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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1929
Page
6
A fragmentary discussion on advertising, urging merchants to promote wares. It argues that public awareness drives sales and that advertising benefits both the seller and community by guiding customers to stores that invest in promotion. It warns against complacency and notes that some goods rely on attention to stimulate purchases.
The article argues that high school is essential for the young, noting education should be readily accessible today unlike in the past. It contends only ill health or lacking ambition prevent students from pursuing higher schooling, urging early conviction and commitment to avoid wasted effort and parental expense.
The speaker urges patience and resolve as students and parents learn from the school of experience. They argue many miss privileges and must seize opportunities now to secure their children’s future, urging action behind the walls of educational institutions.
A Flint judge sentenced a bootlegger to life imprisonment in a fourth offense case under a new state law classifying bootlegging as a habitual major offense. The article argues for harsher penalties and broader action to curb illegal liquor traffic, noting high alcohol-related deaths and urging stronger state measures.
Edgar A. Guest argues in The American Magazine that a salesman succeeds by making friends not just selling goods. Personality drives sales, as buyers judge offerings through the seller’s presence and manner, and many fail despite quality or price due to a grouchy disposition.
A collage of antiquity echoes and political firesides from editorials and jokes. References include the Taj Mahal, Pisa, the Sphinx, and Egypt plus attacks on Copperheads and editor Joe Medill. The piece weaves satire on postal laws, Union loyalty, and a street overheard argument about borrowing money.
A collage of brief incidents: George Jennings points a banana at a night pedestrian and orders hands up in Chicago, Emma Colwyn is jailed for punching Carrie Josephs, and Demetrius Filienovic with Zivana in Semlin are likely the oldest married couple. E. C. Aldrich serves Cuttingsville treasurer for 63 years while Rev. Peter Hanson moves to a Welsh colliery to better preach to miners. Robert Goren, 16, admits theft of a woman’s purse and tears up $200 bills to avoid traceability.
Mr and Mrs Nicholas Kelch of Laverna Iowa announce the naming of their twentieth child Alfred E Smith elch. Baron Durden 18 of Birmingham Alabama was ejected from Tom Kommes store after attempting to buy five cents worth of candy. Images valued at $5 000 were awarded.
A British Columbia project makes a scale size product for artificial pearl manufacture. Wisconsin scientist Dr Lowenhart introduces a gas claimed to benefit the insane. X rays diagnose internal tree disease for treatment. German Emscher river mud, rich in combustibles, is dried for fuel use.
Miss Irma Wright of Toronto captures the amateur world typing championship in Sacramento California by typing 116 words a minute. The event features leading female competitors and notable figures in aviation, sports, and journalism from Canada and the United States.
A clipped exchange shows a vehicle issue halting plans and prompting a decision to walk to the golf course. The dialogue conveys immediacy and a casual tone as the speaker resists a long hike to play.
Everett C. Brown of the Chicago Live Stock Exchange warns of a critical hog market stage. He cites heavy marketing at declining prices, morale impact on growers, and a push to restrict breeding for 1929 spring pigs. He urges action to avoid prolonged losses and expects a price upturn within 60 to 90 days if producers hold hogs.
The Chicago Board of Education has immortalized a humorous essay about a frog by a young Norwegian. The piece describes the frog’s odd behavior with lines such as when he stand he sit and when he hop he fly, noting his lack of sense and height in a playful tone.
A caustic profile labels W. G. N. as a harmful figure, alleging theft from countless children and corrupting power. The piece frames him as a rake of modern society, exploiting the righteous and flaunting his ill gotten gains.
Snappy Stuff Morris Hopkins of Cleburne Texas walked over 20 miles in his sleep before waking. Andrew Garmen of Ban Francisco aged 71 had a face lift. Gaylord Peterson of Toluca Illinois won a horseshoe title by taming 272 ringers in seven games in Indiana. Marcott chief park ranger at Pinnacles National Monument and Miss Marie Terrien of Pro IL wed after correspondence. John B Ayres of Pensacola filed for divorce citing infatuation with Los Angeles. Hens up to 50 exempt from tax but Orrin F Wallace of Sanford Missouri pays two cents with 51 assessed. Oscar Munson at University of Minnesota receives 800 pairs of shoes 12 dozen footballs and other athletic supplies. Milwaukee court orders Bra fated arrears restitution in monthly sums.
Deaths reported include T. J. Edmonds on December 27 John Ter Louw on December 27 and Mrs Herman Van Zante on December 24 Jim Vander Pol sustained an elbow injury moving a cage at a store Miss Bertha Smorenburg active in W C A work at St Paul visits her home in Pella Henry Rhynsburger declined an invitation to Des Moines Savery House banquet to attend his nephew H J Rhyns burger marriage to Miss Katherine Switzer at Town oy Dick Den Ade went to Colfax Monday for kidney treatment
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