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Local notes from Pella and vicinity update readers
Local column covers visits by residents to Des Moines Ottumwa and Burlington, wartime updates on Camp Dodge and soldiers, letters from soldiers urged for publication, farm trades near Oskaloosa, Des Moines excursions, and Wizard Self Rising Pancake Flour ads praising its all wheat quality and quick preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella City Roller Mills
Gerrit Vanden Berg
John Heerema
Chronicle
N. de Winter
Arie Klyn
A. J. Klyn
Des Moines
O. H. Viersen
Harry Viersen
Sully
P. A. Edmond
Sybenga
Wormhoudt
Lankelma
Wm. van Wely
Monroe
Neal Ver Heul
A. T. Brom
Pella
John de Cook
George Ver Steeg
Capital City
Charley Richardson
Grinnell
Ira Vriezelaar
Otley
G. T. H. Klein
Wizard
Ray van Maren
Ottumwa
J. W. Bailey
Peter Bruinekool
Indiana
Doctor Bailey
Keokuk County
France
Committee On Public Information
M. Tardieu
Marne
Charleroi
John P. van Rees
A. N. Vander Beek
A. B. van Houweling
Burlington
C. Hackett
E. de Zwarte
Camp Dodge