Santa’s Stomach Trouble and Janie’s Christmas Party
The piece describes a school’s Christmas activities with a Santa play rehearsal and art projects. It recounts in detail Janie’s plan for a Christmas party for Mr. Robin Redbreast, inviting Dolly Dimpels and Teddy Bear, preparing dates and sandwiches, and the humorous scenes of guests arriving and Mr. Robin joining the party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janie
Robin Readbreast
Dolly Dimpels
Dolly Dimpel
Dolly
Teddy Bear
Robin Redbreast
Dally Dimpels
Teddy
Mr. Robin Redbreast
Mr. Robin
Santa Claus Is Watching At MHS Grades
In a school column Doris Jean Luse notes Christmas cheer among students and staff. Reports praise pupils as cherubs under Santa’s imagined eye while listing weekly menus, sports updates, classroom activities, and holiday decorations. The piece references basketball teams, a broken stage basket, F F A postponements, and a Christmas program in progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Santa
Doris Jean Luse
MHS
Blakesburg
Moravia
Troy Township
Mystic
Marilyn H
Mary Rose Main
Edna MaeLuse
George T
John Hiner
St. Nicholas
Holland
Bent
Rock Island Railroad Surveyed in 1853
Grenville M. Dodge led the first Iowa railroad survey for the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company, starting May 17 at Rock Island. The crew tracked Cedar, Bear, and Des Moines valleys, crossed Four-mile Creek into Des Moines, and selected depot grounds near the current Rock Island station as fever and age took their toll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Grenville M. Dodge
Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company
Dodge
Mississippi
Rock Island
Mississippi River
Antoine le Claire
the Palimpsest
The
State Historical Society
Cedar River
Moscow
Iowa City
Missouri River
Old Man’s Creek
Iowa Valley
Marengo
Bear Creek
Grinnell
Skunk
Newton
Des Moines
Reccoon
Beaver Creek
Middle
Troubled East Nishnabotna ford near Council Bluffs noted
The article recalls fording troubles on the East Nishnabotna north of Extra in Council Bluffs reached on November 22. It mentions Gren ville M. Dodge surveying the Rock Island railroad route over six months. Local social notes list Lewis Clark Homer Brown Charley Smith Billy Brown Edward and Arthur Points LeRoy Brown Moravia callers and visits by Mrs McGrory Ed DeLong Tom McCrory and others in Albia Centerville and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nishnabotna
Council Bluffs
Grenville M. Dodge
Rock Island
Lewis Clark
Homer Brown
Albia
Charley Smith
Billy Brown
Edward
Arthur Points
LeRoy Brown
X “A McGrory
Centerville
Ed DeLong
Harry Robinson
Edward Points
Harold Brown
Tom McCrory
Nan
Kate McCrory
C. G. Smith
Moravia
Otha Taylor
Lawrence Warn
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America
Donald Davis
Don Orelup
Betty Huff
Mary Lou Main
S. Hewsbasket
Jessadine Laws
Margaret Burton
Eugene Field
LE Creek
Billy Broshar
Robe
Pott’s Men’s Shop
Albia, Iowa
Mt. Pleasant
Frank Swaim Moravia
Miles Nervine
DR. Miles Nervine
Frank Swaim
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