Boys Ball Clubs and Civic Pride Spur Youth Sports
Thought of the Week urges boys to play ball to steer them from streets and pool rooms. Duggan builds 12 to 14 year old teams. major leagues back the effort, aiming to bulk up junior talent and curb delinquency with supervised, healthy recreation. Independence Day reflections warn against voter intimidation and celebrate the nation’s opportunities. A pool project in Pella wins praise for keeping children safe and active, while labor pledges for federal workers raise loyalty questions. Farm mortgage debt falls to about five billion, signaling agricultural stability, yet risks of a speculative boom loom. The American Way is defended as fair play and opportunity, illustrating merit over privilege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodyear
Ed Bang
Cleveland News
Duggan
Cleveland Baseball Federation
Bang
Pella
United States News
N. M. Ayer & Son, Inc
Ayers
America
Pny
Editorial Comment and Notable Rustlers and Labor Viewpoints
A compilation of editorial quips on aging cars and violence, cattle rustling in Kansas, rustling on Knoxville streets, a perilous recipe for trouble, and a Knoxville Journal summary of Emil Rieve urging unions to burden themselves with public responsibility and seek industrial peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville Express
Albany
Kansas
Knoxville
Knoxville Journal
Atlanta
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers Union of America
Ten Years Ago in Pella Bursting Heat and New Housing Hopes
A July 16 1936 front page survey notes a completed pool cement project with no buildings yet, amid an extreme drought. Roosevelt praise, housing drive by Central College president J J Lubbers, and a 110 degree heat wave. It covers farm loans, koi fish stocking, tulip bulb sales by Junior Chamber of Commerce, and various local deaths and notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. van Gorp
Friends
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John A. Pos
Pella
J. J. Lubbers
Central College
Charles Lautenbach & Son
Chamber of Commerce
Bob Klein
Harry’ Hesselink
Marvin van Gorp
Roy de Wild
Glenn Koopman
Lester Liter
Lee Vander Kolk
Don Hesselink
Herbert
Art Bosch
State Fish and Game Department
Tile Mill Pond
Pool Park
Marion County
Obituary and local business notes in Pella 1926
O H Viersen died at ninety one after arriving as a twelve year old colonist in 1947. He was the last surviving Viersen sibling and farmer west of Pella. His brother O H Viersen had died the previous year. Ed Schreiner M J Van Gorp and M H Ver Meer launched Pella Sand Gravel Co sourcing sand and gravel east of the Des Moines River bridge on Knoxville road. A front page two column story covered Newton businessmen urging P H Van Gorp to press on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John H. Vogelaar
Farm Bureau
Chas. Hearst
Bureau
O. H. Viersen
M. J. van Gorp
M. H. Ver Meer
Pella Sand & Gravel Company
Des Moines River
Knoxville
Newton
P. H. van Gorp
Pella to host carnival in Garden Square this July
July 19, 1916 report notes a carnival coming to Garden Square in Pella with a clean show lineup including animal nets vaudeville ferris wheel and concessions. Mayor Johnson backs the event license refunds planned as proceeds benefit the Pella Band. Alumni reunions in Chicago feature Walter Huxford as president and plans for Central College conference addresses.
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Pella
Garden Square
Johnson
Gentral College
Jackson Park
Chicago
Des Moines College
Walter Huxford
Huxford
U.P
Studebaker
T. T. Bakker
Voice on the Seventeen Year Locust Explained
A reader explains cicadas, noting they are not true locusts but grasshoppers. The 17 year cycle, life underground, egg-laying, and red wing veins are described. plentiful in woodlands and just starting spring in town, with a 1962 return and a note on Psalm 92.
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The
Chronicle
Pella News Sketches Sports Shifts and Local Happenings
Community notes include Colfax baseball beating Pella Meteors 3 1 with Hamilton on mound and a pool project for local children. A barber schedule is posted, farm land near Pella offered at 7 per acre, Kickapoo oil tale linked, travels from Orlando to Des Moines amid rain, and electric railway talks prompt a Chicago trip by A C Van Houweling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Colfax
Meteors
Hamilton
Lora Cole
Jerome Palmer
Orlando
Florida
Sherman Morehouse
Oregon
John de Cook
Jake Todd
Colorado
Nebraska
A. C. van Houweling
Chicago
Howell Station
Understanding Life Insurance Policy Basics and Applications
A life insurance agent explains the purpose of a policy, the application process, and how contracts are formed. The document describes the applicant's information, medical exams, underwriting, and how the policy pays beneficiaries or the insured on endowment. It notes the policy's structure with sections and headings for easy navigation.
Fifty-Ninth Mission For Freedom
An American G I veteran, after fifty eight combat missions in Europe and the Pacific, speaks of fighting for equality. He recalls a diverse crew and the Pacific veterans who restored a desecrated Japanese American cemetery in Stockton. He frames peace as a slow, ongoing fight against prejudice, vowing one last mission against race hatred. Rev. Wm C Kernan of the Institute for American Democracy in New York notes the message.
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Europe
Pacific
Ple
G.I
Hershey, Nebraska
America
Hershey
Tojo
G.i.'s
Stockton
California
G. I's
Peech
G.I. Who Sons
Alon Rev. Wm. C. Kernan
Institute For American Democracy Inc
New York
Adversity Quickens Enduring Head Injury
A terse English line notes that cold towels may ease a swollen head, but adversity can swiftly deal with hardship, implying resilience against distress.
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Pella Chronicle
Official County Newspaper
H.H. Sadler
George Ver Steeg
By Sadler Publishing Co
Main St
Iowa
Senate
United States
Bilbo Atpod
Mississippi
United States Senate
Department
Department of Agriculture
Washington
AAA
Calvin Coolidge
Boston
Oskaloosa Herald
Washington University Cougar
Research Laboratories
Fliteo
Tyme
Dora Vander Pol
Sioux County
Black Hills
Anna Hospers
Honolulu
Hawaii
Idaho State Normal School
Lewiston
A. P. Kuyper
First Reformed Church
Rock Valley
John J. Buwalda
de Jongs
Black Hawk
Marvin) Vander Waal
Little Falls
Nesota
Voice of
Des Moines
Auto
Ellos
van Roekel Plumbing & He
Institute of Life Insurance
Mission For Freedom
Oulked
van Gorp Hatchery
Vanderzyl’s Coal Yard
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