Remarkable Lake Okoboji swim by two youths aged sixteen
Jannag reports a pair from Milford and Omaha, Muriel Craig and Harold Buffet, swam across Lake Okoboji at its widest point on August 26. The feat, impressive for their ages, drew a large crowd and created a local sensation around the lake district.
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Des Moines
Iowa
E. E. Herridge
Milford
Dickinson County
Muriel Craig
John H. Craig
Tripp
South Dakota
Ledger
Harold Buffet
Ernest Buffet
Omaha
Lake
Okoboji
Lake District
Address Delivered at Pella's Seventy Fifth Anniversary
Jesse Curtis, now of San Bernardino California, delivers a commemorative address at Pella's seventy fifth anniversary recalling Holland settlers and Central College. He traces Iowa and U S growth since founding, praises religious commitment and learning, notes old and new cities, and honors pioneers and their descendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Curtis
Pella
Curtis
San Bernardino
California
Holland
United States
Towa
Alan Briggs
Augustus Caesar Dodge
George W. Jones
James K. Polk
Roger A. Tawney
Dred Scott
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
John Calhoun
United States Senate
John Quincy Adams
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Williams Jennings Bryan
Woodrow Wilson
Pesident Harding
Queen Victoria
England
Louis Napoleon
France
William 1I
Netherlands
Bismark
Gladstone
Europe
Iowa
U. S
General Fremont
Commodore Stockton
Union
Mexico
Darwin
Chicago
Los Angeles
America
Kingdom of Netherlands
Intergent
Ike
Plymouth Rock
Iowa Central University
B.H. Scar
Ewthne Gunn
Amos N. Currier
C. A. Stoddard
Maine
Central College
Macedonia
Phillip
Macedon
Phillips
Alexander the Great
Alexander
Aristotle
Atlantic
Prairies
Austria
Ferdinand
Louis Phillipe
Republic of
Germany
Carl Schurz
Italy
Pious IX
Rome
Mahaska Co Farm Bureau Picnic Set for Oct 13
The Mahaska County Farm Bureau invites families to a Friday October 13 picnic at the Southern Iowa Fair Grounds with Ed Cunningham or Chase Hunt possible as speakers. Dittmer will discuss beekeeping demonstrations at 10:80 a.m. and a full program includes contests, free coffee, and 4 H activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau Organization
Clay County
County Bankers’ Association
Bankers’ Association
Farmers’ Organization
Ed Cunningham
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Chase Hunt
Cunningham
U. S
Cooperative Livestock Commission
Dittmer
Southern
Iowa Fair Grounds
County Teacher Institute
Homecoming Day Set At State Teachers College Cedar Falls
October 21 has been designated homecoming at Cedar Falls State Teachers College. Thousands of graduates are expected to attend festivities as the enrollment for the term reaches a record high, with twelve new faculty members added to meet instruction needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Murphy
University of Iowa
The
American Legion
New Orleans
Mr. Murphy
Paul J. Curry
Ida Grove
State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
True Fortitude and Quiet Self Possession
A reflective quotation on true fortitude as steady self mastery and unwavering duty in face of evil or danger, attributed to Locke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locke
Do You Suffer From Backache or Pain Over Kidneys
Customer letter from Cedar Rapids Iowa praising Dr Pierce's Anure Anuric Tablets for relief from backache and kidney pains. Reuben Spickler describes improvement after use and urges others to try the remedy. Instructions say to send 10 cents for a trial package to Dr. Pierce Invalids Hotel Buffalo New York and to write for free medical advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Dr. Pierce
Reuben Spickler
Std Ave. Baat
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L F. van Zeln
Western Newmaper Union
J. W. Jannag
George W. Schee
Ida Haroldson
Schee
Primghar
O'Brien
C. G. Rice
Council Bluffs
Cravan V. Gardner
Deadwood
J. Ogle
University of Vermont
Mr. Rice
Professor Ogle
Rev. Rice
Monroe
Oskaloosa
J. F. McNeil
Lincoln
Board of Supervisors
Cherokee County
Henry O'Neal
Peter Dunn
Langwin
John O’connell
O'Neal
Dunn's
George Jackson
Osceola
Clarke County
Missourri
Jackson
Knights of Pythias of
Winterset
Ottumwa
Tracy
iMarion County
George Chilcoate
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Polk County
Brandt
William Moellering
Garnaville
Clayton County
Eldon L. Kepford
Hawarden
Henry A. Ludeke
Klemme
Hancock County
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Appanoose County
Centerville
Guy Campbell
Kaiser
Campbell
Lee
Frank Abbott
W. W. Willams
Ito
Jerry Jenks
James Rice
Osceola Sentinel
Jenks
Judge Rice
Green Castle
Indiana
Mahaska Co. Farm Bureau
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