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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1935
Page
4
Readers from cities debate the Ethiopian conflict with Italy. Comments favor restraint, critique Italy's motives, and warn of war's costs. Several respondents discuss war weariness, economic motives, and the role of money in shaping international conflict.
Local notes detail visits by Corsica families to the Henrder Beck home and Oskaloosa, with trips to Brooklyn and Chicago federation events. Several residents return from Grand Rapids and Three weeks away, plus college homecoming attendance in Cedar Rapids, Derby and Neosha. Also mentions farm purchase near Fa mount, and property rental on Main Street to Louis De.
Reports from the town include property purchases by Henry Kenning of Fifield and loans and rentals at the William Den Hartog residence on East Third Street. Visits include Sam Kok and son from Randolph Wisconsin, Rev. Kok and Mrs. Vander Lane, and others. The Baptist church selected Rev. P. I Blunt of Burlington as pastor with services starting November 3.
The article explains tests like Schick Dick and Mantoux for immunity and sensitivity to diseases. It notes that tuberculin reactions do not prove active tuberculosis and urges caution to avoid overinterpreting results.
Quotations attributed to Dr John Pearly offer wry musings on gender, law, politics, and morality. The fragmentary notes satirically compare steamboats to women, critique lawyers, governors, and public sentiment, with modern references mixed into old rural voice.
A Monday storm in Jasper County caused .71 inch of rain and a barn to burn to the ground on George Brock farm, killing two cattle and destroying hay, seed corn, harness, a cow and two sheep. Fire crews from Prairie City fought to contain the blaze as a lightning strike sparked the fire around 5 am.
Miscellaneous classified notices and ads including antiques for sale, a bicycle, saxophone, farm equipment, mattresses, and an incident note. Items feature prices and brief conditions. A two year old child suffered injuries in Chariton. a Tulip Time poem and weather-like notes appear among the clippings.
Kamal Attaturk predicts a new major conflict could erupt due to Mussolini's Ethiopian gamble and Hitler's Europe aims. In Berlin three Franciscan priests from Silesian monasteries were sentenced to prison and fined for alleged financial transactions abroad violating Nazi regulations.
A nostalgic verse description of Tulip Day in Pella and Holland cites red, pink, and white tulips, two girls in Sunday dress, a man photographing them, Dutch windmills, a band, and memories of tulip fields and Mother’s Day carnation associations.
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