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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1914
Page
7
A chimney fire at Mrs. L Richardson’s West First Street home was alarming but the Des Moines fire department found no blaze to fight. The community notes numerous local visits, travel, and small changes as residents plan spring errands and health visits, with several families sending members to hospitals or moving for new jobs and schooling.
The weather report compiled by John H. VerSteeg cooperative observer for the Weather Bureau lists weekly temperature readings and atmospheric observations for the period ending March 24 1914. Data includes temperatures and conditions recorded across stations under the U S Department of Agriculture.
Jim DeWit visited Prairie City on Tuesday. Mrs. John Nollen visited children in Des Moines on Friday. George Liter and John Liter were business visitors in Ottumwa on Friday. Sam Vanden Berg of Fifield visited friends in Pella earlier this week. Miss Henrietta VerHeul of New Sharon high school faculty visited over Sunday at her home in Pella. VerPloeg’s fruit tree ad is recommended this week.
In the upper Kuruk and Noatak regions and Colville headwaters, Eskimo taboos on mountain sheep ribs shift with age and childbirth. A young girl eats limited ribs, grown women adjust after each child, and bans vary with illness and kin health. Rates depend on who killed the animal and its sex, as described by V Stefansson in Harper's Magazine.
M. Vander Linden advertises 500 kinds of all wool suitings priced at 15 cents per yard for custom orders. Blues, blacks, browns, greys and more are available at the same rate, highlighting variety and value for tailored fabric.
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