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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1933
Page
1
Editorial urges municipal and county officers to enforce state prohibitions on unusually bright or single headlights. The writer recounts a Main street drive where glare obscured the depot and laments widespread inside-run lighting. Calls for enforcement or repeal if the law is flawed to improve safety for drivers and pedestrians.
Our sympathy goes to farmers who wait for promised relief while feeling it is being taken away. Leaders boast agriculture as the basic industry yet fail to deliver real relief, driving some to desperate acts to save their homes. The piece urges legitimate measures to secure relief before agriculture faces doom.
The speaker laments cruel or unjust laws and urges modification or repeal, but asserts that officers must enforce current laws until they are changed. He emphasizes that elected officials swear to uphold the constitution and that an officer is an instrument of the law, deserving broad support despite personal views.
The piece urges rewarding loyal Democratic supporters with federal posts. It argues long-serving party workers deserve recognition, especially privates who funded campaigns and worked as speakers, while warning against office seekers who switch loyalties for personal gain. It calls for thorough loyalty checks before appointments.
An Ohio Grand Lodge directive bans Masons from selling beer with suspension for violations. The piece argues against church member bias toward fraternal orders and questions church discipline of members who sell alcohol, urging consistency in applying standards across churches and lodges.
The passage argues that lodges and churches are distinct in character but can teach valuable lessons. It suggests applying themselves now to learn from these bodies. It notes ongoing procedures may affect the right to criticise lodges and emphasizes the potential for reform through study of lodge example.
A collage of editorials critiques temperance progress, daylight saving time, and economic policy. The Indianola record condemns liquor trade as ever in social regard while praising editors who expose it. Prairie City urges farmer unity to rebuild agriculture and national strength, citing Roosevelt’s leadership and the dangers of misdirected action.
The W C T U urges reflection on when liquor traffic can be respectable or legitimate. It argues legislation cannot convert vice into virtue and questions if repeal of Prohibitory Amendment by states will bring reform. The note emphasizes crime, poverty, and spiritual decay tied to drinking, asking when transformation will occur.
In this Week in Pella column, readers share humorous notes and anecdotes. Citizens from Oskaloosa and surrounding areas recount miscommunications with editors, police, and editors’ department labels, along with quips about beer, garb age notes, golf handicaps, and a lampooned letter from a local resident about the Egyptian army in rumors. The snippets showcase small town humor and community chatter across several editors and editors’ desks.
The Jasper County record notes the new beer law is a joke and criticizes the attorney general for absurd interpretations. His office claimed that a small amount of salt or another glass of beer could satisfy the food-with-beer requirement, making the office seem a humorist in office.
President Roosevelt delivered a Sunday night address praised by Democrats and Republicans. He outlined reconstruction plans and presented a seven week stewardship summary, insisting his policies align with the constitutional purpose established 150 years ago.
Dr. F. P. Carpenter spoke of a coincidence after recalling a hospital unit member from the Spanish American War in San Francisco. He wondered about Ned, later learning Dr. Hodgson of Downs, Kansas, had written the day the Carpenters learned his whereabouts. Internal note: 500 sheets yellow second sheets for 40c.
A brief note traces the Flight O'Tyme entry across two historic chronicles dated 1903 and 1913, highlighting its appearance in an early aviation record. The item notes the sequence and context of the dates within the period’s chronicle collection.
A digest of 1903 events from West Liberty and nearby towns notes a depot crowd attack leaving a man shot, seven men robbed, a college semi centennial planned for 1908, and world attention on massacres in Russia. Mentions Bryan opposing Cleveland, injuries from a runaway horse, local hires and business changes, depot thefts, and hardships of early Iowa travel.
A series of Otley and nearby area happenings from twenty years ago includes Fred Lankelma and Miss Leland Sadler’s marriage at the Baptist parsonage officiated by Dr. J. W. Bailey. A lightning strike destroyed D Cummings' house on Huber street, though contents survived. Local births, deaths, injuries, and civic notes cover marriage licenses, utility outreach, medical issues, and school activities.
A reminiscence recalls the old four horse stage coach era on the Old Divide from Keokuk to Fort Des Moines. The drivers persisted day and night through stirring times as the star of empire moved westward, with stations sometimes troubled by frost.
F. A. Miller, president and editor of the South Bend Tribune, extols doing for others as a supreme happiness. He argues selfishness blocks that happiness, notes lack of recipient appreciation should not stop good deeds, and calls self-centered living sinful with unpleasant rewards.
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