Local Teacher Believes Public School Modernizes Well
Miss Dora Bootsma, longtime Webster and Lincoln school principal since 1910, argues modern schooling feels more like a family and emphasizes practical outcomes. She notes updated textbooks, broader subjects, and junior high offerings in manual training domestic science music and science.
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Dora Bootsma
Webster School
Misa Bootsma
Lincoln
Webster
Bootsma
Pella
Central College
Des Moines University
Mama
Papa
Senior Class Picnic At Red Rock
The Senior class of the High School and Mrs. Richardson held a picnic at Red Rock on Wednesday afternoon. About forty pupils explored cliffs and some swam despite light rain. Not all had returned when the paper went to press, but the group hoped for a pleasant trip.
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Red Rock
Like Parents Like Children in School Attitudes
Miss Jennie Harmsen a Webster school fifth grade teacher with 27 years in city schools notes a shift in parental attitudes toward education since the early 90s. She recalls indifferent habits before compulsory schooling and a more engaged stance now, recalling her long career from country to city schools and four superintendents.
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Webster
Harrison
Old Park
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Jiss Harmsen
J. H. Garber
Williard Lyon
W. W. Cook
W. C. Farmer
California
Pella High Expands Manual Training With Added Shop Year
Pella High will extend the school year 1929 1930 with an extra year of shop work in the modern manual training department. New equipment includes a band saw and shaper, enabling an advanced course after the second year, with initial focus on Mechanical Drawing and Machine Management. Parents sign statements absolving the school of shop accidents. strict safety rules will guide machine operation.
Pella Teacher Rejoins Country Schools After Return in 1926
After a decade in city schools she cared for an invalid sister for three years. In the fourth year she resumed teaching elsewhere, then returned to Pella in 1926 to continue teaching in country schools through the present time.
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Pella
International Advertising Convention Planned in Berlin
The International Advertising Convention is set for this year in Berlin. The Borsig Building, a modern business tower named for the famed locomotive maker, stands at Tegel in the capital’s industrial district, as photographed by Herbert Photos.
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Berlin
Borsig
Tegel
Herbert Photos
The Child a Blessing in a Mother’s Care
A reflection on the value of children through a mother and her daughter Lillian. The pastor visits a widowed mother whose twenty three year old daughter provides devotion and comfort, turning sacrifice into joy and highlighting the daughter’s blessing to the family.
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Lillian
A Mother's Creed Belief in Husband Home Children and Faith
A declaration of personal creed affirming fidelity to husband and home, dedication to children and their growth, belief in Jesus Christ as savior, trust in the Church, and a commitment to fulfill these obligations despite others failing. The passage emphasizes fourfold life nurture, education, character, and spiritual service within family and faith.
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Jesus Christ
Christ
Mortgage Is Safer by Uncle Joe Narration
An elderly Black man tests ownership terms, recalling a past farm and mortgage with a bank. The broker assumes a deed follows payment, but Uncle Joe notes the bank held the mortgage and kept the farm. A Banking Review quip highlights the risk of mortgage versus deed dynamics.
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Uncle Joe
Fast National Bank
Banking Review
Frugal Dinner Menu From a Historic Recipe Breakdown
The excerpt outlines a thrifty six serving menu with pear cocktail liver and onions, spinach, peas and carrots, and a coffee chocolate dessert. It lists costs for ingredients: pears 25 cents grenadine 12 cents liver 42 cents onions 10 cents spinach 17 cents peas and carrots 15 cents drippings flour milk parsley butter, eggs and gelatin with cents totals.
Local Tire Dealers Tout Firestone Supreme Baloon Tire
The O and P Tire Co firestone dealers praise the Supreme Baloon Tire as the strongest, most rugged tire yet. Described as safe, durable, and non skid with balloon tire principles, it blends strength and endurance for today and tomorrow. See the advertisement for full details and the picture of this new tire.
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O. & P. Tire Co
Firestone
Ars
Normal Training At Pella High School
The Normal Training department under Mrs. Richardson has trained teachers for rural schools for years. Seven seniors graduate this year with three already securing positions for next year. A Junior class studies elementary teaching and will host a farewell party for the seniors Thursday evening.
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Pella High School
Richardson
Ris
Ye Foto Shoppe Takes The Photos
The Ye Foto Shoppe reports a busy week preparing pictures for the Chronicle's Public School Edition along with portraits and amateur finishing. Readers may order any published photo in actual print form at the shop at a reasonable price and are invited to visit the studio.
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Ye Foto
The
Chronicle
Beautiful Garden Of Iris In North Pella
Mrs. W. C. Van Vark tends a notable iris display in her north Pella garden. In full bloom, the flowers attract many visitors who stop by to view and are welcomed to see the blooming iris collection.
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W. CG. van Vark
North
Pella
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