This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Visitors and town notes from Emmetsburg era
J R Skow visits Emmetsburg while Spirit Lake plans to buy uniforms. Ida Truesdell and Mildred Estherville visitors, Ayrshire opera scenes by Jess Cox, Masonic lodge buys land in Spencer for a temple. Several locals travel, farm sales, and county happenings including egg sales fines, corn packing, and a bank merger in Mallard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.r.skow
Emmetsburg
Spirit Lake Hand
Ida Truesdell
Mildred
Jess Cox
Testherville
Ayrshire
Masonic Lodge
Spencer
C. A. Vanney
Illinois
Ackley
Theo, Thorson
Ole Thorson
Lars Thorson
Lake Mills
Sheldon
Dickinson County
Sunnyside
Terril
Popejoy & Crockett
A. Roy Fairchild
Ida Grove
Fairchild
Albert Lee
Jasper
Minn
Garner
Larson
A. C. Jacobsen
Thei
Alta
Governor Clarke
Spirit Lake
P.H. Denton
Washington
D. C
Claude Seibrig
George
United States
Panman Canal
Paul Lorenzen
Davenport
Estherville
Euipment
Tile Works
Fred Spies
Europe
Germany
Carl Spies
Satururday
Mr. Spies
German Lutheran Society of
Middle Iowa
Hampton
Helen Osher
L. L. Shutes
Bossingham
Ringsted
Shuies
Ottertail County
Minnesota
Henning
Terris Tribune
Mississippi River
Dubuque