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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1930
Page
2
Muskegon visitors and relatives gather as Dan Dieleman attends a brother’s funeral near Bloomfield. Local residents travel to Des Moines and Knoxville for business and family events, while illness, funerals, and church activities thread through a busy regional scene.
The U S Department of Agriculture warns households to securely store poisons away from food after a holiday fruit cake incident. Dr P B Dunbar stresses locking up garden and domestic insecticides and keeping them from pantry shelves, noting a poison package can be as dangerous as a loaded gun. Past cases include arsenic mistaken for flour and contaminated sugar causing illness and deaths.
An unconfirmed street report says Russell Van Zante of this city married Bess Van Veen of Des Moines at Osceola last Thursday and they planned to move to California. Details are scarce and verification failed after attempts to reach the parties. Mrs Klein later said she had no word on the marriage.
Ida B Wise Smith, president of the W C T U, told a Second Reformed church audience that prohibition grew from prayer and is an educational tool not law enforcement. She argued the buyer bears guilt for supporting bootlegging and traced the 18th amendment’s broad support and global spread.
The Farmers Union and Co Operative Oil Association at Pella held joint meetings in the Union building and heard reports from John Adair and Albert Lah. Milo Reno, state president, spoke on union achievements and future aims as members elected a new seven member advisory board for the local station and planned a county gathering despite cold weather.
The report records births and invited houses since the last report. Included are Myola Elaine Miller Knoxville born Jan 5 1980 John James Robuck Knoxville born Jan 7 1980 Emma Maxine Rinehart Pella born Jan 5 1930 Don Paul Nicholson Indiana township born Jan 3 1980 Helen Louise Batton Pleasant Grove township born Jan 12 1980. The list also mentions invited residents Eddyville Cordova Hazel Stico Dea Moines Charley A Matthews Busse LeVon Brophy and others.
A fragment from a freshman level exchange hints at self doubt and ambition, mentioning acting and reading. The note references the Chronicle and its want ads as a source of results, implying a campus newspaper context without full clarity.
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