Local notes from Pella and surrounding areas
Local items recap visits from Lew Rhoades and the Ver Beek family, road and rail fair traffic updates, crop reports from Oakes and Bigelow, and upcoming nurse training for Cynthia Ver Beek. Community happenings include church and school events, store moves, and residents visiting Des Moines, Ottumwa, and Hawkeye with several moving or returning home.
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Citizens’ National Bank
Pete Sells
K. Verrips
Northwest
Mr. Bells
Oakes
N. Dak
Miller
Oak
Sioux County
Towa
Bigelow
Minn
Minnesota
Rock Island
K. D
Soybeans featured at Iowa State College display at Des Moines fair
At the Iowa State college building during the Des Moines fair August 21 to 31 a series of short talks will explain soybeans and their uses. Demos include soybean hay, pasture value, hogging down, silage, soil improvement, growing methods, harvesting and threshing. Tasting baked soybeans and other dishes will be offered with recipes free. A. Ver Ploeg notes local soybean experiments and calls for exhibits at the Pella fair.
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Iowa State College
A. Ver Ploeg
Agricultural College
Chronicle
Pella
Mileposts of Indecency and the Fall of a Man
A Marshalltown Times-Republican line essay contrasts a rebuilt home with a shattered family after a man wastes a life on shameless choices. It warns that such decay harms neighbors, families, and society, labeling those lives as pitiful yet serving as warning beacons of danger and regret.
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Marshalltown Times-Republican
Lincoln humor and a lawyer's sly reply in Springfield
A New York firm asked Lincoln for the neighbor's finances while he practiced law in Springfield. He replied with a wry, cautious defense noting the neighbor had a wife and baby worth about $50,000 to any man and hinted at other matters in a humorous, pointed way.
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Lincoln
New York
Springfield
A Fragmented Tale of Exams Ads and Jokes
A quirky collection of classroom mishaps and humor scenes unfolds with Elmer’s luck in a history exam Nero reference and a colonel seeking a servant. An Irish cab driver tale delivers a clay soil brick joke while Uncle Rastus ponders prospects amid a shaky congregation collection.
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Murphy
Oklahoma Commission Shows Patriotism Amid Depot Hearing
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission in its hearing on Rock Island Lines erection of a new depot at Indianapolis Oklahoma found patriotic spirit. It noted war support by railways and suggested better use of existing facilities to serve Indianapolis and nearby residents.
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Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Rock Island Lines
Indianapolis
Okla
Indianpolis
Depot Construction Message Underlines Resource War Efforts
A wartime message urges proceeding with building a new railway depot to accelerate conservation of resources and prompt handling and shipment of food supplies and other materials, reflecting a call for national mobilization.
Allen's Foot-Ease Promotes Comfort for Allied Troops
An early 20th century advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder for soldiers. It claims powder can be shaken into shoes or used along foot paths to rest feet and reduce friction, aiding walking for Allied, French, and British troops.
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Allen
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Canada
Cedar Rapids Republcan
Lew Rhoades
Lamont
Iowa
L. W. Hartley
D. den Adel
Bell
Mr. Cook
R. R. Sadler
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa Baptist Association
Frances .Grundman
Methodist Hospital
Des Moines
Arthur Kaldenburg
Des Moines Tuesay
Alexis de Vries
John Korver
Leighton
Vander Stoep
Rock Valley
Frank Vander Stoep
Orange City
Will Ter Louw
Minneapolis
John de Cook
8. de Cook
Gerrit van der Wilt
Middelburg
Ellsworth Richardson
J. W. Todd
Frank Clark
Hawkeye
Newton
F. M. Frush
Knoxville
B. L. Robbins
Wm. de Cook
Vander Werf
First Reformed Church
Board of Foreign Missions of
the Reformed Church
John
University of Ohio
U. S
Vander Wert
Lissie Vander Linden
G. V. Orr
Y. T. van Niewaal
de Cook
Harry
Creston Company
Third Regiment
Atlantic Seaboard
Ned Palmer
Kalona
Mr. Palmer
Dorothy Wormhoudt
Henry
Ft. Dodge
Dan Mollhon
John G. C. Nash
B. Lot St
P. A. Edmund
Wormhoudt
DR. Aschenbrennner
Geelhoed
T. G. Fultz
Main Street
W. H. Vander Ploeg
Warmers’ and
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Vander Zyl Bros
Physicians and Surgeons
Ofice
H. O. Wormhoudt
Citiens National Bank
Georgia
Ostropathic Frysiclan
Fowler Telephone Building
Pella Markets
VandarZul Broa
Pella Produce Co
Elmer
Nero
Emer
Rastus
Rose Eg
TR Ree
Castoria
Kinai
Willard Service
J. E. Cornelius & CO
South Pella
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