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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1932
Page
4
Weekly survey gathers opinions on the Republican National Convention action on the Eighteenth Amendment from five locals. Voices range from critique of mixed signals to firm support for strict enforcement and protest that politics overrides principle.
Six weeks after Dick Den Adel left his engraved fountain pen at a post office desk it vanished. The Chronicle published his appeal and a front page note about rewarding an intermediary. The finder, unaware of ownership, returned the $10 pen, and Den Adel was relieved and grateful.
Funeral services for R. J. Baker were held at his Oskaloosa home with Rev. G. G. Bruce in charge. Burial followed in Forest Cemetery. Baker, formerly of New Sharon and stock buyer by trade, died Thursday morning at 709 A Avenue East. Survived by wife Inez, children Grover, Robert, Howard, and sisters Grace and Belle. He had been ill after a chest and back injury from a train collision at Beacon road crossing.
Clarence Mathes of the southwest vicinity has been seriously ill for a week with a high fever. Mrs Bartus Klyn in an Oskaloosa hospital is reported considerably better. Clara Plette broke her left arm Wednesday evening. Joe Spranda, after an Iowa City hospital toe amputation, goes to Andrew Bandstra’s home in Peoria for recovery before returning home. Mary Meulpolder’s daughter had a tonsil operation last week. A quoted exchange references a Western Union clock in town.
A local committee conducted classes and an essay contest for temperance and health education among schoolchildren. The top three essays, by Audrey Leonard, Harold Sherman, Bernice Vanderinden, and others, argue tobacco and alcohol harms, with dialogues and testimonies stressing nicotine dangers, financial waste, and impact on athletic and academic performance.
A Nutritious list states eggs are economical and plentiful and easy to prepare. They document eggs as sources of vitamin D and A, calcium and phosphorous for teeth, iron, and complete protein. Health professionals endorse them daily.
Advertising can boost a store's business when paired with fair truthful messaging, well merchandised goods, attentive service, and modern merchandising methods. It demands consistency and quality, not sporadic effort, and has built countless businesses from the ground up across the nation.
A declarative critique of self styled holier than others, noting teachers in pulpit school and home who speak with smooth rhetoric about blessedness while failing to embody it. The piece underscores humility, consistent conduct, and the duty of educators to model genuine virtue rather than moralizing.
A speaker criticizes Mercy and unmerciful behavior, condemning a church figure who preaches well but fails to pay debts. He urges Christians to balance preaching with consistent practice, stating deeds convert more than words and that sanctimony harms more than it helps.
A stage chat turns to a comic confrontation as the hero learns the papers are at the blacksmith. The villain boasts they are being filed rather than forged, revealing a harmless ruse rather than a crime.
A collage of ads sells the No 13 Lighter lighter weight and Hoover vacuums under a Silver Jubilee banner while promotions tout 4 50 down on new value Hoovers. Other items include flashlight cells 2 for 15c 3 for 20c and a 18 pound Heavy Duty B Battery for 1 95. A humorous child tale about nuts and a street cop dialogue closes the page.
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