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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1932
Page
11
Local reader reviews a weekly selection from the Carnegie Viersen Library collection. This department invites patrons to share impressions, noting how the book informs, entertains, or challenges. Readers are encouraged to submit opinions reflecting diverse tastes and viewpoints.
Riverside Press reviewer Chief Shinn praises Dr Janet Miller for three years in the Belgian Congo treating sleeping sickness among the Batela tribe. The memoir blends hardship and humor as the author describes jungle life, the Congo River, hippo hunts, flying ants, and the doctor’s experiences at Minga Station.
A reflective excerpt notes that wrong choices arise from missing the Right Way and that happiness can turn to misery before realization. Historians recount nations going wrong, while daily papers rail at the tragic wretchedness of those who lose their path. Inspired by an Exchange comment.
In a First Reformed church sermon on Jesus On Amusements, Dr. Bern ie Mulder argues recreation has become a health issue and warns that high commercialized amusements, especially on the Sabbath, erode home life. He cites card playing as an example of wasteful time and stresses discerning wholesome recreation.
Summarized financial report for Pella School District covering receipts and expenditures February 1, 1931 to January 30, 1932. Details include on hand balances, district tax revenue, state aid, tuition, sales, and other income. expenditures split across administration, instruction, operation, maintenance, co ordination, fixed charges, and capital outlay. end balances shown. Includes bonds interest principal and carryover figures.
A local piece commemorates Washingtons 200th birthday with a period dance concept. It blends biographical notes on George Washington with a proposed Washington Birthday Dance theme, attire ideas, and a formal menu including Cream of Mushroom Soup Lobster Cutlets Grapefruit Salad Washington Punch and desserts. Recipes for soup cutlets and punch are provided for eight servings.
Dr. Mulder argues some pleasures are worthless and harmful, especially public dances that corrupt home life and chastity. He cites Jesus as a model of proper recreation, distinguishes worthwhile amusements from sinful ones, and warns that certain dances threaten soul winning.
Des Moines and Cedar Rapids list 44 patentees with 42 devices across agriculture and other fields for January. Highlights include radical airplane motor improvements, a variable pitch airplane propeller, signaling devices for automobiles, and various control and testing mechanisms from inventors like Ansalem Cobb and Arthur Van Houweling among others.
Practice teaching has begun in earnest as two year normal students rehearse times tables and the alphabet both forwards and back behind closed doors. The article lists numerous inventors and devices linked to Fort Dodge, Storm Lake, Clinton and other Iowa towns, including follower items like a nose guard, cultivator, adjustable temple for spectacles, and an airplane engine.
The article describes a courtroom scene where a burglar’s wife testified under cross examination by the prosecuting attorney. Legal proceedings focused on validating alibis and securing accurate testimonies amid public interest.
A courtroom moment has a witness confessing she chose her husband between a lawyer and a burglar as the cross examination falters. The exchange highlights the sharp wit amid legal proceedings.
A quote from Bulletin First Baptist Church Long Beach California extols choosing to uphold conscience over wealth. It urges rejecting questionable trades, resisting slander, and accepting honest poverty rather than compromising values for financial gain or routine acceptance.
The historic Wolters Walters cornerstore on Washington street in Pella is unchanged except for converting the double door to a single. The 1856 cornerstone bears Dutch inscription and notes J H Walters as the first stone layer. The block once housed multiple stores and shops, now hosting O and P Tire and Battery and Stursma’s Red Ribbon Gigar factory.
A compact reflection urges training memory for good and forgetting harmful details. It advises discarding slander and past hurts while maintaining awareness of meaningful events. Emphasizing that dwelling on negative memories harms the mind, the piece advocates cultivating positive recollections.
Prof Herman Stuart defended the normal curve as a scientifically observed law of averages for large groups while criticizing essay exams. He praised objective true false tests for precision and noted they require much prep, whereas essays take longer to correct and can be padded by students. The editor’s note quotes his jab at student claims about professor salaries and a warning not to kid oneself about the student body.
Reformed Church programs announce Always a Christian Our Lord Denied Evening Secret Discipleship. Third Reformed Church lists 10:45 Jesus Suffering Pontius Pilate 2:00 Gethsemane 7:80 The Second Word From the Cross. Second Reformed Church schedules 9:80 a m Church school 10:45 The Holy Catholic Church 6:30 p m Christian Endeavor 7:30 The Tragedy of the Second Best.
The church lists Sunday school at 9 30 morning worship at 10 45 and evening worship at 7 30. Sermons titled Christian Influence and Temper ance then Gods Heart Desire anchor the service.
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