Pella Residents Worldly Ties Show at Local Gatherings
Local notes list visits by Bill Colliston and A. T. Brom of Fairfield to Des Moines and Pella, Ames football watchers, and teachers from Mahaska county attending a meeting in Oskaloosa. Des Moines and Minneapolis trips appear among residents including Mrs. Letitia Brunia and Mrs. Carrie Awtry. Wizard Pancake Flour ads appear amid community announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.T. Brom
Fairfield
eJlsma
Des Moines
Osceola
Dili
Pete van Niewaal
Joe DeKoning
D. VanderPol
Martin VerPloeg
Eddyville
Fuiss Letitia Brunia
Oskaloosa
Pella
Carrie Awtry
Prairie City
R. A. Awtry
Ady
Glark and
Ehrhardt
Jake Sterrenburg
Make Money Near Home with Easy Profitable Work
You can make money right around your home as hundreds of men and women do. Work in easy, pleasant and permanently profitable, be your own boss and build your own business. You take no risk and profit steadily. Send name and address with one reference to L. Brown, 66 Murray St New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Brown
Murray St
New York
City
Classified Ads and Charity Totals Touching Notes
Short items advertise 5 cent per line column rates with a ten cent minimum. Notices include lost fox terrier, a gray hair ornament, pullets for sale at 407 Main Street, and a $6,000,000 wartime Jewish relief total distributed by major committees with Russia receiving $1,800,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joint Distribution Committee
American Jewish Relief Committee
Central Relief Committee
People’s Relief Committee
Russia
Fragmented prewar territorial and fund figures
A partial OCR list shows monetary figures tied to regions in Europe before 1918. Entries include German Poland with $1,454,500 and Austria-Hungary including Galicia with $1,065,000 and Palestine with $400.00, suggesting a financial or property distribution record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Austria-Hungary
Galacia
Palestinie
Allen's Foot-Base and Foot-Ease Advertisement
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Base antiseptic powder shaken into shoes and in foot bath. Relieves hot, tired, swollen, aching feet and helps tight or new shoes feel easy. Sold everywhere for 25 cents. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease. Do not accept substitutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Pella Markets Reported Cattle and Produce Prices
Stock and derZyl Bros. Cattle Produce Co. and Pella Markets list varied prices for cattle and produce. Prices show per cwt and per bushel ranges with multiple adjustments and fees reflected by local traders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
derZyl Bros. Cattle_ Produce Co
Pella
Let Us Tan Your Hide At Cownie Tanning Co Des Moines
We arrange with Cownie Tanning Co to tan horse or cow hides into coats or robes. Prices from 9.50 to 16.60 depending on lining, with guarantees and samples available. Also repairs offered. 419 Vandermeerlen & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cownie Tanning Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Vandermeulen & CO
Deafness Cure Devised By Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local treatments and must be addressed by constitutional remedies. It claims nine of ten cases are catarrh related and offers $100 for any deafness case cured by Catarrh Cure. Includes promotional lines for Hi Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and Hall's Family Pills. mentions New Yorkers planning $130 million charity for French destitute children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Cheney, & CO
Toledo
Ohio
Drugeléta
Hall
Allen's Foot Ease advertises antiseptic powder
Old promotional copy urges shaking Allen's Foot Ease powder into shoes and foot baths to soothe tired swollen feet. It claims relief from corns bunions blisters sore spots and callouses and promises comfort and rest. Sold widely for 250, the ad urges trying it today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Fragmentary railroad and district listings surface in OCR text
The readable fragments show multiple railroad lines and divisions including Albia Knoxville Des Moines and Wabash Des Moines St Louis, with divisions and coal switch notes. Also mention of board of supervisors and district designations with numbers and monetary figures that hint at property or tax records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae & Q
Albia
Knoxville & Des Moines
Burlington & Western
Oskaloosa
Keokuk
Des Moines
Wabash
Wabash, Des Moines & St. Louis Division
Fair Oak
Summit
Red Rock
Brush Creek
Rock
Oak Ridge
Oskaloosa Division
Perry
St. Louis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bill” Colliston
Snnéll
H,thomassen
Bert Baron
Home Department
Mary Helen van derLinden
Henry Pietenpol
Charley Dykstra
Albert van Houweling
Chigagoill
Wormhoudt Furniture Store
MAS
Minnie Ver Ploeg
N. Boland
Royal Baking Powder CO
the Chronicle
College
Carrie Halbert
America
France
Verners
Otley
Main Street
Pella Markets
Acre
Van
Vander Linden
Chichester S Pills
Lamond
Grown Here CO
New York City
Penla City
Marion County
Westers
Board’ of’ Supervisors
Keokuk & Des Moines
Lake Prairie
Slivar Grove
Pella City
Plain View Valley
Silver Grove
Liberty Otley
Cincinnati
Pella, Corporation ‘Water
Lake Prairie Summit
Clay
Cerne Valley
Troy Burak
Des Mos ‘Valley
Amsterdam
Bussey, Corporation
Hamilton, Corporation
Harvey, Corporation
Liberty
Cedar Valley
Virginia
Shiloh
C. R. I. and
St. Paul
Kansas City
Short
Pleasant Grove
Franklin Dallas
Dallas
P. St. Paul
Dallas Freedom
Marion Melcher
di Pranklin
Fairview
Hazel Ridge
Empire Senter
Sunnyside
Pancho
Dallas, Corporation
Melcher, Corporation
Pleasant Grove Franklin
J.-D. Schlotterback
Knoxville
Tracy
Swan
Hamilton
McMillan
Lincoln
Twp
Pleasantville
Gray
Knoxville Vere
Bussey
Hamilton Corporation
Sas
Corporation
Ater
Lobe
Harvey
Burlington
Clay Bebe
C. R. L and P
Ips
C. R
Porterville
Jock Island
Mes Valle
Eureka
Iola
Flaglerim Ridge
Ay Enoxville
R. I
Corporatio Harvey
Pry
Des Moinés
St. Louisien
Fieahiton
Virginie
Cedar Val
Jureka
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