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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1926
Page
6
Ottumwa proposes forcing vagrants to repay fines through street labor on city streets. The policy aims to curb panhandling and reduce visible beggar activity, with potential spillover benefits cited for nearby Pella as a possible example. The plan emphasizes earned income over begging as a path to repentance and social order.
An Ames editorial argues a farmer should head the state agricultural college to deter Ames from turning it into a university. The piece also denounces a Massachusetts Ponzi scheme case involving an envoy to Mussolini and suggests Italy reclaim criminals.
In Dubuque public schools a clash over Catholic and non Catholic influence persists with the pope’s stance irrelevant to American education. Council Bluffs naturalization applicants were refused citizenship for wartime nationality claims, the only two of twenty one rejected, prompting calls for deportation of aliens unable to qualify for citizenship.
Busy investors consider a low cost transformer to bring electricity from power lines to farms. The farmer has shown willingness to pay hundreds for conveniences but balks at five to six thousand dollars needed to downstep current for practical use.
Colonel Brookhart, forgiven by the Republican state central committee with Curtis of the Knoxville Journal present, turns his fire toward Democrats starting with E. T. Meredith, Wilson era secretary of agriculture. He keeps up on McNider and a few Steck supporters, but the committee wants him to avoid detonating dynamite on their ticket.
A reader is urged to study historical newspaper clippings from twenty years ago showing frequent saloon brawls and street fights by drunkards. The piece notes prohibition has since transformed those men into better citizens and declines to reprint names.
Towa proposed saloon limits did not apply to gasoline stations. Several Iowa towns tally stations per population to identify the densest market. Pella shows five stations for 3,300 people, about 600 per station, counting only drive in outlets not curb pumps or those in garages.
A Marion county notice invites candidates, including some women, to publish statements in The Chronicle two months before November elections. The paper offers to print any candidate’s message under their name, regardless of support, as a matter of advertising.
The paper discusses political advertising standards and presses that ads must be truthful for public circulation. It recalls a recent incident where a young man, known in Des Moines as part of the Krupp legacy, posed as a Ford-connected heir, drove a Ford car, and was arrested out west, highlighting public gullibility and the need for vigilance before November.
A columnist denounces alleged corruption in the Pennsylvania and Illinois GOP senatorial primaries and linked figures like Vare Mellon and Pennsylvanian and Illinois operatives to a pattern of bribery. The piece argues Coolidge’s administration shares fault for not condemning or acting, urging removal of corruptionists to preserve free government.
Interference O Viersen and E H Carson noted among a string of local items. Jake Sybenga leaves for Iowa City to study civil engineering while Paul Edmand heads to Chicago for school. The Knoxville inebriate asylum is full. A cornstalk 22 feet tall with two large ears stands 11 feet high. Tomato harvests near Howell station top 600 bushels per load. Miss Bess Scholte sick with typhoid in Canon City. Martha Firth returns from Chicago. George F Sadler to Germany for advanced music study. ice plant begins operations with first ice of 300 pounds per batch and 600 pounds per hour capacity. water supply remains unsatisfactory.
The piece argues intoxication shows contempt for law and that liquor traffic fuels crime. It contends Chicago murders reflect illicit alcohol battles and warns cities pay the price for tolerating unlawful liquor, linking vice to violent outcomes and urging lawfulness.
A 1920s style notice compiles editorial quips about coastal towns courting a washing machine plant, mentions Pella and Knoxville, and quotes party conflicts around Senator Brookhart. It blends humorous local lines with broader political commentary from multiple papers.
Twenty years ago in Pella, Andrew Van Drimmelen moved from Knoxville, Frushs welcomed two newborns, and the Kuyper infant arrived August 27. The canning factory processed about 1200 bushels daily while Rock Island tickets to the state fair approached a thousand. Local tradesmen arrived from Holland, neighbors faced an injury, and legal notices listed petit jury picks for Lake Prairie Township.
A Chicago Tribune editorial compiles Civil War memory and current defense of Illinois and federal law against Prohibition. It argues the Tribune’s stance erodes respect for law, cites rising crime and juries failing to convict in Iowa, and notes wider social drift from lawfulness across Chicago and rural areas.
A compact catalog lists state nicknames with associated monikers such as Alabama the Cotton State and Georgia the Cracker. It pairs each state with a colorful historical sobriquet reflecting regional culture and history.
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