Local News Highlights from Pella and Nearby
The period covers visits and travels of Dr. Georgia Chalfont and Mrs. W. H. Clark between Rochester and southern Minnesota amid wintry roads. Locals attend fairs, shop De Wit Bros. specials on coffee and produce, and note community events including homecomings, hospitalities, and church discussions on prohibition.
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Georgia Chalfont
W. H. Clark
Barney Mensch
Rochester
Minn
Minnesota
Iowa
Prairie City
Quips and Quibbles in Barbs and Banter
A string of brief newspaper quips and exchanges on curious questions about chickens tails canaries and manners. A joke about curiously asking a cat to a remark on a dowager and a citizen seeking a canary job rounds out a bite sized set of light humor captions from the period.
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Bird Store
The Shabby Mind Versus Shabby Rooms
A Sunshine column notes the value of a tidy mind over fine furniture. It contrasts a house filled with elegant decor but trashy reading with a shabby house and a clean, prudent mind. The Minnetonka Record and Wall Street Journal examples illustrate the point.
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Minnetonka Record
Special in Typewriters New Corona No 3 Portable 38 05
The Book Shop lists typewriters including New Corona No 3 Portable at 38.05 and New Model Corona Portable at 50.00. Also advertised are rebuilt machines such as Remington No 6 14.95 Monarch 34.95 and Royal L C Smith options.
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Remington
Exchange at Holland Meat Market Saturday event
The Sunday School class of Miss Cornelia Hospers will hold an exchange at Holland Meat Market next Saturday, November 3.
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Cornelia Hospers
Holland
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L. Popma’s
de Wit Bros
John de Cook
Des Moines
A. B. van Houweling
Capital City
T. S. Ver Beek
Oskaloosa
Bertha Jacobson
Pella
Chicago
Gambell
John de Goey
Newton
H. Jaarsma
Otley
S. L. Weir
Witten
S. D
W. S. van Hemert
Eddyville
J. C. Clark
David
South Dakota
John Nieburg
Johanna Leffers
C. Kooyman
Miss Allie
Leighton
Arne van Gent
Firth, Nebr
P. H. van Gorp
New York
Garden City Feeder Co
Chronicle
N. J. Gesman
New
Jennie van Vark
Mabel Hefferfinger
Monroe
Henry van Ostrum
Tipton
Okla
H. H. Sadler
Muscatine
Iowa Baptist Convention
James A. Donovan
H. Rhynsburger
Mr. Donovan
Nickel Plate Railroad
Henry Ver Steeg
Jasper County
H. F. Fisk
Dan
New Sharon
A. Wickhart
Fremont
Irene van Wyk
A.*N.“Varider’ Meulen
P. G. Gaass
Keokuk
A. Yonker
Sioux Center
Yonker
Ames
Agricultural College
Sioux County
George Grundman
Sauk Center
L. P. Grundman
Grand Forks
N. D
Henry Grundman
America
Second Reformed Church
H. M. Bruins
de Jong
Main St
J. H. Cochrane
W. H. Vander Ploeg
Peter van Hemert of
P. Vander Kolk
C. T. van Spern
N. Main St
Peter Ver Dught
J. G. Klein
Art Klein
Rock
G. Mitten
Cedar Rapids
Minta de Jong
Relativ
Bud Vander Meulen
Central College
Bud
Central
Sadler
Herman Mosehel
Ottumwa
Mrs. M. Kramer
Oakland
Willie
Nellie
Boys’ Magazine
Texas
Missouri
New York Telegraph
Congress
Sunshine
Dobbin
Wall Street Journal
Farmer
ENLY
Rev. L. Colyn
E. S. Cook
Henry Bennink
Chronicle Office
B. H. Langerak
Oskaloosa Street
Peter J. Gorp
Advance Mfg. Co
Dock St. St. Louis
Chester
E. Richardson
Rexall
Ic Sale
Gillette
Vander Linden
Great Invention Co
Xteci
Dempster Fess
Gary T. Vogelaar
Puritan Drug Co
J. A. Judson
Buffalo Creek
Mont
DELCO
Pella, Iowa
F. C. Harkers
Franklin St
Pella Motor Co
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