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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1916
Page
7
A former student, now in Minnesota, visited Central on Friday. He is identified as a man who attended the school about 23 years ago and is noted as Dr. Jow or Mr. Stringham in the fragmentary OCR.
A long column of notes records numerous visits and movements in Pella and surrounding towns. It notes social calls, Des Moines and Des Moines area trips, hospital checks, and family visits, plus a planned band fundraiser, a graduation trip for J Lankelma, and a baby birth near Pella. Also mentions a smoke nuisance from a power plant and a move to gather funds for park band concerts.
Advertising in this column costs six cents per line per insertion with a ten cent minimum. Classifieds include oil stove for sale, raspberry ordering by phone, and multiple house property for sale in South Pella with prices of 600 1600 and 2000. Also offers exterminator product Rough on Rats and a free comic picture promotion via R E.8 Wells Jersey City N J.
The ad promotes affordable painting supplies as the cheapest defense against building deterioration. It urges customers to choose pure paints from Vander Linden's Bazar to prevent costly repairs.
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