Glee Club Tour Log From Nebraska March Diary
Friday to Monday entries recount travel from Pella to Omaha and Lincoln by bus Miss Central, with stops in Dennison Holland Adams Firth and Hickman. Members described crowds, a Dutch church visit, first concert in Holland, and a plea for letters as mileage costs rose.
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Glee Club
Miss Central
Pella
Des Moines
Ogden
Iowa
Hagen
Omaha
Dennison
Bonnie
Porter
Dr. Strickland
Central
Lincoln
Holland
Adams
Mrs. Liggett
Firth
Girls’ Glee Club
Mutual Dependence Across The Nation In One Farmer's Routine
A California farmer starts the day with parts from many states, wearing Connecticut clock and Chicago suspenders, washing with Cincinnati soap, and using Detroit overalls. He eats Chicago meat and Tennessee flour, cooked with Kansas lard on a St Louis stove, and guides a Kentucky mule fed by Kansas corn.
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California
Connecticut
Chicago
Detroit
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
Grand Rapids
Tennessee
Kansas
St. Louis
New York
Kentucky
Local Iowa notes mix of travel, funerals and farm life
A long column of small town events describes neighbors visiting Des Moines for a funeral, relatives traveling to Chattanooga and Portland, and local residents' travels to Ames, Mitchellville, Davenport, and Os kaloosa. Mentioned are rail and road journeys, a Carnegie Library housecleaning, medical operations on a VanderWerff child, and farm activity with grain seeding and weather in Central Missouri.
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R. A. Awtry
Missouri
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California Democrat
Goodrich Tires
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J. G. Sybenga
Dora Sybenga
H. D. van Zante
John Donai
H. P. van Gorp
Letta van Maanen
Emma Sybenga
Oskaloosa
Sybenga
James Verhey
Chattanooga
Tenn
Verhey
Oska
G. G. Thomassen
Mitchellville
Carnegie-Viersen
A. B. van Houweling
Portland
Oregon
van Houweling
D. van, Zante
F. A. Schnobrich
New Ulm
Minn
van Niewaal’s
John Hackett
Main Street
John Elscott
H. 0. Wormhoudt
Davenport
Marinus van Gorp
G. Kloosterman
Willard
Ivor Cook
Nevada
J. M. Cook
J. A. Edmond
Ames
Henry
Prudence Warner
Rebekah
Anie VanderWerff
C. F. Dykstra
Don
D. C. van Zante
de Forest
The
Lucile
Redfern
van Niewaal
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