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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1936
Page
3
Chicago market notes from local produce dealers list prices for cream, wheat, rye, oats, corn and hogs with quotes on small lots and reasonable prices. Vendors at West Franklin Street advertise grain and hog prices and solicit small can buyers.
Local classified page lists poultry culling services with worming and delousing for 1.25 per 100, plus worm powder and tablets. Also adverts for insurance rates, farm equipment, paper, walls, beauty services, used cars, tractors, and hardware store items. Names include Brem’s Wormer, Harold Sack, Van Houwelingen Auto Co, Ulrich Motor Co, and Van Gorp among others. Several phone numbers and locations appear for Pella, Otley, and nearby areas.
A fragment mentions Ontra Cafe on East Side Square inviting patrons to dine all day Sunday. The text includes garbled lines about traders, prices, and cattle figures with various numbers and units and references to 1962 walking schedules, but the core readable fact is the cafe invitation on the East Side Square.
A new romantic team led by Franchot Tone and Marge Evans opens the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama Exclusive Story at the Princess Theatre in Oskaloosa for a three day run starting Sunday March 8. The film dramatizes the life of New York journalist Martin Mooney and the crusade against the policy racket with Tone and Evans in lead roles, supported by a large cast including Stuart Erwin and Joseph Calleia. Local notes report accompanying basketball results and numerous town visits by residents, with community updates throughout.
Local notes recount visits and movements among residents of Pella Monroe and Knoxville. Entries mention families and individuals with brief travel, gatherings, sales, and sports events, including a county basketball tournament where Monroe lost both games to Colfax and another opponent.
The piece lists Monroe An deweg Grocery proprietor Monroe Jack Andeweg confined to home for two weeks with serious illness and threat of pneumonia. It records visitors in Pella including Mrs Walter Van Doorninck and children, Miss Katie Vriezelaar, Miss Lois Rietveld, and Mrs Vander Ploeg in Newton. It also mentions various local residents, travel between farms in Marion County, a hospital transfer to Iowa City, and a large turnout at a local Preliminary State Declaratory Contest with multiple divisions and winners in Oratorical, Dramatic, and Humorous categories.
The community notes a warm spell as snow melts and creeks run high. Residents and visitors share journeys to Oskaloosa Pella and Pella trips, church visits, and family illnesses with updates on neighbors, a new occupant moving in March, and upcoming services weather permitting.
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