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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1951
Page
1
Harry reads a nine month Iowa fatal accident report noting 491 drivers involved with 304 aged 25 to 64 and many had not prior issues yet counts 515 contributing factors. Fred and Harry debate safety, concluding true safety requires vigilance in all aspects to prevent harm to others.
Christmas Day entertainments as Koopman relatives visit. Moves reported for Slykhuis Otley and Goemaat families to new Route farms near Pella and Oskaloosa. Suburban calls, subscription corrections from Plainview Texas, and Mayo Clinic surgery for Martin Pleima. New car registrations, hospital stays, births, and Korea casualties noted along with local church updates and a fire incident.
The article argues TB can be cured in any climate with complete rest under medical supervision. It dismisses travel to distant climates as unnecessary and costly, noting many patients have access to local hospital care or treatment near home. Contentment and family support aid recovery, while dry or mountain air and scenery do not cure TB.
Local column notes a so called wonder pill that supposedly eliminates body odor with no baths. It recalls a Midwest professor disputing a Biblical claim, then mentions George Baitsell gifting a decorative spoon after a Cleveland lecture on December 28 with the topic unrelated to prior musings. The family letter says all are well and the writer is busy as a bird dog.
A letter wishes Happy New Year to Pella friends and lists states still to visit while recounting a cookie post office anecdote. Dicky Hacke, former Central College educator’s son, visits from Lincoln Nebraska and remains cheerful and generous. A poem extols true measure of a man by justice and fairness.
County Youth Assistant Dick Mathews reports 58 Mahaska 4 H youths enrolled 97 baby beeves and 11 pens of junior feeder cattle in 1951 club projects after weighing and tattooing across the county. Beeves include 52 Angus 36 Herefords and 9 Shorthorns. seven youths enrolled 11 pens of feeder cattle. Last year 102 beeves and 13 pens enrolled. higher prices cited for the drop. Animals quality noted, to be fed and shown at August Achievement show.
The Knoxville Journal notes three years of deficient rainfall in Marion County with 1950 yielding 25.09 inches, 1948 and 1949 at 29.01 and 29.85 inches. Wells are dry, soil moisture low, and no moisture storage recent. Observations were from the Veterans' Hospital weather station.
In 1900 Mr and Mrs Frank Becker and Mr and Mrs Will Reeves wed in a double ceremony. Reeves and Becker were siblings. Last week in LeMars the two couples celebrated their fiftieth anniversary with a repeat ceremony.
Nine year old Hugh Tate Jr. woke from a 22 day coma a week before Christmas, after the accident that claimed his father Hugh Tate. The Tate family marked a slightly merrier holiday at Spencer as the boy regained consciousness.
A compact meditation on how a man is judged by his treatment of others and the reach of his ideals. The speaker notes that true measure lies in the size of the obstacles overcome and the breadth of one’s sympathies, affirming the value of integrity.
Thrift won in Fifty One offers a personal triumph through systematic payroll savings. Experts tout the plan for regular purchases of U S Savings Bonds as automatic and strong. Save 3.75 weekly, reaching 2600 in matured Bonds in ten years. Join the Payroll Savings Plan today.
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