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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
4
A mass meeting for Red Cross support was held at the Otley garage last Monday evening. The Otley Band led the procession to the venue in new white coats and caps, adding to the event’s spirit and appeal. The gathering focused on fundraising and community involvement for relief efforts.
Joyous occasion featured patriotic music and talks by Civil War veteran RR Payne and local ministers in Holland and English. Attendance and generosity exceeded expectations with Otley and Summit township donating $732 to Red Cross, surpassing apportionment and showing strong support for Liberty Loan Bonds and Army Y.M.C.A.
A young woman in a city mercantile house seeks shorthand lessons and recalls her mother cooking a hot midday meal despite hardship. The narrator reflects on mothers’ loving sacrifice, urging appreciation before it’s too late and noting God grants the chance to honor them while they are with us.
A Mother’s Day style tribute laments careless neglect of mothers and urges gratitude. The voice pleads for love, patience, and justice in honoring those who raised us, urging families to cherish mothers and God’s blessing.
A Chicago Daily News poem contemplates Old Glory, contrasting wartime displays of flag and shrapnel scars with a peaceful, gentle breeze. It evokes the flag’s rippling banner and the refrain of victory, peace, and silent guns, celebrating calm after hardship.
Weekly bulletin from the Iowa Weather and Crop Service notes favorable farming weather with normal temperatures overall. Northern counties saw heavy showers and wind squalls causing some crop damage. Corn cultivation advanced, replanting on overflowed lands occurred, oats rye barley and winter wheat headed, alfalfa first cuttings good, hay expected light. Potatoes and garden crops in excellent condition with early potatoes likely. Apples and tree fruits generally good south of central Iowa, lighter in north due to cold rain. Grapes damaged less than feared in Pottawattamie County. A good rain would help in southwestern and south central counties. GEO. M. CHAPPEL, Director.
A fragmented wartime note praises thrift urging saving two cents per meal by every citizen to equal a liberty loan total. It cites Hoover and broad public effort including press ad space and business shutdowns, arguing small daily savings add up to national funding for the loan.
The Fatherless Children of France Society sent $426,000 to France, with $175,000 raised by the Boston committee during a nine day campaign as a tribute to Marshall Joffre on his visit to that city.
An advertisement claims you can earn money at home with easy, permanent profits. No risk and self-built business offered under L. Brown, 66 Murray & New York City, asking for name, address and one reference.
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