Escape at Andersonville Diary of Astorites Inside Stockade
Prison diary chronicles brutal conditions at Andersonville with Astorite inmates and guard actions. Battese the Indian and Ransom the wounded lead efforts to flee as the camp collapses into chaos, guards threaten with torches, and a perilous march toward freedom ends with rescue by Sherman’s forces.
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Andersonville
Battese
Minnesota
Mike Hoare
Astorites
Ransom
Jimmy Devers
Nupital Fa
Gayety
Stockade
Astor House
Bill Rowe
Iose
Rowe
Dar
Sherman
Grace McCracker Reaches 60 Years as Camp 2572 Recorder
Thornburg resident Grace McCracker marked sixty consecutive years serving as recorder for Oak Leaf Camp 2572, a record praised by local officials and seen as a notable civil service milestone. The achievement was noted on January 29, 1961, reflecting sustained community leadership.
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Grace McCracker
Thornburg
The List of Adrian Messenger at the Gractinger theater
Tony Curtis Kirk Douglas Burt Lancaster Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra appear in disguises in the mystery melodrama The List of Adrian Messenger directed by John Huston for Universal. The film shows Saturday and Sunday with the stars secretly masked and later unmasked revealing identities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Curtis
Kirk Douglas
Burt Lancaster
Robert Mitcham
Frank Sinatra
Adrian Messenger
Joel
John Huston
Universal
Grachtinger Theatre
Hollywood
Direeter Huston
Local pastor attends school. Midwest visits abound
Rev. C F Curtis, Graettinger Methodist pastor, attended a Pastor's school in Indianola Ia from Monday to Thursday last week. Mr. and Mrs. John Poland of Graettinger and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bratrud of Ringsted spent last weekend in Kansas City with Mr. Poland's brother and wife. Gerald Murphy and family of Waterloo with Lyle Schmidt and son of Rodman, Jim Tindall and family of Wallingford, Walter Mammen and Sharon Murphy of Emmetsburg visited Mrs Emma Montgomery. Mrs Gerald Murphy and children will spend this week with Frank Murphy and Emma Montgomery in Ames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Curtis
Methodist Church
Graettinger
Indianola
John Poland
Melvin Bratrud
Ringsted
Kansas City
Mr. Poland
K. H. Poland
Gerald Murphy
Waterloo
Lyle Schmidt
Rodman
Jim Tindall
Wallingford
Walter Mammen
Sharon Murphy
Emmetsburg
Emma Montgomery
Frank Murphy
Aumcs
Morrissey Twins to Tour Europe with Scottish Highlanders
Jean and Jane Morrissey of Winterset, twin daughters of Mr and Mrs Bernard Morrissey, will end their year career with the Scottish Highlanders bagpipe band at the State University of Iowa, joining the band on its summer Europe tour. The Highlanders are the world's largest bagpipe band.
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Jean
Jane Morrissey
Bernard Morrissey
Winterset
Scottish Highlanders
State University of Iowa
Iowa City
Europe
Highlanders
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Treasury Department
Mystery Stars
Ed Herke
Iowa
Dean Kinsman
Algona Moument Go
Algona
Algona Monument
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Algona Monument Co
Algona, Iowa
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