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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
7
Cleopatra used to dissolve pearls in her wine there are dollars dissolved in our soda water. No soda ever made cost more than ours. Dozens of popular flavors at 5 cents. Our soda goes to the spot and drowns thirst. 10 cents—you'll understand why if you notice the amount of ice cream served in each glass. It is a healthful thirst quencher. Our fancy mixed egg drinks are as good as a whole meal.
The Sunday school convention drew about 200 attendees, with around 150 from outside Pella. Mrs. Charles Firth and her daughter Margaret spent Friday in Des Moines.
John Van Rheenen attends niece Lamoyne Van Rheenen’s high school graduation in New Sharon. Local commerce reports steady auto sales including Overland touring cars to Gerrit H. Fennema EB Tysseling and Dick Van Houweling and a Ford touring car to Abram Den Adel. Community updates mention visitors from Des Moines Ottumwa Los Angeles and Boston. Special sales and events advertise a June 28 men’s Blucher oxfords sale at 2 to 6 PM and chicken dinners at the People’s Cafe.
Moves and visits mark weekend social scene in Pella area. Van Niewaal and family relocate to Des Moines for Henry’s promotion. relatives host visits before settlement. Douwstra and Thomassen depart for Newkirk and Albert Lea after stays with friends. Various locals report weather and small agricultural updates among names like Ulrich, Mowe, Vander Ploeg, Frush, Otten, Dykstra, McNaught, and Houck.
A Newton resident, Mrs. A. Jackson, testifies Doan's Kidney Pills relieved distressing backaches and loins pain. The ad urges readers to treat kidney roots for relief, noting the product is sold by all dealers for 50 cents and manufactured by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY, sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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