Bremen Christmas Story and Postwar Hope in Ohio
A lengthy editorial reflects on postwar tolerance, sharing a Bremen Germany Christmas tale of six thousand American soldiers funding gifts for area children. It highlights L. P. Reese of Scio Ohio, once on relief, who built a successful pottery plant and distributed over 700,000 dollars in profits to workers at Christmas, illustrating resilience and generosity. The piece also discusses labor harmony, consumer resilience, and wage advances as signs of economic justice and democratic ideals.
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Bremen
Germany
Holland Glum
G. I
Land of Opportunity
Ohio
L. P. Reese
Scio
United States
King
Country
She Oil
Continent Vacuum
Phillips Petroleum
American Bemberg Corp
North American Rayon Corp
Magnet Mills
The
Chicago Tribune
Ing
Waltham Watch Co
Waltham
Mass
Waltham News- Tribune
Tobin Packing Company
Fortye
Estherville
Iowa
Tax Free Oleo Protest and Dairy Tax Debate
The letter argues against a tax on oleomargarine and the coloring prohibition, labeling them repressive and unconstitutional. It notes Iowa controversies, a court ruling in the east striking down such a tax, and mentions proposed reductions to ease public pressure as butter prices rise. The writer predicts a forthcoming showdown and hints at workaround ideas.
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Iowa
Finley
Iowa State College
Editorial Cartoons And Opinions From Iowa Papers
A compilation of editorials from Eddyville Tribune Oskaloosa Herald Kossuth County Advance New Sharon Star critiquing committees in meetings, urging workers to back honest bargaining, questioning housing investment returns, and calling for removal of gamblers from sports events to protect integrity and prevent losses.
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Kossuth County
Sharon Star
Fear on the streets and cars.
The Northwood Anchor laments rising danger from automobile crashes after twenty five years of war against fear abroad. It questions whether scolding and prison terms for careless killers curb fatalities and urges sterner penalties to reduce highway and street deaths.
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Northwood
United States
Train wrecks and a front page of 1907 Indiana gloom
A 1907 front page recounts the Queen City Flyer collision with a freight train near Fowler Indiana killing twenty two passengers. The issue also covers a stormy meeting at Jordan Hall with Central College Auxiliary members inspecting The Randolph Collection, a stabbing at Monroe telephone exchange, a severe leg injury from a sledge accident near Otley, a Des Moines River bottle message tale, a two column Uncle Tom's Cabin drama note, local sports, a woman’s arm fracture in Pella, a fatal elevator accident in Askaloosa, and rural teacher wages in Hamilton County.
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Fowler
Indiana
Central College
Jordan Hall
Hattie Keables
Cox
Randolph
Monroe
Exchange
Case Bruinekool
Otley
Case
Pella
Iuman
Harry Simpson
Des Moines
Quincy
Ilinois
Harry
E. K. Pitman
Opera House
Shell Gladstone
Harve van Gorp
Chas
Porter
Eliza
John Wisse
Central
Drake
Simpson
Tona
Baldauf-Rosenblatt
Askaloosa
Ralph Holloway
Hamilton County
Charley LeCocq
Dan de Vries
John Pos
Uncle Tom's Cabin Company
Is Johnson
Peabody, Kan
60Th Iowa
Local Notes and Incidents from town life
E I Schrubring, a hotel man, fell and broke two ribs. President Garrison’s home at Central College faced quarantine as a daughter Pauline contracted Tet fever. Marie Stegeman was named clerk of the Ways and Means Committee in the Iowa House. Samuel Reasoner, founder of Reasnor, is recorded as deceased. Edith Warren travelled to Des Moines to serve as a Senate committee clerk, following her father who sat there. Dozens of items enliven the section as deep snows and rabbit hunters persist.
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E. I. Schrubring
Pres. L. A. Garrison
Central College
Pauline
Marie Stegeman
Ways and Means Committee
Iowa House of Representatives
Samuel Reasnor
Reasor
Edith Warren
Des Moines
Senate
Central College Beats Still College In 1917 Basketball Game
30 Years Ago January 25 1917 Central College defeated Still College 58 to 23 at Pella High School gym. Byram unconscious after collision with Willard. Boyd 10 baskets Den Adel 7 Rhynsburger 5. Also notes a 26 24 loss to Iowa Wesleyan and local civic items including a hospital drive, Choral Club program, Federated Club event, and a lecture by Dr. Edward Steiner.
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Central College
Still College
Pella High School
Byram
Central
Willard
Still
Boyd
den Adel
Rhynsburger
Baer
Iowa Wesleyan
Mt. Pleasant
Pella-Leffler
Howell Station
Peter Groet
Garden of Flowers
Fair Ellen
Henry Held
Newton
Pella
Federated Club
Mesdames Ganss
Stubenrauch
Miss Jones
Edward Steiner
Grinnell College
P. H. Kuyper
P. van Gorp
John Stubenrauch
Rev. . F. Brinkman
W. H. van
Pella Reflects on Hospital Need and North Main Lot
The article recalls the ladies pressing for a hospital as pivotal. AS Vanier Meulen bought a lot on North Main Street for a future home project, tied to her return to Pella. The new smoke stack at the height plant linked to the betters, sparking hopes for quieter, soot-free days for south Pella residents.
20 Years Ago GA and County Developments
The article recalls Drake Delphic yearbook voting schemes by Francis Dykstra at Drake University, and Poweshiek County voting bonds for road construction. Neifert and Beyers starred against Simpson in a 21 to 18 game. Farmers near Peoria fund gravel roads with Chamber of Commerce support. John J. Blommers becomes chamber president. Woodrow Washer move aided by $2000. Leighton sells 30 Kansas horses. Kuyper notes Ford cars to imitate Lincolns.
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Bolivar
Wwe
Poweshiek County
Neifert
Beyers
Simpson
Central
Peoria
Gra el
H. P. van Gorp
Chamber of Commerce
Warren's Bridge
Pella
John J. Blommers
F. M. Frush
Woodrow Washer Company
Leighton
Salina
Kansas
de Cook
Kuyper
Korner
Pella High Huckleberry Finn Play Cast Named
Ten years ago January 21 1936 Billy Vande Kieft was chosen for the role of Huckleberry Finn in a student production. Front page items note community donations toward a Tulip Town windmill and a prize contest won by Sara Klyn at European School No. 2 for playground equipment. Other items include prize wins by Lewis Kuyper at the Iowa Fox and Fur Breeders show, a fifty one year medical milestone for Dr F F Carpenter, a frozen ice hut built by Scouts at a Standard Oil Station, light plant efficiency discussion, minor sledding injuries, Richard Lautenbach’s winter trip to California, and Wormhoudt & Son offering three rooms for $389 with a bedroom suite priced at $04.50.
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Billy Vande Kieft
Huckleberry Finn
Pella High
Tulip Town
Sara Klyn
The
Chronicle
Lewis Kuyper
Iowa Fox and Fur Breeders
Des Moines
F. F. Carpenter
Ben Hoeksema
Standard Oil
Richard Lautenbach
California
Wormhoudt & Son
Chronicle reader laments rising prices and flood threats in Pella
A longtime correspondent in Pella writes of California rain and flooding while noting high prices for eggs butter and gas, scarce sugar and coffee, and a housing crunch. He cites wartime memories, complains about newspaper advertising, and applauds the local paper as a link to old friends, signing off as C. W. Brinkhoff.
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California
Crown Hill
Bologna
Chronicle
Pella
U.S
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Official County Newspaper
H. H. Sadler
George Ver Steeg
By Sadler Publishing Co
Main St. Pella
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Fella
Towa
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Mr. $En
Georgia
M Bilbo
Gerald K. Smith
Axis Sally
Northwest
New England
George
Eddyville Tribune
LABOR
Oskaloosa Herald
Jean
Stephen Foster
Americas
America
F2enduness
Fliteo
Tyme
Osteopathic
Drs. Kramer
Kramer
H. H. First Street
Farmers Union Co-Op Assoc
Voice of
C. W. Brinkhoff
Wolomye Neier
Munc
Tehet
Ses
Mrs. Weyers
Nebraska
Adams
Mr. Sadler
H. H. Weyers
Lok A
Lace
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Denver
Phoenix
Portland, Ore
Plus Federal
Ottumwa
Ture
Colfax Sales Company
Newton Sale Pavilion
Bell and Clippinger
First National Bank of
Colfax
Sale
Earl Shields
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