Inland School Budget Talk and North Iowa Artifacts
School district discusses Title I use and lunch prices under Phase III Nixon controls aiming to keep lunch costs steady for 1973 74 despite higher food and labor costs. A New Zealand student athletic-activity requirement is noted. A local artifacts display featuring Indian points and a spearhead highlights early Iowa heritage and Roland Wikert’s archeological interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vern Carpenter
Graettinger
State Food Service
Board of Education
North
Iowa
Rotary International
Forest City
New Zealand
Artifact Hunter Roland Seeks Museum Showcase
Your Times notes Roland has discovered artifacts at a battle site and plans to offer his collection to a museum. He does not buy or sell items, believing the lore of Indian culture and artifact hunting to be a fascinating, blood-tinged pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland
Ray
Remembering Spencer’s Historic Circus Seasons and Tragedies
In Spencer two decades of traveling circuses shaped town life from Barnum and Bailey in 1905 to Yankee Robinson in 1919. The piece recalls storms threatening tents, elephants resisting rain, lions roaring, and crowds of families viewing animals, parades, and feats. It notes the shift to Shrine Circus and TV acts, with the circus lot becoming a housing project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
Spencer
Iowa
Cole Bros
Adam Fourpaugh
Barnum and Bailey
Yankee Robinson
Hagenbeck-Wallace
Ringling Bros
Delhi
Aladdin
Hannefords
Peking
Pallenberg
J. H. McAlavy
Verril Jones
Fred Buchanan High School
Hazel Hickey
Rush Ashcraft
Jules
Smith
L. la Fercentia
Ruth LaNova
Max Sabel
Eddie Sauer
Bartlesville
Okla
Coffeville
Kansas
Curtis
Jesse James
Shrine Circus
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John H. Ennen
Northwest
Miles E
Miley) Mahan
Roland Wikert
By Joseph Gabrielsen
Your Times
Don Buchan
Jud Thompson
Dickens
Atta
Jud
Wayne Barlow
Clear Lake
Frank Curtis
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!