First liquid fueled rocket launched by Goddard 40 years ago
Dr. Robert Goddard’s liquid fueled rocket flight on March 15, 1926 near Auburn Massachusetts lasted about 2.5 seconds, rising to 411 feet before landing 184 feet away. The Clark University physicist, age 43, pioneered modern rocketry, later commemorated in a 1964 Clark ceremony.
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Grandview Club Hosts Fashion and Talks Meeting
The Grandview Federated club met at the Grandview schoolhouse with Mildred Bieri as hostess, featuring a "Challenging Hands" theme and 36 L and M senior girls as guests. Devotions on Ruth were led by Pat Carroll, and 24 members shared post graduation activities. Music by Kathrin Liebermecht accompanied a "Fat Fashion Premiere" and a hair-dressing demonstration by Vera Lou Dickey. A county convention award for towels by Iowa blind women was announced for Oakville on March 17. The club planned its April 14 meeting, with a program including a "Salad Bowl" and films "The Communist Weapon of Allure" and "Art or Trash?" A separate Women's Organization event was noted for March 17, with a potluck. News also covered local visits and a National Geographic note on the Tree of Tenere, plus a historical tidbit about gunpowder and TNT.
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Grandview Federated Club
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L and M
Ruth
Pat Carroll
Kathrin Liebermecht
Iowa Commission For the Blind
Blind Women of
Iowa
Oakville
Pat Bonnichsen
Marillyn Schlutz
Sandra Hallett
Marilyn Schlutz
Janelle Buster
Vera Lou Dickey
Suzanne Battenhagen
Florence Davis
Helen Angerer
Devo
West Liberty Floriculture Society Marks 70th Anniversary
West Liberty Floriculture Society met at Mrs Agnes Waiters home with 27 members present to observe the 70th anniversary of the group founded in January 1896. Mrs Elsie Homes read Washington Carver life story tied to the society’s origins and Mrs Miriam Boden reviewed the first 25 years. Co hosts were Mrs H B Melick Mrs L M McGuire and Miss Elizabeth Anderson. Two members, Phillip Jarrett and Sherman Bragg, were listed as patients in Mercy hospital Iowa City after heart attacks.
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Floriculture Society
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George Washington Carver
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H. B. Melick
L. M. McGuire
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Phillip Jarrett
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Sherman Bragg
Contempo bottle debuts in Sunny Brook whiskey hype
A marketing blitz claims new smoothness mildness smartness and popularity for Sunny Brook whiskey. It touts an extra process improving taste, cites a sample of 6783 tasters, and hails the Contempo bottle as a striking update reminiscent of Sunny Brook’s 1891 heyday.
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