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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
4
The text outlines a comprehensive school health program by competent physicians. It recommends twice monthly inspections during epidemics, treating defects, isolating contagious cases, improving ventilation and water, using individual drinking cups, and reporting illnesses to health authorities. It emphasizes prevention, hygiene, and community responsibility to curb contagion.
A health-focused editorial describes how tuberculosis attacks all ages and spreads in families through shared utensils and close contact. It urges outdoor life, fresh air, isolation of contagious children from public settings, and early use of tuberculin while noting other factors like age climate occupation and immunity influence disease spread. It also covers diphtheria vaccination, antitoxins, and the need for reporting contagious cases to control outbreaks.
Margaret Marie Awtry, daughter of Mr and Mrs Emmett Awtry of Sully and niece of R A Awtry of Pella, died at home on Friday June 12 1914 aged 14 years 9 months 3 days after months of illness and unsuccessful kidney surgery followed by cancerous growth. Services were held at 11.
On Monday at the Sully M. E. church the interment took place at Lynnville. Attending from Pella were R. A. Awtry and family A. G. VanZee and family and John VanHemert and family. O. P. Awtry of Eddyville and Mrs Carrie Awtry of Prairie City also attended coming to Pella and driving over.
Tribune notes a party at Nick Maaskant's farm attracting thirty nine young people from the countryside south of Eddyville. Ice cream and cake were shared and the gathering ended with a general good time.
The farm sold for as much as 227 50 per acre, about five dollars more per acre than the price six to eight weeks earlier. Mr and Mrs Henry VenderKieft of Pella visited their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs J Stam west of town on Tuesday.
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