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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1929
Page
4
A dense paste of classified items lists for sale dining tables radios pianos and many used cars from 1920s dealers. Buyers can contact Vander Zyl Bros and Pella area merchants for coal appliances farm items and building services including painting and wallpaper cleaning.
The September 9 1929 county board approved entering 1929 tax levies across townships towns and school districts. Names listed include Matt Parrott & Sons Co J Johnny Bea Dunlap Rexall Drug Co and Johnsons Grocery with numerous county home county farm and poor relief disbursements and salaries. Peter Tysse ling chair and Fred O Hall auditor certify the minutes and adjournment.
Local advertisement for the White Way Auto Co offering a 1926 Essex Coach a 1922 Dodge Sedan and a 1924 Ford Roadster with overcoats trade and Seed clothing cleaned in good repair at low prices. Located east of the post office in Oskaloosa Iowa by Henry Gustafson.
September 24 1929 Marion county Iowa board met with Red Rock township trustees to settle road machinery tolls and equipment. They adopted a resolution taking over Red Rock machinery a tractor and a grader valued at 3500 with 2000 toward indebtedness and credit for remaining value toward township construction and maintenance. Wickes Engineering claim for bridge work allowed at 7038.84. Minutes read approved and adjournment set for October 1 1929.
The board of supervisors met on the thirtieth day, with all members present, read and approved the minutes of the last meeting, and proceeded to other routine items including a timekeeper note.
Logan Iowa report tells of Virgil Miller four years old whose clothing fouled on a tractor spindle. The boy sprinted to the field workers, then climbed back on the tractor to shut it off, saving his father from a fatal entanglement. The father freed himself and praised the boy's brave action as he had warned earlier.
A new natural history training school for nature guides and teachers will open in Yellowstone National Park. Park Naturalist Dorr G. Yeager announces a university standard program with no college credit, limited to 35 students aged 20 to 50. Applications due by March 1, 1930, to Park Naturalist Yeager at Yellowstone. Field headquarters will be at Roosevelt Lodge within the park’s celebrated site chosen by Roosevelt and Burroughs.
An old journal page explains that ordinary text has 2600 words per page and many error chances, citing a calculation that transpositions can create millions of errors in a single sentence. It notes urgent messages to a White Star Line manager at sea via wireless and land lines.
A bold drugstore pitch promotes Allenry as a quick active remedy for rheumatic pains. The ad claims fever relief, anti pyretic and diuretic effects, and urges customers to demand the product from druggists nationwide with a money back guarantee if it fails.
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