Nearby town visits and a tragic Wyoming death
Misses Lena and Marie Vander Linden visited in Pella Thursday and Friday. Miss Lucille Heimstra rode to Pella Friday and stayed with friends until Monday. Master Marion Dave Vander Linden returned home from Wm. Van der Waal's Saturday. Mrs. R. Zaager went to Pella to see her newborn granddaughter born July 16. Mrs. C. Kloosterman and granddaughter Gertrude Bennink visited Dick Van Ryswyk's. Miss Jennie Vanderzyl of Orange City visited W. Van de Kamp's and relatives, then went to Pella. Mrs. Charlie Brunner learned of her nephew Dale Johnson's death in Wheatland, Wyoming, after a wagon accident.
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Lena
Marie Vander Linden
Pella
Lucille Heimstra
Marion Dave Vander Linden
Wm. van der Waal’s
R. Zaager
N. A. van Haaften
C. Kloosterman
Gertrude Bennink
Dick van Ryswyk
Eddyville War Time News and Community Notes
Eddyville residents share wartime efforts and family visits. Rev. Kilbourn heard Bryan speak in Pella on Fundamentals. Mrs. Linderman promotes wartime knitting and sends sons to camp. Peter Klaaren returns from Camp Dodge. Will Baer’s Eddyville friend visit precedes his war departure. City council contracts Mid-West Electric for light plant upgrades. general equipment arrives later after a robbery. Local movers include Billy Mitchell, Melcher, and Melcher coal prospects. Mrs. Barker relocates to Chicago for wartime life, Cyrus Weaver returns to Marshalltown Soldiers' Home for care. Mrs. Hester attends Casey reunion with Neiferts and relatives from out of town.
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I. A. Wormhoudt
Pella
Peter Klaaren
Camp Dodge
Des Moines
Pete
Artie VanRoekel
Wray Ver Ploeg
Leighton
Zella Berry
Ottumwa
Will Baer
Eddyville
Willie
Will
Sam Kussart
J. L. Sipes
Mid-West Electric Co
Omaha
John R. DeMoss
Billy” Mitchell
Melcher
James Mitchell
Flagler
Billy
Iowa
Matilda M. Barker
F. C. Barker
Knoxville Journal
Washington, D. C
Chicago
The
Journal
C. O. Hester
Casey
D. B. Neifert
Weiser
Idaho
Reuben Neifert
California
Susan Dickey
Spokane
Wash
Visits and travels noted in Knoxville area
Mrs. Martin Kamerick and son Harold of Fremont Indiana visited the John Kamerick family and returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W G Van der Ploeg and Mr. and Mrs. O L Wright were at Percy last Sunday where Van der Ploeg spoke at a tent meeting. Mrs. Frank Anderson of Los Angeles visited with Minnie Baker and left for Chariton with Dorothy Jane. Steve DeMoss remains in a Des Moines hospital after a slugging attack in a Des Moines alley eight or ten weeks ago, unconscious for a month and still somewhat affected.
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Martin Kamerick
Harold
Fremont
John Kamerick
W. G. van der Ploeg
O. L. Wright
Percy
van der Ploeg
Frank Anderson
Los Angeles
California
Minnie Baker
Chariton
Dorothy Jane
Steve DeMoss
Des Moines
When Her Back Aches A Woman Finds Energy Slipping Away
Local ad extols Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney weakness in Pella residents. A Mrs. S. Korver of 410 University St. testifies the remedy strengthened her back and regulated her kidneys after dull back pains, irregular and fluctuating function. Price 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Pella
S. Korver
Dean
Dairy Products Situation Improves in War Food Drive
Food Administration reports a favorable dairy outlook with 20 million pounds of cheese sold from old stocks to British buyers and butter stocks depleted. Fluid milk use expanded in cities while New York saw a temporary dip in winter consumption, now back to normal. Condensed milk remains less satisfactory but orders rise as shipping space frees. Cheese aids British army rations as a compact, digestible protein substitute for meat.
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Food Administration
New York
The
Daily Thought Winds Favor Able Navigators Quote
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators Gibbons. This concise maxim reflects practical wisdom about preparation, skill, and steadfast strategy guiding success despite natural forces.
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Gibbons
Why We Fight by Clarence L Speed declares war necessity
The piece argues Germany threatened the United States for years through spies, territorial ambition, and violation of treaties. It cites Belgium, Serbia, the Lusitania, and submarine warfare as proof that a German conquest agenda made U.S. entry inevitable and calls for crushing Prussian power to secure world democracy.
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Germany
America
United States
Europe
Serbia
Belgium
Mitteleuropa
Baltic
Persian Gulf
Russia
Kiel Canal
Lusitania
Brazil
Gereman
England
France
Ringling Brothers announce date and wonders of new show
Ringling Brothers plan an August 6 Des Moines engagement with an afternoon and evening performance. The program features the new spectacle In Days of Old with 1,250 actors, 300 dancer's, a thousand sensations, elephants, seals, dogs and monkeys, feats of strength, a three mile street parade, and stars like May Wirth in numerous acts.
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Ringling Brothers
Mammoth Circus
Des Moines
Hfe
Hillary
May Wirth
More Wheat in England Increases GB Acreage
The wheat acreage in Great Britain has risen sharply yet the increased UK yield in 1918 will not lessen the volume the United States and Canada must export. UK 1917 wheat output was 64 million bushels with a roughly 45 percent rise expected in 1918.
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Great Britain
United Kingdom
United States
Canada
Farmer in Woburn Fined Over Damaged Wheat By Rats
A Woburn farmer was fined 250 dollars for allowing a wheat stack to suffer rodent damage. The report notes concern over crop quality as a promise of allied support.
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England
Woburn
Mule wisdom from Uncle Eben hints at hard work
A rural farmer narrator recalls Uncle Eben advising that a mule’s kick grows more unpopular the longer it is provoked. The line opens a tale of early work life as the speaker begins a new job during the first week.
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Eben
Sam’s vase debt and a steady job joke
A pottery shop incident has Sam paying a dollar weekly to cover a ten dollar vase after breaking it. Jokes follow about a mistress helping with cooking and a schoolboy claiming to be a Methodist. A Yorkshire court scene features a donkey’s bray interrupting a defense speech and a witty judge.
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Pottery Shop
Sam
Mannager
Yorkshire
Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy Praised
John F. Jantzen of Delmeny Sask. says he has used Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy in his family and recommends it as an exceptionally fine preparation. F. D. Stubenrauch also endorses the remedy.
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Chamberlain
John F. Jantzen
Delmeny Sask
F. D. Stubenrauch
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Ture
Jimmy
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