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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1928
Page
15
Central College girls negative team defeated Penn’s affirmative team 48 to 38 on a neutral Leighton floor in the opening contest of the year. The evening featured good spirit and a congenial audience, with future debates scheduled against Penn at New Sharon and a men’s dual on the following Tuesday.
A critical essay argues liquor fueled Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray’s murder. It claims liquor intensified emotion, allowed their crimes, and laments national fame from sensational headlines. The piece suggests removing liquor could spare similar tragedies and advocates for wiser publicity.
The report notes that Japanese children in California are served by a society effort alongside Chinese schooling. The Chinese school in San Francisco has expanded from a small start to a day program for kindergarten through senior boys, with English taught at night. Fresno has a missionary, and Locke and Seattle host Christian Centers.
The text describes Chinese community work alongside English teaching, with Japanese activities at Seattle center in the Japanese Home caring for residents through the year. It notes families widowed mothers students and children as priorities, with cottage prayer meetings Sunday schools and church programs yielding conversions and baptisms. A missionary in San Pedro LA serves fisher folk.
A traditional rhyme tells of two frogs in a milk bucket. One tires and sinks, the other swims through cream all night, survives by forming a butter island, then escapes as the milk-maid overturns the pail. The moral: success comes to the persistent who never give up.
Two men discuss racial relations as a planter, claiming extensive experience from service in France and current ties to a large European planter community in Assam. The exchange probes morality and colonial power without detailing actions or outcomes.
A European missionary recounts discussions with tea planters in the East Indies about social ills including isolation, low wages, and the presence of Eurasians. He argues white wages and family life are strained, urges European owners to acknowledge responsibility, and reflects on his shifting focus from Shillong to the ten districts.
A meditation on inner struggle and salvation. The speaker toils to reconcile fear pride and doubt with faith as two clashing voices fade before the quiet guard of God’s Peace. The lifelong race toward a distant goal remains beset by potential slips and wanderings.
A succinct devotional verse expresses trust in divine guidance. The author Mary W. Vassar seeks reassurance and forward motion toward spiritual aims, invoking belief that God is the path, aim, and reward.
The saying urges a calm heart for tough journeys and ties today’s fate to yesterday’s completed or ignored tasks. It emphasizes discipline, responsibility, and consistent effort as a moral compass for present challenges.
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