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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1946
Page
3
HM Sadler and George Ver Steeg publish Iowa Press at 1550 Atlantic. Annual subscription rates listed, with no subscription details available. Main office located at 28 Main Street. publisher and editor named.
The piece examines postwar concerns over inflation and credit, warning against loose credit and urging banks to limit risky paper. It cites Byrnes on peace and isolation, reflects on the 1929 crash, and discusses OPA price controls, butter and meat pricing, and consumer vigilance amid potential shortages and reforms.
An analysis of farm land value perceptions from a Department of Agriculture poll across Illinois Iowa and Nebraska. Farmers foresee a price decline within five years and favor government steps to prevent booms, while tenants and owners delay buys awaiting lower prices. A tale from Trundle Talks parallels price shifts in farm goods and wages, warning against overreaching policy.
Editorial notes praise for summer radio joys with more music than talk and call for faster yet fair justice after Chicago killings. It references Fred Waring and Victor Herbert as antidotes to soap operas and a critique of a tango and cement mixer song. The Knoxville Journal supports capital punishment when guilt is clear and justice is swift but fair.
A 1960s Pella column recalls August 27 196 as a radio talk by Robert Renaud on WHO about America Past the Corner at the Cross Roads. It notes a severe wind storm damaging houses near Otley, Tulip Park dirt hauling, Tulip Time prep, a stolen and wrecked Bill Neely car, 4-H club calf projects, and a new post office excavation.
Tolbert urged farmers to hold grain on farms to curb speculation and opposed land ownership by nonfarmers at a Garden Square meeting. Crowds heard the talk as Rock Island offered cheap fair transport, a busy State Fair drew many visitors, and local deals moved a 50 by 300 foot building to Woodrow Washer Company via Hart Grain Weigher Co.
A Leffler Company representative from Chicago spoke in Pella about a proposed short electric railroad from Pella to Howell with possible extensions to Knoxville, Grinnell, and Waterloo. The article notes a power house and offices would be in Pella and includes a promotional poem urging people to invest. Also covered are Pella Meteors 8 7 Bussey, two upcoming weddings, Civil War veterans reunion, Zendingsfeest missions drive near $1200, notable deaths, and local rail and road travel shifts.
A Pella based Rolscreenings note shows Thurman Hamilton recalling Pella as home while serving, alongside plant visitors Ray Bissell and others. Workers move between departments, resignations arise for engineering study, and a Durban South Africa order signals strong foreign demand. A joke about a jealous foreman ends the item.
L D Schakel proposes to buy five thousand animals citing an advertisement as the motive. The text notes all high school students must attend the new building with classes starting September 11.
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