Local News Notes Call for Roorda Buckwheat Flour
Local notes list community happenings from Pella area including illness typhoid fever Mrs Kryn Wielard. social visits from Udell Hendricks and Des Moines. Knitting League efforts and Christmas cookie drive for Camp Dodge. wartime navy recruiting updates and local civic events. Christmas sales at Kuyper’s Music House. multiple local visits by residents to Des Moines Oskaloosa and Marshalltown. and a December 4 birth in the Kamerick family.
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John Hollebrands
Camp Dodge
Iowa
First National Army
Pella
Des Moines
Army Christmas Gifts from Vander Linden's Bazaar
Army Christmas gifts will be in big demand this year for boys in camp and at the front. Vander Linden's Bazaar invites shoppers to meet their supply needs in one place.
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Thia One
Vander Linden
Why Russia Wants Republic in 1917 Viewpoint
A reader from Scribner's notes that from the revolution's start the republican idea gained rapid support among Russians across classes. He argues the old Romanoff regime was discredited, monarchy unlikely, and the war effort harmed by autocracy, so even an imperfect republic may be better. He urges allies to keep perspective.
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Captain X
Scribner’s
France
Itussia
Russia
Men Knit for Soldiers Aims to Boost Morale in France
A California dispatch from Red Bluff reports Gorham King of a Tehama county department store near completion of a knitted set for a soldier in France. The project follows his Moonstone Beach vacation where knitting helped prevent a nervous breakdown. His sister and mother vouch for his skill, noting his habit of pausing work for a knitting spell.
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California
Red Bluff
Tehama County
Gorham King
France
King
Moonstone Beach
Red Stulf
W. I’. Baird
Woodland
Cal
Baird
Problem for Engine Builders
The article notes engine duty differs by vehicle type with tractors at about 90 percent load, trucks at 40 percent, and cars at 15 percent, stressing that airplane engines must endure far higher loads making their manufacture much harder. One engineer claims producing 100000 airplane engines would be far tougher than building 1500000 car engines.
Judge Relives the Bulls of Justice Martin
In Bal four Browne’s recollections Justice Martin, a bluff lawyer famed for his bulls, delivers a famed line while sentencing a sheep thief. He tells the condemned man that if tried eighty years ago he would have been hanged tomorrow morning, a vivid judge’s quip from his official capacity.
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Balfour Browne
Martin
Jie
War Echoes Create New Words From Frontline Strains
The piece notes steadily emerging coined terms under stress of war, many forming from France and front line life. It cites phrases like motored over to the Lankodrome and remarks on the rapid learning of new concepts such as tanks, reflecting evolving philological habits.
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France
Lankodrome
Christian Science Monitor
Public Notice on Drug Taxes and Prices
The notice argues that a new revenue bill imposes broad drug taxes that will raise prices. Retail druggists warn profits are already thin and cannot absorb added taxes without harming service and access. Also promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine and Hall's Family Pills with claims of cures and a reward offer. cites Puritan Drug Co and Vanderlinden Drug Store as endorsers.
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F. D. Stubenrauch
Puritan Drug Co
Vanderlinden Drug Store
Hall
F. J. Cheneey & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & CO
Death of Rev. Edmund Brown Recalls Pella Years
A letter from Professor Martha Firth of Grand Island College reports the death of Rev. Edmund Brown, a former Pella resident and Central College student around 1907–1909. Brown died after pneumonia attacks while his wife Ed Brown and children traveled from Ottumwa to Ottumwa with his body, as they sought higher altitude at Scott Bluff for his lung condition. He was about 35, previously pastor of the Fremont Baptist Church in Indiana, then Chapman Nebr, with occasional Pella visits and a brief automobile stop circa three years ago.
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Martha Firth
Grand Island College
Edmund Brown
Pella
Central College
Chapman
Scottabluff
Mar
Jorie
Brown
Ottumwa
Baptist Church
Fremont
Nebr
Grand Island
Nebragke
Truth About Cancer Book Offers Free Distribution
A medical institution of national prominence offers a free copy of a new book claiming a comprehensive explanation of cancer and its knife-free treatment. Send requests to O A Johnson MD Suite 628 1320 Main St Kansas City Missouri.
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O. A. Johnson
M. D
Main St
Kansas City
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Roorda
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Loren Rickabaugh
Alma Frazer
Otley
Pella Produce Co
Delos VanZee
Edward O'Dea
H. J. Rhynsburger
Ward Dillon
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Chas. Dillon
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Ladies Auxiliary
Pietenpol
Miss Post
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Adv
N. J. Gesman
Henry Rhynsburger
Quincy
Holland
M. D. McWilliams
Freends
Ft. Snelling
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Mich
Inia Post
Kuypers Music House
A. N. Boggs
LaGrange, IL
W. P. Fowler
Lon Wormhoudt
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Joe DeHoog
L. Popma's
Don Shaw
Indianole
Buerkens
Chas, Grant
A. J. Hanna
Grant
J. L. Benntema
Jay Hesselink
Ray Anwyl
W. H. Dillon
M. 1. Parsonage
Aart van Roekel
Son Louis
Capital City
Connie van Viet
Jas. van Viiet
Harry Renaud
G. van Viet
Fort Riley
Dr. Sybenga
M. G. Kamerick
Kate Hummel
Alice Gregoire
A. Cully
Jersey
Floyd R
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Des Moines Daily Register
Brunswick
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Wormhoudt
G. H. Womhoudt
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