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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1932
Page
4
A weekly column of short humorous items and ads. It includes quips about a church treasurer's letters and spelling, a mother and drum joke, a radio tube sales pitch, and lines about telephones and electricity. Various puns, light gossip, and household humor appear throughout.
Morning service titled The Right of the Child. Afternoon program features Prof. Leonard De Moor. Evening presentation A Boomerang. Morning Woman class and Young People's Evening worship begin a sermon series for the youth in cooperation with the B Y P U commissions. Sermon titled Youth and the Call of Christ.
A church events notice lists at 10 45 divine Providence and Human Obedience at 2 00 divine Wisdom and How to Get It in Holland and a 7 30 session on Obeying Christ Orders.
At 9:30 a m Sunday School and 10:45 a m worship with sermon Add to Your Faith followed by Christian Endeavor at 7:30 p m. Evening program features Thou Restorest my Soul or Back from the Hospital. Second in Series on the Twenty third Psalm.
Des Moines list shows sixty two Iowans granted December patents by the U S Patent Office as reported by Freeman and Sinclair. Auto accessories lead, with farm machinery improvements close behind. notable patents include a household dishwasher and drier, two humidifiers, and a traction chain. Des Moines patentees include Frank R Steelsmith wringer and George F Wilson auto service record and rear view mirror cover among others.
A collage of small ads for gummed tape apples a grinding service and contact info followed by a religious poem praising God and nature with archaic verse and stock biblical quotation included. The readable items show Henry Kersbergen and C. and G. Van Wyk as names and phone numbers 319 and 166.
Public sale dates announced with a sale at the January 18 sale barn in South Pella and a January 14 closing out sale of Arie Brouwer three miles southwest of the same vicinity.
A long list from multiple Iowa cities names inventors and items such as creosoted wood culverts, washing machine drives, luggage carriers for autos, denture boxing impressions, grease and lubrication devices, and miscellaneous clamps valves and indicators. The roster includes Davenport, Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, Muscatine, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Newton, Ottumwa, Oclwe in, Webster City, Urn, and many others with individuals like Wick Johnston Hoak and Magnuson among the named inventors.
The Fox drama Sob Sister at the Pella Theatre January 11 and 12 features James Dunn and Minna Gombell returning from Bad Girl. Edwin Burke wrote the dialogue and Alfred Santell directs with Linda Watkins in the title role alongside Howard Phillips, George E. Stone, Sarah Padden, Harry Beresford, Lex Lindsay and Eddie Dillon.
A concise defense that Christianity is a religion focused on the personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. It argues the faith is centered on the living Christ as the sun around which all Christian truths revolve, distinguishing it from philosophy and ethics. Dr W H Wrighton is cited on the personal nature of the Christian faith.
Five respondents discuss the 1932 business outlook. The Ideal Pharmacy notes little horizon light and suggests banking asset plans. Woodrow Washing Machine Co and Black's Style Shoppe forecast slow or uncertain improvement. Van der Ploeg's Bakery cites major unemployment. Rosscreen Co emphasizes mass psychology, national resilience, and a cautious path to recovery.
The passage notes bleak prospects for improvement with business leaders in despair. It recalls Curbstone prophets predicting doom while suggesting Al Capone evaded murder but faced the income tax. It underscores that taxes and death remain certain, while voicing hope the prophets may be wrong yet again.
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