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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1916
Page
2
The document lists 9th Premium gear as Girls' Ball Bearing Rolling Skates with full strap leather heel and clamp toe. The 13th and 14th Premiums cover Fly-Away Steering Coaster with steel runners and a three piece Ash seat. The 18th to 20th Premiums describe Boys' Ice Skates with top plates and clamps made of cold rolled steel, nickel plated.
Local notes recount visits and travels around Pella and nearby towns with dozens of names. Many residents linked to Oskaloosa Leighton Des Moines and Des Moines areas include Misses Pippel DeVries Gaass Byram Vos Hook Van Arkel LeCocq Vander Linden and others with reports of illness travel and social visits. A brief obituary note mentions the funeral of Harry VanGorp and a few minor accidents.
The excerpt shows a dated financial balance sheet with totals such as 116,040.08 and 194,095.82, listing capital stock of 25,000.00 and surplus of 5,000.00. It authenticates the figures with B. H. Van Spanckeren Jr as cashier and Vanderploeg as notary, sworn January 10, 1916 in Marion County Iowa.
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