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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1937
Page
8
Knights in Armor of the First Christian Reformed church hosted an evening at Henry Van Arkel’s home in honor of former member Russell Van Arkel and his wife.
The Black Oak Township Homemaker Study Group met October 8 at Mrs. Dan Vander Linden's home with eight members and two visitors. Miss Laura Heddleson led the session on Food Needs of the Body and will share the lesson with other district women. The Legion Auxiliary listed weekly radio broadcasts on WHO WOT and WSUT. Mrs. Geo Whistler of Coon Rapids spoke on Attainments through Membership yesterday.
A group of young people from Fremont Baptist Church presents the religious drama The Challenge of the Cross at the Baptist church Sunday evening. All ages invited. An offering will help defray travel expenses. The production has been staged in several area churches and is described as fine and impressive.
A fragment recounts a man advised by US doctors to visit German specialists for a two week trial. He travels to Munich to see Prof. A Ey Lampe who allegedly hits him on the head with a wooden mallet restoring his vertebrae. The account notes the would be chiropractor could have treated him at home.
A New England doctor who fished to fund college inspired Rudyard Kipling to write Captains Courageous, revelation brought to light during a Pella Theatre program.
A German professor in New York fiction recounts a peculiar medical stunt. My. I. rens of Plainfield, New Jersey, reportedly sent to Germany for a far reaching bral dislocations, illustrating the era’s odd medical tales.
Research notes reveal Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer began filming Kipling tale with Freddie Barthol. The picture opens Wednesday October 20 at the Pella theatre. A Boston Globe copy from December 13, 1926 mentions Dr James Cowland Kipling’s wife’s family physician who aided Kipling’s literary start in Brattleboro Vermont.
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