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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1926
Page
9
Local events feature visits by families to relatives in Kansas and Des Moines, a seventh birthday celebration, and a snow event on election day in Pella. Ads promote tires, farm supplies, John Deere wagon boxes, cabinet heaters, and poultry products. Community notices cover a big horn owl, grocery items, and a new business location across from the Chronicle.
A narrator recalls a game with a gold-digging scam artist Trixie while detailing a client J. A who fell for her. He exposes the con as he helps J. A. confront his busted romance and contemplates marriage as a means to wealth. The piece questions whether men truly understand women.
A Friday October event at Miss Elia Van Baren's home features a Halloween supper for guests identified in mask followed by a merry downtown Frolic. The piece lists attending Misses Marjorie Baron Elma Le Cocq Alma Grandman Lois Grandin Lorel Hendricks Frances Gaass Ruth De Geest Gertende Bansi Infred Hesselins Gatha Gomelink Gladys Fennema Betty Brommers Florence Boot and the hostess. Also recounted is a rural anecdote about a running hog and a note on early Iowa alfalfa cultivation credited to William D. Huelle and descendants with plans for a monument near Emerson.
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