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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1933
Page
1
Reports from across the country show factories reopening and trade reviving boosting buying power and morale. The Christian Fourth of July celebration, approved by many, was orderly and free of improper conduct, with committees delivering acceptable service and broad community support for future events.
New York City expands a crime against circulating false financial reports to include insurance companies and commercial organizations. Governor Leaman signs the amendment to curb whisperings and the harmful effects of such propaganda across social classes.
The Christian Intelligencer discusses cooperation between Central College at Pella and Christian Reformed junior colleges Grundy Center Iowa and Hull Orange City. It suggests combining to save costs by consolidating faculties and schools, arguing economy could boost denominational education.
A persuasive exhortation urges residents to spend every dollar, urging purchases of goods and services, home repairs, car upkeep, and contributions to local institutions. The piece stresses keeping money in the town to stimulate the local economy and “keep the old town alive.”
A reflective opinion argues Iowa voters approved repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, noting enforcement failures, public sentiment shifts, and perceived benefits of liquor control. The piece questions the statewide impact, arguing 36 states must vote and southern states may block repeal, while citing beer sales and reduced intoxication as influential factors.
A compilation of editorials and anecdotes from several papers discussing economic rebound in the east, rising factory activity, wage rolls, and potential inflation in food costs. It quotes the Louilla Press, Jasper County Record, Davis County Republican, Knoxville Express, Indianola Tribune, and Pella Chronicle style pieces and humorous notes on local life and politics.
A collection of brief, humorous and anecdotal items from This Week in Pella, including bars on fireworks, small local quips, wedding squabbles, school nostalgia, and civic oddities. Notable asides reference local people, shops, and radio culture with light, period tone.
Publisher A J Doud argues merchandising must generate immediate sales, with week‑long results and cash register impact. He stresses newspaper ads as action driven and locally targeted, showing products are stocked at Prescott dealers amid potential stock shortages.
A guided city tour with Mr. Raber visits Presidio Hill Balboa Park and Cabrillo Bridge. Highlights include Lindbergh Field Lindberghs flight Cabrillo’s 1542 landing and the California Building Zoo Garden and a grand outdoor pipe organ with daily free concerts. San Diegos 345 sunny days enable year round open air shows.
News notes recount rioting over race prejudice and a policeman’s death in Evansville Tl. E J Carroll, a mail carrier at Eddyville, vanished mysteriously. A cloud burst at Jeanette Penn on July 4 killed 46 to 100 people. A marriage license issued to Cornelius Bruinekool and Anna Jansme. Monroe sees a disappearance of Mrs George Wittmer, later found in her barnyard. Iowa State College Ames divided over a president. Daughters born to Dirk De Witt and G De Jong. Le Cocq and Jansma go to Monroe for a band engagement. Andrew De Vries runs a jewelry store in Ottawa. Brack family welcomes a daughter. Henry Gezel family greets their 12th child, a son. John Hollebrands injured by a scissors accident. Dr Ditto and wife incubate a baby. Hogs sell locally for 4 3 4 to 5 4 0. Large influx of Negroes in Kansas hints at potential race war.
Deaths reported include Mrs. G. P. Van Zee and Mrs. William Van Andel. Wedding witnesses included Miss Kate Johnson and Joe Porte. The Rock Island railroad painted the freight house exterior. Mrs. John De Wit fell in her cellar and injured herself. Central’s reps at a YMCA summer camp in Lake Geneva, Wis. enjoyed a pleasant time. H. Kuyper returned from Sioux County. Henry Renaud injured a thumb leading a horse.
Mrs W W Brown fell at her home and injured her hip, a prior fracture from six years earlier. The incident prompted medical treatment but the report provides no further details on condition or the outcome.
The May Reader's Digest highlights key baseball revolutions: the curve ball by Bill Cummings born from clamming in Massachusetts, Tommy Barlow's bunt that surprised guards, Charlie Comiskey promoting base running, Will Keeley placing hits, Clark Griffith's squeeze bunt, the spit ball discovery, Roy Thomas foul strike reform, and Babe Ruth's power drives. The piece notes Ruth's 458 foot homer surpassing prior records.
A Rochester farmer sues the county commissioners under an old Indiana law claiming negligence for not preventing a neighbor’s death by his own action. The case echoes a New York widow’s suit over a man’s fall killing her husband.
Longstanding debate over life on Mars shifts as spectroscopy and powerful telescopes suggest Mars has Earthlike atmosphere, abundant water vapor and oxygen, seasonal polar snow, green oases linked by canals, and possible animal life where vegetation exists, though inhabited by humans remains unproven.
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