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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1911
Page
7
Local notices describe preparations for winter at Vanderpols with new dress goods lines. Various residents visit, travel, or return from Des Moines, Omaha, and California. Business ads promote cleaning services and a big Maxwell car sale alongside community events and a birthday celebration.
The 16 000 attendees at the State Fair watched Gotch dominate the wrestling match, pinning the Russian twice in under twenty minutes to defend his world title. An Iowan, Gotch proved his strength amid festive crowd energy. In other notes, rabbits export boom shifts to commerce with 45 4 million frozen rabbits and 98 million skins sent to England, while US skin purchases reach 48 000. A Pella Chronicle editorial on The Passing of Hell is praised for not crossing the divide. Newton residents celebrate quiet passages about train routings and local news. Two men, Frank Livingston and Arthur Petermier, were found intoxicated on a Des Moines-bound flyer.
The Oskaloo sa Herald recalls Oskaloosa hosting the Iowa State Fair for two years before it moved to Des Moines. It notes crowds reaching 400,000 with receipts over 200,000, the 1858 first fair at Fairfield, and early transport challenges before railroads. contrasts past and present agricultural and industrial growth.
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