Good Speech Week at Pella High School
Pella High School hosts Good Speech Week with ext performed contests and class speakers in the assembly. Teachers attended Des Moines convention with fifteen thousand in attendance and reports of renewed inspiration.
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Des Moines
United States
Canada
Lea Cook
Coliseum
East High
West High
Anna Olson
U. S. Senate
Jewell
Iowa City
Miss Bailey
Cedar Falls
Manuel
Pella
X ray heart test on bicycle for child health
Minneapolis physicians introduce a new physical examination method using an X ray camera mounted on a child riding a stationary bicycle. The device records real time heart size and shape changes to detect deformities and heart disease alongside other defects in schoolchildren.
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Physicians
Minneapolis
Monster Mallet Locomotive Powers Freight Hauls
A giant Mallet-type locomotive, 108 feet long with 12 driving wheels and a 425 ton weight, pivots its boilers to negotiate curves and can haul up to a thousand cars through the Rocky Mountains. It carries 12,000 gallons of water and 4,000 gallons of oil, and is mainly used for freight on western lines.
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Rocky Mountains
Hedge clipping gauge and rain-proof window box plan
A hedge clipping gauge uses a 2 by 4 vertical spine with lighter horizontal arms to trim hedges evenly. It starts at one end, the bottom member steadies the tool, and the blade clips above the gauge as it moves. A wooden between-jamb window box keeps rain out while allowing fresh air when placed on a sill with thumb screws and window weight.
Halloween Slumber Party at Vander Ploegs
A Friday night Halloween gathering at Bessie Vander Ploeg's house features Edna, Peg, Esther, the Birds, Wilda, Eva and Judy. Guests wander haunted halls, enjoy a three course breakfast, hunt fortunes, scare neighbors, and celebrate Spirit Night with playful pranks and green cap reminders to freshmen.
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Edna
Peg
Esther
the Birds
Wilda
Eva
Judy
Bessie Vander Ploeg’s
Bessie
Central Students Visit Spirit Land
An All Saints Eve piece describes the King of Spirits narrating from Spirit Land in Pella. He notes his subjects vary like humans and observe familiar pleasures as they walk the city streets.
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Central
Spirit Land
Pella
Imprisoned in a Gloomy Prison Farewell Note
The speaker laments a hideous prison that defines them as mysterious beings and bids a farewell before returning to their somber confinement.
Night Time and Electric Light for the Home
The passage extols night time as a period for rest and social harmony, highlights the value of a cheerful home, and asserts electric lighting as superior for home use. It urges bright, convenient, clean illumination that does not deplete oxygen, praising electric lights as essential to comfort and happiness in modern homes.
Iowa Highway Deaths and Accidents Report
The state highway commission reports for the first seven months of the year 166 highway deaths in Iowa, 162 in automobile crashes and 32 at grade crossings. Total accidents reach 3,649 with 4,581 injuries. Officials say most crashes could be prevented by cautious driving and careful railway crossings.
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State Highway Commission
Iowa
The
Highway Commission
First New Corn Market Report From Sheldon Iowa
Otto F Bartz of Sheldon reports the first new corn of the season marketed there. Isaac Boersma shelled 1100 bushels at 68 cents a bushel. The corn graded No 6 with excessive moisture. By mid October Iowa had little dry corn fit to shell.
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Otto F. Bartz
Sheldon
O’brien County
Isaac Boersma
Iowa
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Christine Bruins
Charlotte van der Ploeg
Miss G
Gerrit W
Pella High School
Lenore Ballange
Miss Bonar
Logan Hendricks
Kenneth Fox
Mary Grootveld
Miss Gosselink
Morris
Morris V
Dallas High School
Prairie City
Ernest de Cook
Kennett Fox Harding
Stephen van Roekeleet
Michael Strogoff
Leona Bogaard
Margaret Billiou
Bertha Plette
Peg O
Helen Gaass
Janet Bosveld
Lilian Payne
Jane” Music
Vander Linden
Rexall Store
Popular Mechanics
Maur
Monster
Trrck
Oskaloosa
Lacey Hotel
C. F. Redlich
Boston Block
Minn
Rexall
A. B. van Houweling
J. van Dusseldorp
Oskaloosa St
Pella, Iowa
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