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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1947
Page
3
A reflective weekly piece cites radio host Don Robinson praising youths in Yankton while urging town leaders to create work and hobby spaces for boys and girls. It also warns against hitchhiking dangers, discusses downtown building space, and praises Central College for sportsmanship, contrasting with rival schools.
A columnist lauds student fans for fair play and discouraging booing at Central games. The piece urges Iowa Conference colleges to adopt the stance. It also reflects on a painter’s father and son team, noting their cooperative effort and pride in honest labor across towns.
Waukon papers rail at postwar entanglements with grim civil war comparisons about readiness and patriotism. A Walnut Bureau remark mocks household disorder while warning about governmental payroll waste. Des Moines auto auction notes expose used-car deception and calls for end to price manipulation. Madisonian critiques tariff logic and urges world trade plus prosperity to avert conflict.
A train of three coaches carried businessmen and Baptists to Grinnell for the State Baptist Convention with banners urging support for Central College. Pella raised 100000 for its bid, votes favored a 3.5 percent tax for a railroad, and local meetings and columns covered health, education, and community projects. A Monroe game loss, a new coal mine opening south of Pella, and sugar plant activity also featured in the week.
A new Reformed-Church building at Otley was dedicated. Speakers included Reverends Zigelaar Pietenpol Dydema Van Kersen and Vander Werf.
Thirty years ago on October 18 1917 the white hotel in south Pella owned by Jacob Todd burned after a coal shed fire. The Todds and Newell households saved contents as firemen fought a large well built structure likely worth more than its $1 000 insurance. A career of local events and notices follows with residents traveling to Omaha Des Moines and Chicago and other wartime community notes.
A fragmented October 20 years ago from Des Moines area notes covers Riley of Rock Island, Me company employees, Pella lodge ties, Des Moines Chamber guests, Praise City gravel plans, Marion County Veterans reunion elects Harvey president, a farm home burned near Pella, local people visiting Pell Hichway, and Central College football loss to Parsons 10 zero.
Marinus Meulpolder, owner of Central Park Cafe, leaves for Holland to visit plans to return by Ky ng Day. Jaypool’s high school football team pictured after beating Sigourney to 0, heading to Pleasantville with Dutch costumes for a parade. Fred Calhoun struck by a passing car on East Washington Street.
The piece questions why newspaper workers would have nervous breakdowns, arguing that editors face easy days while grocers, teachers, bankers, and other workers deal with stress. It mocks the idea that journalists are more prone to mental illness, noting the public’s easy reading and the supposedly calm newsroom.
An 82 year old man suffered a broken leg and cuts near the Ed Van Gorp residence. The page also highlights a play rehearsal led by director Harry Sixsmith with cast members Elva Heerema and others, plus images of a home under construction, coal mining at Muren strip mine, and a Pella Dairy Judging team led by M. M. Dockendorf with John Hagen winning first place.
Lincoln High defeated Pella 18 to 0 in Des Moines as fumbles plagued the Little Dutchmen. A Waterloo Dairy Show judged Holstein cattle awarding a medal, while the Farmers Union invited patrons to a meeting about a potential locker plant and the housing shortage prompted front page urging citizens to build homes.
Modern Living asserts refined foods and lack of exercise cause constipation and sluggish intestines. The ad promotes Adlerika as a scientifically compounded laxative that quickly absorbs, relieves pressure, and moves waste through the digestive tract. It urges readers to order a bottle and to use only as directed.
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