Library Notes On Yesterday And Other New Books
A digest of contemporary books reviewed in brief. Allen presents Only Yesterday as a key modern America study while Carroll and Lane offer narrative works about family life and national roots. Parmenter’s Shining Palace follows Nora Lambert’s adventurous Maine life and Lane’s call to American resilience. Ahlers profiles sixty famous figures in concise biographical sketches.
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Jen
Lane
Rose Wilder Lane
Shining Palace
Parmenter
Nora Lambert
Maine
Don Mason
Capri
Capetown
Ahlers
Americus Velucius
Fark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
The Pella Markets Quotations From Local Dealers
Local produce dealers report prices for corn wheat oats cream eggs springs old hens roosters ducks geese and hogs. Corn 26c old 4c wheat 78c oats 26c eggs 22c hogs delivered at Pella 2.10 to 3.75 Chicago bids 8.25 to 4.20 per hundred.
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Pella
Chicago
For Rent One Room or Four Furnished Near Square
Advertises rental options in a modern home with hot water heat two blocks from the square. Contact Chronicle office or 700 West First Street. Also piano students wanted with Ruth Dykstra at 407 Broadway, phone 156 Green, offering beginner lessons with reasonable rates and scheduling.
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Aply Chronicle
West First Treet
Ruth Dykstra
Broadway
Green
Work Wanted Grinding and Oat Hullin g Details
WANTED Nursing in your home or in Mrs Cornelia Porter. Phone WANTED Work of any kind or place on farm for steady work Have family Henry Wiema 606 Washington St Pella. Phone aid Red 191 Forrest Verey. Portable hammer mill and oat hullers on two trucks. Grinding 10c per 100 pounds Oat hulls 20c per bushel. I appreciate your business.
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Forrest Verey
Cornelia Porter
Henry Wiema
Washington St
Pella
Wyk
Local classifieds and service ads roundup
For sale six dozen White Rock pallets from J H Shinn Hatchery. Apples offered by Oak Grove Nursery. Fly Wheel Starter Gears for all car makes from Hoeksema Brothers Garage. Auto Owners Insurance promo urges coverage with installment payments via Lautenbach and Vergoht Insurance. Hatchery calls for poultry buyers with on farm weighing via Neal Schuring or Hatchery phone. Shinn Hatchery Pella remains listed.
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J. H. Shinn Hatchery
Hoeksema Bros
Gall the Hatchery
Neal Schuring
Jo H
Shinn Hatchery
Pella
Mrs J M Cox visits son in Omaha concert beauty
Mrs. J M Cox returned from a brief visit to Omaha to hear pianist and organist Martin W Bush perform at the Joslyn Memorial Auditorium. The Gheonata in F for violin and piano featured Henry Cox and Bush as soloists. The piece was part of a weekly free Sunday program that enhances city inspiration. The column urges citizen responsibility and cooperation for city beautification.
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J. M. Cox
Henry
Omaha
Martin W. Bush
Joslyn Memorial Auditorium
Bush
Henry Cox
Inquiring Report on Teters Tax Proposal Views
A panel of five residents including Dr. G H Lankelma Hugo W Kuyp er Co L Allen Dr C Aschenbrunner Meyer Langerak share verdicts on Representative Teters tax plan. They discuss homestead exemptions sales tax net income and overall fairness noting potential gaps and proposing a mixed tax approach.
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G. H. Lankelma
Teters
Hugo W. Kuyper
Mr. Peters
Co L. Allen
Meyer Langerak
Rep
Albia Grocers To Sell Bread Baked In Albia
Fourteen Albia grocers announce an agreement to sell bread baked locally for three months and distribute one free loaf to every home in Albia. The plan involves two bakeries and aims to support local money circulation and employment.
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Albia
Albise
Albia Lator
Pella
Electric Sparks Adventures and Local Humor Almanac
The page blends a weekly Van Den Berg Electric Co. advertisement with light humorous exchanges, sales blurbs, and jokes. It features a lost dog notice for Jim the liver colored hound, Flashlight deals, radio model promotions, lamp value advice, and witty exchanges involving a college son, a prison joke, and a concrete road quip. Local ads mix with social banter and product promos to reflect small town life.
Train Service Rock Island Time Table Feature
The snippet shows a rail timetable fragment with references to Wabash and local stops. Passenger numbers and times appear in truncated form, indicating schedule listings without complete details. The readable items hint at a mid 20th century railroad timetable layout mentioning BALD passenger flow and local service at Howell area.
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Library Notes
Allen
America
Andre Siegfried
Carroll
Mark Shaw
Chronicle
Uni
LE Peg
Banco-American
Benteco
Ruby
Rome
Tonie Schippers
East Third St
C. W. Clement
Henry Hackett
Poland
China
J. Jonker
Oskaloosa
Pavement 63
Prine School
H. Moffet
White Way Auto CO
Jonathan
Ben Davis
van Roekel
Vander Linden
Ollie de Bruyn
East First Street
Harold Veensira
Walter Ver Dught
Otley
Garden City
H. P.van Gorp
Raymond de Reus
Harvey Road
J. L. Durham
Srae
VAN nouWaLine AUTO._CO
Dodge
Plymouth
Swans Down
Oak Grove Nursery
Lautenbach & Ver Oght Insurance Agency
Representative Teters
Chamber of Commerce
C. Aschenbrenner
Roosevelt
van den Berg Electric Co
Rufe Johnson
Rufe
Jim
Air Cell
Atwater Kent
Post
Rufus
Prunes
Jap Hulless
Grocer
Ertestsdard
Jack Sprat
Rock Island
Bald ‘A. Bound
Howell
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