Pella's First Telephone Arrives At City Switchboard
Walter Fowler sits at Pella’s first telephone switchboard installed in 1900, housed above Wm. Van Sittert's store at Main and Franklin. He had earlier linked private lines from his Central College campus home, inspiring campus chatter and a poem by A. B. Van Zante read in 1898.
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Walter Fowler
Pella
James Lankelma
Wm. van Sittert
Main
Franklin Streets
Commercial Exchange
Pus
Walter
Literary Society
Philo Society
A. B. van Zante
Love Through a Telephone Parody in an Iowa Village
A narrative poem set in an Iowa town about a youth who pursues love via a strange device, a girl from Pella, and the consequences as campus and household watchers warn against the plan. The tale follows their longing, the warning, a detective chase for culprits, and the protagonist’s vow to seek justice while reflecting on the risks and lessons learned.
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Iowa
Iowa's First Bank Organized in 1837 Miners' Bank of Dubuque
Congress approved the charter of the Miners' Bank of Dubuque on March 3 1837 following a 1836 grant by the Wisconsin Territorial legislature. The bank operated until 1849 as Iowa's only incorporated bank until after the 1857 Constitution.
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Congress
Miners’ Bank of
Miners’ Bank
Iowa
Pella
Central Park
John F
Dena) van Gorp
Alydia Ver Meer
Sandridge Beats Silver Grove 24 21 In Webster Gym Game
Sandridge School defeated Silver Grove 24 to 21 in a basketball game held March 4 at Webster School gym. Sandridge lineup included De Ruiter Butler Van Haaften Van Gorp Bandstra Van Steenis. teacher Mrs. Tuinstra. Silver Grove featured Nollen Nollen Hiemstra Roose Van Ham Roorda Rankin Kuiper. teacher Mrs. Van Hemert. Referees were Jerry Ulrich and Jim Redeker.
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Sandridge
Silver Grove
Webster School
Robert de Ruiter
Dean Butler
Norman van Haaften
Loren van Gorp
Gloria Bandstra
Vivian van Steenis
Betty Tuinstra
Stanley Nollen
Kenneth Nollen
John Hiemstra
Gerald Roose
Phoebe van Ham
Jean Roorda
Linda Rankin
Harris Kuiper
Deep Gully Transformed Into A Clean Waterway In Jasper County
A Jasper County project led by James L. Paul converted a 12 ft gully near Gilman into a stable waterway using reeds canary grass sod. A bulldozer reshaped the area, a diversion kept overflow out, and sod from an old planting plus extra seed was spread. The area is now smooth, provides grazing for dairy cows, and reduces hazard to nearby buildings and water supply. Planting Reed Hay offers methods to establish dense sod cover and stabilize silt flow.
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James L. Paul
Gilman
Jasper County
Steaks or Fillets How to cook fish by cut and method
Jewel Graham Iowa State College extension nutritionist outlines fish cooking tips with differences between steaks and fillets, counts for haddock and salmon steaks, deviled ocean perch, and molded perch salad. Tips include broiling fillets skin-side down, brushing lemon butter, turning steaks, and using foil for easy handling.
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Jewel Graham
Iowa State College Extension
Graham
Miss Graham
Olives and Gelatin Molded Salad Prep Note
A recipe fragment describes soaking olives in gelatin, dissolving salt, adding boiling water, cooling, blending salad dressing with lemon juice, combining ingredients, and molding the mix to chill until firm.
Egg Production in Howe Surges in February
Iowa farm flocks produced an estimated 487 million eggs in February, a 2 percent rise from February 1954 and a record for the month in 31 years. Town flocks averaged 1,621 eggs per 100 layers, a February record, with 26,054,000 layers in farm flocks. Farm flocks laid 5,518 million eggs in February, about equal to January and above last year, with an output rate of 14.6 eggs per layer.
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Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Poultry Flock Eggs Output Dips Amid Cold Weather
The report notes overall egg-laying activity affected by cold weather with February yields for the Nation's laying flock at about 879.19 million eggs, up 2 percent from last February but 2 percent below the longer average. Prices received by term producers for eggs in mid-January are mentioned.
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Philo
Cook Hall
Greenland
Niacin
Strand
East Flist Street
Pella Public Square
van der Zyl and
van Wyk
Elbert van Maanen
Howe
Elmost
Frank
Will McClintock
Marcus
Sioux Falls
Brom’s
Austra
Orca
Ames Incross
Calif
Brom Hatchery
Polia la
Frigioaure
LT Music House
T.H. Klein Mayer
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