Pella News Briefs Highlight Red Cross Drive and Local Visits
Local items note Bert Vander Wilt from Oskaloosa ordered to Camp Grant. Ed Le Coca contemplates moving to Dallas. Ongoing Red Cross drive urges 100 percent family membership. Christmas cards and Seals advertised by Puritan and Kuyper’s Music House. Local real estate and business updates include John De Prenger’s Eddyville trip and Misp Yoste Bennema visiting Newton. Several residents travel to Des Moines, New York, and Camp Dodge. Cats on islands and game bird issues described in state statutes.
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Bert Vander Wilt
Oskaloosa
Pella
Camp Grant
Army Christmas Gifts At Vander Linden Bazaar
Vander Linden's Bazaar advertises army Christmas gifts aimed at soldiers in camp and at the front. The note emphasizes meeting demand this year and supplying gift items suitable for servicemen.
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ARMY
Vander Linden
BAZAR
Des Moines Daily Register Free Through Year End Offer
New subscribers may receive the Des Moines Daily Register free for the rest of the year with a subscription payment of 4.00 covering from now until January 1, 1919. The paper is promoted as the best Iowa men’s paper and arrives the same morning as printing, at no extra cost versus evening papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines Daily Register
Daily Register
Reing
Iowa
Shaking His Shoes Ned Seeks Morning Sand Answer
A boy asks why his grandfather shakes his shoes before wearing them. The grandfather explains he shakes out sand most mornings, and confirms that he indeed did shake them previously to remove debris. The exchange captures simple daily routines and curiosity across generations.
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Ned
Grandfather
Habit and remedies: a varied dialogue and claims
A grandfather and Ned discuss habits formed abroad and at home, then shift to medical quackery as Mayflower era catarrh is praised as curable by constitutional lore. The excerpt cites a habitual shoe shaking habit and a catalog of remedies with a $100 reward for Hall's Catarrh Medicine.
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F. J. Coy & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Hall
Read the Advertisements on Hall's Family Pills
Toledo druggists advertise Hall's Family Pills for constipation with product claims and an emphasis on health benefits in local notices.
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Eries
Puritan Drug Co
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Texas
Stubenrauch
The
Red Cross
Puritan
J. G. Sybenga
Laurene Gosselink
Mon- Toe
Anna Hulleman
Monroe
Albert van der Ploeg
Colfax
C. E. Hamilton
Redross
Bessie Brom
Barney Brom
Otley
Beatrice Boland
Des Moines
Miss Post
Kuyper
John de Prenger
Eddyville
H. W. Pyle
Mrs. M. Kramer
Plette
Vander Ploeg
Gambell
Dick Synhorst
Os‘kaloosa
Tim Hoogenakker
John Liter
Monument Works
J.H. Klein
Misp-Yoste Bénntema
Newton
D. Vander Pol's
Adv
Fred Rhygburger
Jake Fennema
aAdv
Lou Thomassen
Joe Porter
Martin Paardekooper
Camp Dodge
L. J. Carpenter
Reasner
Geo
Ramsay
Prairie City
H. Rhynsburger
New York City
Dennis
Morse's Candies
D. Vander Pal
Massachusetts
Meskagat Island
Michigan
Elite Theatre
Owen.Moore
Margaret Courdt
Paramount Picture
Hart Schaffner & Mane
the Bell Clothing House
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Pella’s Largest Clothiers
D. den Adel & Co
India
Candy Kitchen
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