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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1922
Page
15
A humor column compiles brief anecdotes and jokes from a small townscape. Vignettes include a tanyard owner baffled by a calf tail sign, a minister amid an atheist visitor, a Texas peculiarity, a stamp window quirk, pranks in church, a wordplay exchange, and a thoughtful street boy, ending with a street vendor’s offer.
The Adellphian Society gathered at A B Van Houweling’s home in response to Mae Meppelink’s invitation. New members led the entire program while longtime members watched from the audience, feeling like visitors with no prior involvement.
The program featured Katherine Beckering and Florence Vander Meulen among others in a varied talent display including readings and a whistling solo. A series of tableaux from Marthe Washington to the 1922 flapper impressed, followed by initiation trials with oysters and deviled eggs. The night ended with cheers for old and new members and a treat of fudge and apples.
For sale 69 loads good wood ready sawed cookstove length 25 cents per 100 pounds delivered See D S Huber 205 South Broadway. Men our catalog tells how we teach barbering quickly mailed free Moler Barber College 1108 14th St Omaha 50st.
Flowers are plentiful this year with many floral gifts priced from 26 cents upward at De Jong Floral Co. The inventory features a wide range of arrangements and bouquets catering to diverse occasions.
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