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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1942
Page
3
A historical column reviews wartime outlooks and public concerns. It notes advances in production arms and devices, radio and television vision promises, and cautions about road and winter hazards. Debates on manpower and domestic utilization reflect wartime economics and policy shifts.
A stitched together editorial fragment discusses belief, religious faith in danger, and moral lessons from war. It notes wartime resilience and urges prayer, while contrasting voter apathy with imagined coercion in elections. The piece cites Basuta and Eadie Rickenbacker and touches on turnout in 1942.
An advertisement by E. R. Squibb & Sons from New York extols an American dream of freedom and courage. It frames liberty as the world’s hope and calls readers to keep singing, working, and fighting for America in wartime.
A near the square fire paused activity as a house was saved with water and buckets. Central College drew attention when a local student Leilit Bayless eloped with Meyer of Ir vey, ending at a jail visit. efforts to deliver a new Abbott-Detroit car for John Vander Zyl. Pos rents a new East Square building for his variety store stock.
A fragmented dispatch recounts early 20th century life near Pella and Walnuts in New Yeaml Chien, naming residents Meg and Mrs. Case, Jubilee figures like Silver of New and Bodie operteminated Wadker, a Third Returned Church remodel, local officials buying stock for railroad projects, and a Marion County age 107 woman from Hamilton Ohio born in 1793. The piece blends farm life, small-town business, and archival remarks from the Western Newspaper Union.
The Treasury Department distributes forms V-1 and V-2 for employers to start withholding the 6 percent victory tax next month. V-1 records total withheld each quarter with a full employee schedule. V-2 serves as the employee receipt, given to the worker and sent to the revenue collector. The tax applies from January 1 to individuals earning more than $624 annually, with withholding at source for wage earners above $12 a week or $62 a month.
Eyewitness accounts describe De Hey and Mr Rennes in Pelle neighborhood as crops and homes suffered during the blast. Several trees were downed and power lines frayed. police and emergency crews cordon off affected lanes as cleanup begins.
Twenty years ago on January 12 1998 McWilliams was elected to a board seat of the Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting a report noted a road committee formed offered estimates and planning for local projects.
Report notes the Pella Tigers defeating a Krosville squad in a rough contest. Observers describe early scoring flurries, the Piser second team shelling the visitors as late as the rt ho Ver Pe painted a figure, and community figures from the Reformed Church and Civil Service era attending a silver wedding celebration and open house at a local home.
Vague obituary notes the death of Calvin Coolidge with fragmented references to family, travels, and a committee collecting aid for the poor. Mentions of housing sales, a brick house transfer, a basketball game, and Marion County delaying delinquent tax sales amid a crowd of about four hundred.
A St Anns Enterprise note compares coffee and hard liquor by volume noting four coffee cups equal a quart. It reports a proposed coffee ration of one cup per day per person and a liquor board plan setting twelve quarts of hard liquor per month with beer uncapped. The piece laments the shift from prohibition era norms to regulated limits.
A garbled note discusses social strain and rationing, mentioning spiritons and a coffer rationing shunt. The speaker reflects on a path taken and compliance, with unclear references to others and events. The text reads as fragmented commentary with no clear names or places.
A Sunday School lesson meditates on Jesus as the eternal Word and the Light of the World from John’s Gospel. The text recalls John the Baptist as a witness and emphasizes belief in Christ as the path to peace and life, urging readers to accept the Savior and resist spiritual darkness.
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