New Colony Brooders Expand Capacity for Whole House Heating
Local notes report Van Zante Bros offering poultry supplies and a regulator enabled brooder heaters to maintain even temperatures. Josephine Gift Shop promotes Easter cards and remembrances. Frank Pohlman builds a dead hog disposal plant near Pella operated by W L Carico. state license covers disposal of dead animals. Marion Veenstra marries Marjorie Grier on February 22 in Cincinnati. congratulations from The Chronicle. Easter cards featured with variety and reasonable prices.
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New Colony
van Zante Bros
Frank Pohlman
Montezuma
Pella
W. L. Carico
Oskaloosa
Marion Veenstra
Marjorie Grier
Cincinnati
Ohio
Marion
Wagner Electric Corporation
Chronicle
Sein
Pleasantville Co op Exchange entertains farmers and business folks
On March 22 the Pleasantville Farmers Co operative Exchange hosted over 100 for dinner as about 200 heard a talk on Co operative Marketing by Mr Kelly of the Chicago Producers Commission Co. Prizes for the top cream delivery went to H Glasgow 280 pounds C P Horsman 186 pounds and L C Jordan third. For eggs C second L L Burch 103 dozens and Eric Blake 78. Prizes included 50 baby chicks 50 and 10 pounds of chicken feed. Mrs George Rinehart won 50 pounds of feed for best egg guess in a tub though her exact guess is unclear in the fragments.
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Pleasantville Farmers’ Co-operative Exchange
Mr. Kelly
Chicago Producers’ Commission Co
H. Glasgow
C. P. Horsman
L. C. Jordan
L. L. Burch
Eric Blake
George Rinehart
Lost cameo brooch finder urged to return
Mrs. D. C. Renaud asks for the return of a lost cameo brooch. A reward is offered for its safe recovery.
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D. C. Renaud
Essex Front
Bun Finder
Dora Sybenga’s Bakery
Pleasantville Cooperative Supports Local Community
The Pleasantville Exchange stands as one of the county’s oldest Farmers' Cooperatives and delivers real service to residents, strengthening the local economy and helping farmers with practical support and resources.
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Pleasantville Exchange
County
Glee Club Tour Through Illinois and Michigan
An eastern tour by a college glee club spans four days from dawn departures to concerts in Oskaloosa Fulton Chicago Kalamazoo. The group receives warm hospitality, shares meals, and performs at nine churches with strong local support, especially in Fulton and Kalamazoo, where audiences total about 900.
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Oskaloosa
Rock Island
Davenport
Fulton
Ill
Steunenberg
Chicago
Chet
Van
Beckering
Poppen
Steanie
Pwai
Y. M
Beck
Professor Strachan
Prof
Glee Club
Leonard
Steunie
Laurel
Michigan Central Railroad
Kalamazoo
Lincoln High
George Flikkema
Reuben de Haan
Heeren
Ellerbroek
Cornelius Vander Hart
Cornelia Blom
Henry Franken
Geo, Muyskens
Peter Dahm
Misa Clara Reeverta
Mra. Reeverts
Henry Walkotten
Central
Separators Celebrate 80th Anniversary
The article recalls the 80th anniversary of the cream separator, noting that prior methods wasted large amounts of butterfat. It credits Dr Gus De Laval with inventing the continuous flow centrifugal separator in 1887, replacing hand skimming and rising cream in pans.
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Gusff de Laval
Rise of the dairy industry and the Babcock test
The excerpt notes that in 1927 dairy products fueled a large market with farm value reaching 2.76 billion dollars in the United States and that 20 cents of the typical family food dollar went to dairy goods. It recalls the Babcock test for butterfat, developed after the cream separator, as a pivotal advancement, and mentions Dr De Leval contemplating cream separation by centrifugal force.
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Tor
United States
de Leval
Twin sons cited in debt case testimony in St Louis
George T. Endre of St Louis testified that the arrival of twin sons hindered his ability to pay debts for which he was sued. The account notes his struggle followed by mention of early creamery separators run by treadmills in a separate line.
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George T. Endre
St. Louis
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Josephine
Helen Kuyper
Adel
Leona Davidson
John Heerema
Newton
Pleasantville
Chronicle Office
John S. Menninga
A. C. Kuyper
van Houweling Auto CO
Otley
Lewis Tuinstra
Monroe
Pella Motor CO
Columbus
de Voe Paints
Devoe
Vander Linden
Rexall Store
Wormhoudt & Plette
Pella, Iowa
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