Thanksgiving Day reflections and town park news
The column reflects on Thanksgiving gratitude and road safety advice. It highlights Tulip Town park in Pella, crediting the Junior Chamber of Commerce and local figures for donating and planning the park. It covers National Education Week in Pella, calls for government spending restraint, and observations on local advertising and shopper habits. The piece also notes Dorothy Thompson and Hitler discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Tulip Town
Pella
North Main
Walter H. Fowler
H. B. Sixsmith
Bernie Vander Linden
Murray Nesbit
Editorial reflections from several Iowa papers on politics and economy
Editorial excerpts critique Italy’s fashion waste, Hitler’s wartime austerity, and Roosevelt’s administration. Sigourney Review argues for jury justice over judges. Wallace's Farmer highlights debt, mortgage burdens on Iowa farms from census data, urging mortgage clearance for owner operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Iowa
Front page half tale of Cambridge math tests and politics
The Blade reports a lengthy front page piece on Cambridge mathematics tests and new European scholarly depths. It also critiques Republicans for treasury empty talk after election losses, plus a fashion note on hats, velvet coats, and violet shades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Blade
Cambridge
England
Blade
U.S
New York
The
Advertiser
G. A. Stout
Stout
H. Jansen van Donselaar
North Pella
Frank LeCocq
Poland
Penn Beats Central 6 to 0 at Oskaloosa in 1911
In a Dec 7 1911 report, Penn defeats Central 6 to 0 at Oskaloosa with 250 supporters, a brass band, and a “fittle piggy” cry. Ground gainers were Hoeinie Van Spanckeren and Herman Bogaards. listed players include Atha Phillips Visser Van Zante H Phillips Peterson Armstrong Aschenbrenner Churchill Van Spanckeren and Bogaards. Elbert T. Warren of Drake headlines. The crowd traveled by train. coach Chas Firth. Also notes a wedding between Marie Van Hemert and Eva Bieshaar at the Bieshaar home nearby and a three-year-old daughter Jeanette Wilma dying at the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn
Central
Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa Herald
Hoeinie van Spanckeren
Herman Bogaards
Atha
P. Phillips
Visser
Babe
van Zante
H. Phillips
Peterson
Armstrong
Aschenbrenner
Churchill
Marie van Hemert
Eva Bieshaar
Bieshaar
Jeanette Wilma
Then Shall I Truly Give Thanks Poem by Eugenia Finn
Reprinted from the Montezuma Republican this poem speaks of humble gratitude toward God home and country. It reflects on native land beauty and service of those who sacrificed for a shared dream and urges a clearer vision of what God home and country mean to the speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugenia T. Finn
Oratorical Contest and Local News From Pella
The season opened with an oratorical contest at Pella high school. Winners included Mac Cole first and Verne Rys sum second in humorous, and Margaret Grundman first with Millie Brom second in dramatic. Other items note Jozephine Grandin working at a bakery, a planned Oska loosa game, a tale of Marion Porter and his improving wife, and city council actions to fill the mill pond back of Blommers Mill and remove fences near Central Park for fire access. Librarian Jula Van Zante reported 2053 books loaned in November, with 82 average daily circulation. Thanksgiving offerings were presented to Reverend Bailey. A. Toogenakker, age 71, reportedly hung the first wallpaper in early Pella, 1856, brought from St. Louis by a local pharmacist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Neuenexch
Irene TeCoca
Verne Ryssum
Mac Cole
Joseph Boxnards
Mac
Mary Helen Vander Linden
Margaret Grundman
Millie Brom
Margaret
Millie
Artie Smorenberg
Marion Porter
Blommers Mill
Central Park
Jula van Zante
the Baptist Church
Bailey
A. Toogenakker
Pella
Jacob de Haan
Old College
St. Louis
Defense Bond Defense Bond Quiz Q and A
A machinist in an airplane factory asks about layoffs after the war and how to prepare. The government seeks extensive buying of Defense Bonds and Stamps from a very large group of Americans.
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Q. T
Central athletes shine in all conference picks and local notes
Ray Hostetler named AP halfback on the mythical all conference team with See’s first and second teams honoring Wildasin and Tyeseling Meredith Wilkins Tharp. Central’s basketball opener vs Newton Y follows a 35 game win streak. Welfare League plans Christmas baskets at the Yo Foto Shoppe. Chevrolets Six from Flint priced as low as 475 with speeds from 65 to 76 mph and silent synchro mesh shift advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton Y
Central
Flint
Michigan
The One Thing Lacking Love in Modern World
Lesson notes reflect on John 13 34 and 1 Corinthians 13 1 18 urging Christians to show Christ like love. It contrasts talk with action and laments moral decline, urging leaders and people to live gospel love through faith hope and charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Ruier
God
Jesus Christ
America
Christ
1921 Addyville items wide ranging in local life
Twenty years ago Dec 1 1921 clipped Addy ville Tribune item recounts Hubert Den Hartog delivering sixteen hogs weighing 18 140 pounds to market. Gosselink couple injured in Main and Liberty crash while D G Gosselink suffers a broken hip and may be out long. Abe Goemant Estate farms sold at $149 and $68 per acre. A Howell teamster threatens at the station. captured and bound over to county. Legion family welcome Commander Van Zante and bride. Gerrit Van Haalen weds Elizabeth Pippel. Coal injury to Herman Crum. Goodtown Egg Coal price listed. Martha Firth learns of arrival at Port Said on the Suez Canal en route to Bombay and Assam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addyville Tribune
Hubert den Hartog
D. G. Gosselink
Main
Liberty Streets
Abe Goemant
Irvin Tanner
Howell
Joe Slycord
Joe
Pella
van Zante
LaGrange
Gerrit van Haalen
Elizabeth Pippel
William Pippel
J. Wessel
Automobile thief jailed after kidnap terror near Ottumwa
Ten years ago a thief named George Graham of Ottumwa, age twenty, captured three boys driving to school in a Chrysler near Ottumwa, forced them at gunpoint, drove around the county then to Pella, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Roll Call for Red Crow raised $500.77. A large poultry show and a long-tenured pastor were mentioned in passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Paul Grundman
Polla
George Graham
Ottumwa
Pella
Graham
Red Crow
Jacob Plonder
Timex
Hocksoma and
Trump
Bernie Molise
Wlx
Quick Thinking Recruit in Naval Parody
The Captain tests a recruit by asking what to do if a battleship appeared on the parade ground. The recruit replies with firing 16 inch guns, prompting the Captain to quip that they would have drawn theirs from the same place as the battleship.
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Pena Chronicle
Sailor Pubsihing Cx
Official County Newspaper
Pena Town
Les
Chronicle
Palin Tow
Robert Burns
Burns
Europe
Britain
China
Holland
Lincoln and
Webster
Congress
St. Lawrence Seaway
Bay of Fundy
Florida Ship Canal
Senate
Uncle Sam
Washington
Towa
Dorothy Thompson
Hitler
Adolph Schicklgruber
der Feuhrer
Kaiser
Adolph
Carroll Times-Herald
Italy
Dallas County
Adolph Hitler
Creston News
White House
Roosevelt
France
LAW and Justice
Sigourney Review
Abraham Lincoln
Fliteo
Tyme
Th Advance Society
Central College
I, D. Sackett
P. Steinhart
Clinton
Miles
Shiloh
Karl
Parks
Dr. Lawyear
Elle
Herore
Defense
Savings and Loan Association
United States
D. C
Rev
H. L. van Dellen
S. S. Union
Paul
Mineal
Hevdayfoduc
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