Local News Highlights From Pella Area Events
Village notices, church meetings, travels, and personal visits span Pella and nearby towns. Reports include missions, school staff moves, dress sales, medical events, and social gatherings with multiple residents and visiting guests across January.
Midwinter Number of The Times Celebrates Southern California Progress
The Midwinter Number of the Los Angeles Times highlights 1924 achievements in Southern California, with articles by bank officials, railroad leaders, and prominent locals. It celebrates population and valuation growth, new highways, flood control, water conservation, harbor improvements, and factory output, and counters East Coast slurs about the region.
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Los Angeles Times
The
Chronicle
Los Angeles
Times
California
Charles H. Owens
Rupert Hughes
Zane Grey
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Southern
Mr. Hughes
Angels
Mr. Grey
Mr. Burroughs
Southwest
T G TELLS OF BAD ACCIDENT IN PIONEER TALE
The narrator recalls a cautionary Christmas tale from Iowa pioneer days about skating on thin ice and a fatal accident. A boy loses his head when the ice cuts, the head is restored, then burned accidentally. The story ends with a Thanksgiving meditation on home and faith in Iowa.
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Walter Halbert
Manhattan
Kansas
Pella
Walter
Chicago
Kansas State Agricultural College
G. F. Lee
Central College
Brooklyn
N. Y
Jack Frost
Cavalry Band Concert For Veterans In Knoxville
Twenty members of the Fort Des Moines cavalry band traveled in bitter weather to Knoxville to perform a concert for disabled veterans at the government hospital. The event was part of a holiday season series sponsored by the local Disabled Veterans of the World War post.
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Cavalry
Fort Des Moines
Knoxville
Government Hospital
Post
Thanksgiving Time in Iowa Poem Fragment
A nostalgic verse describes Thanksgiving in Iowa seen from a traveler on a train. The speaker recalls childhood joy and partaking in the holiday season as the landscape and weather set a calm mood.
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Iowa
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Byers Bat’ry Shop
van Niewaal’s
Woman’s Mission Society of the Baptist Church
Charles Lautenbach
Lehman
Brazil
K. Lunt
Des Moines
Leland Lunt
H. C. Buswell
Charles
Jefferson
M. A. Clarke
Lucile Plette
Essex
Bessie Rykhoek
A. G. de Bruyn
Muscatine
Jacob van Baalen
Oskaloosa
Doll’s Restaurant
J. C. de Haas
Des Moines General Hospital
J. S. Jelsma
Puritan
Puritan Drug Co
J. H. Cole
Miller, S. D
Mr. Cole
Mr. A
Corsica
S. D
Mabel Schneer
George M. Derbyshire
Ottumwa
First Baptist Church
Dick Verought
Clarence Buerkens
Owasa
Herbert
Elizabeth Vander Lyde
Mildred Ault
Mitchellville
Ethel Roovaart
Herman Sedrel
Miss Edith
D. C. van Zante
P. van Haalen
Wm. Pippel
Gerrit van Haalen
Gladys Buerkens
Humeston
Harry Roorda
Ruth Ten Hagen
First Christian Reformed Church
G. Vander Hart
H. J. Veldhuizen
P. van Domselaar
J. van Houweling
John McQuilken
G. H. Waechter
Oklahoma
Doll's Restaurant
van Niewaal
Albert van Heukelem
Albert
Dick de Wit
Prairie City
James de Wit
N. de Wit
Harry van Hemert
Marengo
J. H. Veenstra
North Main St
Harry
W. R. Springer
Loraine
Frank Warner
Viiet
Sund
J. H. van Vliet
Presbyterian Hospital
Dr. Sippie
Fred Richardson of
Kellogg
Louisa Richardson
Paul de Wit
Lansing
Ill
Wm. MelIntire
St. Joseph, Mo
Charles Sipkema
L. van Rees
Sully
P. W. van Gorp
Grippe
Will van de Voort
Gerrit van Genderen
John Engelenburg of
Wm. J. den Hartog
G. W. Verrips of
Eddyville
Fred Daly
Mr. Daly
Butters Corner
Harry de Bruyn
Prairie City News
J. A. Pos
Chariton
Lucas County
Lincoln Township
Chariton Township
A. T. Vander Beek
T. G
Father
P. C. Lankelma
van Houweling
W. A. Young
Chronicle Office
Abe van Nimwegen
Franklin Street
Carl Byers
Jno
J. van Dyke
Heerema Bros
van Niewaal Pella