Interesting Weekly News from Nearby Communities
Rev H Veldman of Pella and Cecil Vander Molen visited the Coen Stowie home. The Ladies Aid Bazaar sold items at high prices. Numerous residents were noted at various homes and events in Pella and nearby areas. Mrs Ben Vander Molen celebrated her 72nd birthday with family and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartin Vander Molen
Adrain Vos
John L. Veenstra
Cecil
Louis
Garret Vander Molen
R. Nieusma
John W. Veenstra
Richard Veenstra
William Nibbelink
Weidenaar
Rense Nieusma
Ben ‘Ander Molen
John W. Stursma
George
L. J. Reose
Margaret
John Sterk
Garret Nieusma
Paul Nieusma
Rene Klooster
Henry Bosveld
Tenus Bokhoven
Peoria
Piet Boerfijn
Tracy
M. Franje
Henrietta
Pella
Janet de Jong
A. C. de Jong
Henry Nieusma Sr
Wm. Osinga
Wiebe de Vries
Herman Vos
Bert Nibbelink
Piet Langstraat
Adrian Vos
Martin
Anna
Willie Vander Melen
Louise Vander Hart
Johnnie Blom
Johanna Blom
Piet Westercamp
Ben Vander Molen Sr
George Dear
Fremont
Michigan
Herman Veldman
John ‘W. Stursma
Grand Rapids
Mich
Assis
Herman Bokhoven
Martin Vander Melen
Piet de Jong
Knoxville
John A. Roose
Suday
Wm. de Jong
Patterson
N. J
William de Jong
Sam van Rheenen
John Ryke
Garret Ryke
John P. de Jong
Walter van Wyngarden
Garret de Jong
George Hunt
Leighton Party Highlights Local Social Circle
Miss Rena Meppelink hosted a Leighton gathering for nieces Lorena De Bruin of Oskaloosa and Wilma Van Duren of Peoria with a large group of relatives and friends. Attendees included Esther Overbergen Ruth De Heer and many De Bruin Van Haaften and Van Roekel family members. The event featured games, a two course lunch, and plans for upcoming visits to Chicago for the Worlds Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rena Meppelink
Lorena de Bruin
Oskaloosa
Wilma van Duren
Peoria
Mrs. H. Meppelink
Leighton
Esther Overbergen
Ruth de Heer
Lucille Ver Ploeg
Mary Irene de Cook
Chicago
Iowa Farm Bureau
Janella van Maanen
Rene Vroom
Pella
Connie Vestrate
Sison
Michigan
Henry den Hartog
L. C. van Roekel
Frances de Bruin
Raymond den Hartog
Ray
Paul van Roekel
Mary Jane Vroom
Charlotte
Bernice van Maanen
Ray N. Hoksbergen
Gerrit A. Hasselman
L. Overbergen
Joseph van Haaften
Joseph
John van Zuuk
Stephen de Kock
Mildred de Reus
Cornie de Bruin
Ronald Ean
H. Overbergen
Cornie van Engelhoven
J. Meppelink
H. Kuperus
C. Witt
Iowa City
John Vander Wal
J. A. de Jong
Amaryllis
Elma van Heukelem
Minnesota
Willing Workers Society
Elva Brummel
Edna Brummel
Junella van Maanen
Gertrude Vander Haar
Porterville Social Notes Include Visits From Nearby Families
Porterville residents share weekend visits and shopping trips as many neighbors visit each other. Connie Vanden Baard suffers a foot fracture during a Porterville Stars vs Porterville Pickups game. Families from Pella Oskaloosa and Knoxville appear in a string of social calls and appearances at local homes and events.
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Antoinette
Mary Jane Monster
Connie van den Baard
Will Sytsma
Glen, Eugene and
Paul
Near Leighton
John Kamerick
Anna van Dene
Murray Sytsma
W. A. Jansen
Connie Vanden Baard
Dick Goement
Mabel
Maxine Robertus
Pelia
Huber van der Lyde
Henry Wielard
Gertrude
Johanna
W. J. Monster
Dorothy Mao
Gerald
Marion
Knoxville
Porterville Stars
Porterville
Cornie Naaktgeboren
Cornie Jr
Pella
Henry de Zwarte
Bastian Goemaat
Henry van Oene
Dirk Goma
Oskaloosa
Will Monster
Mary Jane
Dorothy Mae
Lane Monster
Arie Wielard
Boob Mart
University Park
One Way Banking Of 1933 Victin Ts
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a bank opening for unspecified purposes. The text mentions a cashier and an implied prohibition or caution, with garbled phrases about policies and a call to action. Readable elements reference a bank, cashier, and dates but lack clear events or outcomes.
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Victin
Smiobey
Sunday Dinner Menu Suggestions for a Budget Week
This piece highlights economical menus from Quaker Maid Kitchen featuring meat options like poultry beef pork and lamb. It lists dishes such as Hamburg Cakes with Mustard Mashed Potatoes Green Beans and Orange Custard with coffee or tea and notes seasonable fruits like strawberries oranges and rhubarb.
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Quaker Maid Kitchen
Hamburg
How Do Hoboes Eat How the young hobo eats and survives
The piece describes hoboes begging at private homes bakeries restaurants and institutions for meals. It notes a jungle camp beside rail lines where improvised kitchens washrooms and sleeping areas exist and contrasts this with the humiliation of soup lines as a last resort. It asserts many youths register under false names to inflate counts and cites estimates around three to four million on the road.
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Joe Harkness
Va‘grant
Home at Ardsley After Five Months of Wandering
The narrator recalls reaching their Ardsley Pennsylvania home after five weary months of wandering. They describe boys who looked like themselves, distressed, hungry, tired, and ragged, whose haunting images linger in memory.
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Ardsley
Iowa State Fair to offer $70,000 in premiums
Des Moines May 10 The 1938 Iowa State Fair will offer nearly $70,000 in premiums for livestock farm products and 4-H exhibits according to advance estimates by Secretary A R Corey. The list includes $2,000 for 4-H, $15,920 for cattle, $8,380 for horses, $6,962 for swine and $4,867 for agricultural products with emphasis on better livestock breeding management and economical crop production.
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Des Moines
Iowa
A. R. Corey
Weather dictionary of terms used by the Weather Bureau
The piece explains what common forecast terms mean from clear to snow flurries and notes that weather forecasts average about 85 percent accuracy nationwide. It lampoons the weather man while stating the public has a standing joke about forecasts being wrong but generally accurate.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Odd Facts From Across the Nation
A collection of statistics notes Massachusetts flags made by convict labor and farmers using about two percent of motor fuel in tractors. It also claims African Americans run more than twenty insurance firms, 25 000 acres of denuded land were reforested, auto deaths fell eighteen percent in 1982, U S gold bonds total about 86 billion dollars, and world gold totals 11 billion. Alaska if divided among inhabitants would give 10.7 square miles per person, vs 18 acres if allocated in the United States. An Atlantic City auditorium organ is described as the largest in the world.
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United States
Alaska
United Proper
Helpful Household Hints From A bygone column
A drafty compilation offers do it yourself tips such as a linseed oil and turpentine floor finish, avoiding abrasives on nickel plate, hot polish with whiting and ammonia, and a kitchen hack to mix various jellies into marmalade. It also notes using an inverted baking powder can for chopping potatoes and washing sponges with warm soapy water and borax.
Salaries of Life Insurance Executivesface Senate Criticism
Senator Robinson exposed large salary hikes for executives at Equitable, Metropolitan, Mutual Life, and New York Life, citing 1929 to present increases while Prudential kept salaries steady. He linked the issue to protecting policyholders and contrasted with state budget cuts in North Carolina affecting teachers and public workers amid economic downturn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Senate
Robinson
Indiana
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Norris
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Mutual Life Insurance Company
New York Life Insurance Company
Prudential Life Insurance Company
North Carolina
Farm radios greatly decreased in Iowa farms
Reports from township assessors released by the Weather and Crop Bureau of the Iowa Department of Agriculture show farm radios in operation fell 29.2 percent in the year ending January 1, 1988. About one Iowa farm in three has a radio set. discontinuance reflects cash readiness and replacement parts needs amid sluggish farm product marketing.
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Weather and Crop Bureau
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Roosevelt economy clash over pay cuts prompt senator critique
The passage notes President Roosevelt using special powers to cut federal government salaries by fifteen percent and implement other economies while Senator Robinson accuses big business executives of raising pay to unprecedented levels in the nation's current prosperity.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Robinson
United States
Decreased Spring Pig Breeding Noted in Iowa 1933 Report
Lows bred for spring pigs fell 2.4 percent from 1932 per Weather and Crop Bureau notes summarized by the Iowa Department of Agriculture. Markets show more heavy sows sold before brooding. most sows that farrowed are younger and less mature, likely reducing pigs saved per litter. Unfavorable spring conditions delayed pastures, despite abundant corn, and Iowa’s hog market influence remains strong as it accounts for about 27 percent of U.S. hogs.
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Weather and Crop Bureau
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Iowa
United States
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