Tulip Time Parade Showcases Pella Child Costumes
Colorful Tulip Time festival in Pella features thousands of children in Dutch style costumes with baggy trousers lace hoods and wooden shoes. Orphans in somber gowns mark the parade while teenagers perform operetta and folk dances to band music amid crowds and photography across the city.
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Pella
Holland
Bonnie Kuyper
Mrs
Julian
Bob)Kuyper
North Broadway
Pella Tulip Time Charms Visitors and Local Notes
Children charm visitors to Pella's Tulip Time while local notes highlight Marion County State Bank of Pella as the county's newest bank. The snippet mentions kit form electric shavers, polar temperature comparisons, raincoat hats, subsurface oil discoveries, flavored straws, and Canada's metal exports for world trade context.
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Pella
North Pole
Earth
Adopting Grown Child Into Home Brings Problems
A University of Iowa Psychological Department release discusses adopting a fourteen year old boy, Ted, into a couple's home. Joe and Fanny Brown debate handling, avoiding fuss or coldness, learning from the teen, and letting him adjust to new routines while showing genuine warmth. They emphasize calm, steady acceptance over sentimentality to help him feel at home.
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University of Iowa
Joe Brown
Fanny
Joe
Pella’s First Marion County Bank History
Pella organized the first bank in Marion county, the Pella Savings Institution, in 1867 by John Nolsen and H. P. Scholte. After Civil War, J. F. Neal and Larkin Wright started a Knoxville brokerage and banking firm, later the Banking House of Larkin Wright. Wright organized the old Marion County bank in 1868, which became Knoxville National Bank in 1871 and later consolidated with Citizens National Bank in 1927.
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Pella
Marion County
Pella Savings Institution
John Nolsen
H. P. Scholte
J. F. Neal
Larkin Wright
Knoxville
Knoxville National Bank
Citizens National Bank
Banks Form In Iowa From 1882 To 1931 With Several Closures
A historical list notes banks organized in Iowa towns from 1882 through 1914, including Citizens bank of Pleasantville Farmers Security bank of Percy and Citizens National bank of Knoxville. Several institutions later merged or closed, with Security bank of Pella dissolving Oct 17 1931 amid the era’s bank failures.
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Citizens Bank of
Pleasantville
Farmers Security Bank of
Percy
Citizens National Bank of
Knoxville
Bank of Bussey
Security Bank of
Pella
First National Bank of
Columbia Savings Bank
Iowa State Savings Bank of
People’s Bank of Dallas
Melcher
First Trust and Savings Bank of
Har
Otley Bank
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John Res
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Phyl Hemert
Vera de Vries
Betty Dingeman
Carol Ver Steeg
Maxine Rinehart
Betty Jo Shaw
Coleen Renaud
the Prince
Princess and the
Seven Dwarves
Tulip Bowl
Snow ‘White
the Seven Dwarves
Metha Hoekstra
Lloyd Kerr
Marlene Joan Intveld
Janet Kay Palmer
Yella
Jimmy
Priscilla
Duane
Paul
Dan Diane
Dan Dingeman
Marvin
Jean
Herschel
Bettys
Marion County State Bank of
Science
Canada
J. Nollen’ and
The
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