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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1931
Page
4
The Inquiring Reporter asks five residents what they are thankful for as Thanksgiving nears. Answers vary from gratitude for family and health to appreciation of community support and simple everyday blessings amid the season’s bustle.
Mrs Oscar Benson urges lasting gratitude beyond a single day as Thanksgiving nears, while Miss Tena Stursma praises health and friends. Steve Grandin notes resilience despite gloom, Officer Carter celebrates favorable weather, and Mrs W E Johnson values health, home, stable income, and a supportive city with strong schools and churches.
Henry Ford argues money loses value when hoarded and warns against perpetual unemployment. He urges re modeling the economy, insists on experience backed goodwill, and criticizes regulation that shifts market power to manufacturers. He emphasizes free competition, public accountability, and avoiding universal unemployment insurance.
A collage of small ads offers purebred Jer sey boars geese and batteries for sale, alongside a long opinion piece arguing unemployment insurance and tax reforms. The column critiques government waste, stock markets, and industrial recovery, urging lower taxes and better financial machinery.
Henry Ford argues for higher quality cheaper goods to revive a world market and continuous employment. He cites past factory stability, questions twelve month operation, and proposes merging agriculture with industry to create year round work and new uses for farm products. He emphasizes ongoing experiments and personal effort over eighteen months.
The Monroe Mirror reports the death of Henry De Leeuw a Monroe area businessman who died at Poly Clinic hospital Des Moines at 6 am Wednesday following an appendectomy for peritonitis born in Pella Iowa April 14 1886 he lived on a Prairie City area farm before moving to Monroe worked as a mason then joined his brother John in what is now Monroe Oil company survived by his widow
The Mirror editorial recalls Henry De Leeuw a dependable Monroe citizen with a Golden Rule creed. He leaves a wife and children Garret Mathew Bertha, brothers John and Ira, sisters Jennie Robus Agnes Verners Chas Visser and Corena Hardy. The piece quotes hopeful reflections on death as transition.
A vintage ad collage from Van Den Berg Electric Co features humorous bits and social quips, promoting radios and accessories. It includes price points like 45 Volt sets at 2 for 2 20 and 2 for 4 50, trade-ins, and playful exchanges reflecting era attitudes.
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