transport or route
A brief, partial text notes someone finishing a task, moving a short distance away, and starting home shortly after. The readable fragment suggests a moment of transition in daily movement, without clear names, places, or dates.
Milton Hunger Crisis Hits Local Man
A Milton man of about 25 was seen eating from a garbage box behind the Corner Grocery as depression and unemployment bite. Several kind residents raised a purse to provide a cold lunch of bologna cheese milk bread ice cream and water for the hungry man.
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Milton Herald
Milton
Poet and Editor Clash Over Torn Poem
A brief exchange centers on a poet tearing up a poem and an editor calling it the best thing the writer ever did, highlighting tension between creation and critique.
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Cornelia Clements
Galesburg, Ill
J. van Groenen
Guy Cooper
J. E. Schultz
Hattie van Cleave
Marie Lefeber
Cornelia Wilson
Leona Reuvers
Chicago
Schultz Wo
P. D. Wagaman
Prairie City
Dena Vander Pol
D. Hollebeek
Suzanne
Frank Rooze
Frances
Florence Jollebeek
Grand Rapids
G. J. Roozeboom
Third Reformed Church
E. T. Warns
Des Moines
Warns
R. A. Awtry
Paul Ver Meer
Jennie Jane Stureman Paschel
G. W. Paardekooper
Fahaska’ Hospital
Marion Nollen
Fayette
Ind
E. F. Black
Black
Lester Vander Pol
Miss Leateanne
Alonzo de Haan
Iowa City
Lawrence Lautenbach
R. R. Lautenbach
Chillicothe Business College
Chillicothe
Wm. Coyne
Ft. Dodge
Iowa
H. H. Sadler
Robert Goodhart
Gainesville
Fla
Robert
State University of Florida
John Hoogenakker
Russell
Max van Rees
Ella
Walter de Wit
N. de Wit
Henry van Roekel
Albia
Ed Boland
Neil Goomaat
Tone Ver Beek
Sully
Agnes van Rheenen
Galesburg
van Rheenen
Chronicle
Don Waechter
Lester Liter
Raymond Welle
Toledo
Ralph Ver Meer
James van Zee
George Brent
Baby Face
Pennzoil
Globe Batteries
Monast Sales & Service
High Ave
Miriam Hugens
H. C. Payne
H. A. Scott
Fremont
J. M. Cox
Carrie Fegtly
Carrie Plimpton
P. G. Gaass
A. N. Vander Linden
Eddyville
Veenstra and Croll
Gaass
Neal Petty
Chariton
John Branshart
L. A. Winter
P. H. Kuyper
Rocky Mountains
Denver
Emeline Porter
Marion Porter
Mrs. Henry de Wit
Indiana
Flora Thane Shaw of
Kellogg
M. Porter
Joyce
Peter de Cook
Mr. de Cook
Delwin de Haan
Farmers Co-op
H. G. de Wit
Town City
F. M. Pouley
Renselaar
Baker
F. M. Frush
Pella High School
Pella Public Schools
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