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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1931
Page
10
CAPT. BARKER reports summer weather arriving in Harvey Iowa as corn planting proceeds amid dry warmth. The piece notes unusually quiet skies, discussing lightning and thunder absence, local tree foliage varied by frost, and mentions residents relocating, a missing hotel in Harvey, and local schooling and farm activity. It also covers health data and disease rates in Iowa.
Eighth grade graduates from Peoria in May visited Oskaloosa for photo sessions at Kelly studio. The article lists many local residents and relatives visiting, traveling to Michigan for graduation, and family updates including health and visits to Chicago and Omaha.
May 18 report from Cordovia Indiana notes Charley Ford and family visiting the Dewey Ford home near Monroe. Church attendance at Knoxville Christian Church followed by farm shipments from Howell: a 70 head hog shipment to St. Louis by Farm Union of Pella, with prior hogs to St. Louis and cattle to Chicago, and a stop at the De Goey residence.
Otley Iowa May 18 Mr S Van der Wiel died at his Otley home Thursday morning after a long illness He leaves a wife and three children Mrs Kinas Van Buren Otley Mrs Gerrit Klyn near Fifield and Miss Johanna Vander Wiel at home Many relatives and friends attended the funeral at the home and Christian Reformed church Interment was at Oakwood cemetery Also noted were several local family visits and birthday gatherings including M Aalbers 65th birthday with many relatives present and a long list of neighbors and friends.
In Knoxville on May 20 six years ago T E Doc Cooley cut his foot with an axe while logging hickory. The deep wound was treated by a physician and the recovery remained incomplete for years, with ongoing pain and lingering effects noted in local records.
Des Moines May 20 Special The week just past was eventful for Iowa inventors with twenty patents granted by Barr Freeman Sinclair list Prof Orland R Sweeney Ames Iowa State College received fifth patent in two months on a process using corn products in building materials Geo A Drew Des Moines assigned to American Telephone and Telegraph Co for a ticket distributing system for toll calls belt conveyance controller stops ticket at desired place Other patent owners include Betenga Marshalltown heating apparatus Bishop Waterloo piston gauge Burke Des Moines phonograph attachment Einfeldt Davenport traction wheel Harner Cedar Falls pumping device Hurst Maquaket drag harrow Lighty Edgewood coin holder Mikalasek Newton washing machine drive Platt Ottumwa signaling device Ronk Cedar Rapids excavator bucket Shranger Atlantic screen construction Snyder Newton driving mechanism Lighty again engine piston Wherry Zearing internal combustion engine Williams Marshalltown scrap cutter
The Iowa Health Department reports provisional 1930 death data from 1926–30 across eighteen causes. Iowa’s overall death rate rose to 10.6 from 1927’s 10.1, driven by increases in accident and maternity deaths, with cancer continuing to rise. Measles deaths hit 7.9 in 1930, near a multi-year high, often linked to broncho pneumonia. Early vigilance for adults over 50 is urged.
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