Stamp hunter Donald Wallace builds vast Pitcairn collection
Donald Wallace of St Paul Minnesota, son of Irving Wallace of Wasson Minnesota, pursued a stamp passion at Pella High School. He later taught drama in St Paul and hosted radio segments. His notable Pitcairn Island stamp quest drew a response from Richard Edgar Christian, chief magistrate and descendant of Fletcher Christian, who sent 300 stamps due to通信 limits.
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Donald Wallace
St. Paul
Wallace
T. D. Tice
Barney Mensch
Pella
Donald
Hamlin University
Minn
Young Men’s Christian Association of
Farm Bureau
Los Angeles
Calif
Mr. Wallace
Pitcairn Island
Fletcher Christian
Capt
Bligh
Bounty
Island
Paradise
Tahiti
Lutter
United States
Marshall Ave
Island Mystery in the South Pacific and Its Long Isolation
Waterlogged covers describe perilous reefs near a tiny Pacific isle under New Zealand protection. A magistrate recounts treacherous shoals and tidal channels that bar small boats, leaving inhabitants isolated for decades. The piece notes fertility, native trade, and a single shortwave radio as lifeline to the outside world.
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Island
New Zealand
Hogs Drag On Iowa Farm Price Index In Oct Nov
Iowa farm price index slipped to 127 percent of prewar level for November from October. Hogs averaged about 40 cents lower per hundredweight, corn price ratio fell to 8.7, cash farm income rose toward the 500 million dollar mark for the year, and buying power dropped seven percent from September.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Agricultural Economics
Consumers Goods
Agricultural outlook cites rising prices and tighter feed
The report warns recovery may be advancing too quickly as hog prices, now low, are expected to rise from winter to spring. Corn prices look steady, lamb supply to grow in six months, and cattle prices to strengthen into 1937. Dairy and poultry output up, prices easing as storage stocks shrink.
Chronicle News Feature Earns Pix Magazine Mention
Chronicle receives special mention in Pix Magazine for its Weekly Visits feature. Clifton C. Edom's story highlights how editors and readers welcomed homey news visits, aided by mailed appointment cards that boosted access and readership for the Pella Chronicle.
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Chronicle
Pix Magazine
Oatmeal Tomato Soup Delicately Different Recipe
A recipe for Oatmeal Tomato Soup using Quaker Oats and stock. Directions include grinding oats, simmering stock and tomato, adding soda, straining, and finishing with cream, sugar, salt, cayenne. Also a cold dessert option with gelatin, lemon rind, and whipped cream.
Cream Pudding Dessert Receives Noted Praise
A fragment notes a pudding dessert described as gay and tasty with optimism about its appeal. The readable text mentions dessert quality and suggests a favorable reception in a casual, local-press voice.
Oatmeal Chocolate 13 Tempting Dessert Dish
A playful dessert feature describes Oatmeal Chocolate as a gay tempting dish served hot or cold with cream. It lists ingredients such as oats, water, cocoa, sugar, and butter, plus steps to boil, simmer, add vanilla, and serve.
Chronicle’s Pella feature ties with local pictures
In September 1933 the weekly visit idea became a natural photo feature for The Chronicle. Over five years the paper reached over a thousand homes with illustrated articles while interviewing only 35 unsuccessful individuals. The feature covers crop conditions news family life and hobbies, stressing Holland-born residents and tying in local pictures.
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Clifton C. Edom
Pella
Chronicle
E. V. Goad
The
Goad
Mr. Gond
Iowa
Pictures Boost Chronicle’s Rural Journalism Stand
The Chronicle’s weekly visit feature showcases the gems of Chronicle offerings and readers are led to credit the pictures for the paper’s strong standing in rural journalism. The text argues visuals drive demand and affirm the Chronicle’s popularity.
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Chronicle
E Schippers Is Contest Winner
Indianola Iowa December 6 Lawrence A Touchae Marshalltown a student at Iowa State Teachers College won first prize in a contest by the Iowa state inter collegiate peace oratorical association. The title was At Whose Risk. Second place and $30 went to Pauline Shepherd Measantville Simpson college and third prize of $20 to Ernest Schippers Pella Central college student with Madeline Couch Indianola Simpson college student.
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Indianola
Lawrence A.touchae
Marshalltown
Iowa State Teachers College
Iowa State Inter-Collegiate Peace Oratorical Association
Pauline Shepherd
Measantville
Simpson College
Ernest Schippers
Pella
Central College
Madeline Couch
Intercollegiate contest results and peace association leaders
Frank Miller of Luther College placed first in the extempo con test kwart. Representing Luther, he finished ahead of Leon Strain of Iowa State Teachers College who took third. Adeline Pierce of Iowa Wesleyan was elected president of the Iowa intercollegiate peace association with David T. Nelson of Luther named vice president and F. W. Lambertson of State Teachers College as secretary treasurer. Next year's contest to be at Luther College. Gypsy Rose Lee, once a burlesque queen, now performs in the Follies and has heard taunting remarks turn deadly as six gunmen followed her home. the act was not a joke.
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Frank Miller
Decorah
Luther College
Leon Strain
Dunkerton
Iowa State Teachers College
Adeline Pierce
Iowa Wesleyan
Iowa Intercollegiate Peace Association
David T. Nelson
Luther
F. W. Lambertson
State Teachers College
Oskaloosa Herald
Pierson Firefighters Save Farm Crib After Water Shortage
Pierson and Washto Iowa firefighters faced a water shortage while fighting a blaze at the Olson brothers farm. They mounted water tanks on trucks and hauled water nine miles from Pierson, battling for four hours to extinguish a crib of shredded corn fodder and prevent spread to other buildings.
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Pierson
Washto
Iowa
Olson Brothers
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Pella High School
van der Ploeg
Vander Ploeg
Firestone Gifts
Christian
U. S
Fletcher
Francis
Richard Edgar
Warren
Tam
Pix
Aurora
Chronicle Engraving Department
Holesale and Retail
Tire & Battery
Ea A Co
Piette
Mit
A. B. van Houweling Auto CO
A. Kooyman Harness Shop
Allen’s
Farmers Union
Awtry & Lankelma
van Sittert
J. C. Penney CO
Pella Theatre
D. den Adel
Clothier
Heerema Drug Store
White Way Auto CO. Tysseling's Shoe Store
Paardekooper’s Ideal Pharmacy
Ulrich Motor CO
CO. Vogelaar
Central Park Cafe
Jack Sprat Food
Slob Brothers Gamble Store
Agency van Zante Bros. Wormhoudt & Kempkes
J.C. Mitten
E. Schippers
Gypsy Rose Lee
George Francis Sadler
Chicago
New York City
Berlin
Germany
Allmusic
Lady
Batiste
Tevprote
Desler
Probak
Probak Jr
OBA
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