Rol screenings and factory notes in October update
Rol screenings Tuesday featured visitors from Honolulu and Davenport. 2000 Rolscreens will be installed in Sunnybrook Military hospital for Canadian war veterans. A new automatic slat machine will replace the old one after recent malfunctions. A gas powered fork lift was delivered to improve load handling. Sports director don Hackett and Bill Riley will broadcast Iowa State vs Kansas State from Manhattan, Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stu Kuyper
Toronto
Canada
Sunnybrook Military Hospital
Kent
Don Hackett
Speert
Anc
Bill Riley
Manhattan
Kan
Iowa State Seven
Kansas State
Des Moines
Iowa's First Term of School Taught in 1830 Log Cabin
Des Moines Chronicle reproduces a photograph of Jennings Kerryman Towa's first teacher and his three month term taught October to December 1830 in Lee County. The 10 by 12 foot log cabin site is now submerged twenty feet under water by a dam created lake. The old photo was taken by J. W. Campbell in 1897.
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Emory H. English
Des Moines
The
Chronicle
Kerryman Jennings
Towa
Lee County
J. W. Campbell
Iowa Colleges and Universities in the Centennial Era
A historical survey traces Iowa higher education from early village schools to a landscape of private colleges and robust state universities. It highlights Mount Pleasant College, Iowa Wesleyan, Grinnell College, and several foundations in Dubuque, Grinnell, Cedar Rapids, and Des Moines, plus the emergence of the State University of Iowa, Iowa State College, and Iowa State Teachers College, noting growth, mergers, and long-standing campus traditions across 100 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suill
Iowa
Iowa State College
Ames
State University of Iowa
Iowa City
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Burlington University
Iowa College
Davenport
Iowa City College
Iowa City University
Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute
Wesleyan
Iowa Wesleyan College
Grinnell
Grinnell College
Mount Pleasant Institute
Child of the Church
Mount Pleasant
St. Paphael’s Seminary
Dubuque
Loras College
Loras
Columbia College
Clarke College For Women
St. Mary’s Female Academy
Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Iowa Wesleyan
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Collegiate Institute
University of
Presbyterian Church
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Iowa Conference
Central College
Pella
Dutch Reformed Church
Americ Simpson College
Indianola
Luther College
Decorah
Parsons College
Fairfield
William Penn College
Oskaloosa
Buena Vista College
Storm Lake
Western Union College
LeMars
Morningside College
Sioux City
John Fletcher College
St. Ambrose College
Drake University
Des Moines
Briar Cliff College For
Wartburg College
Waverly
Marycrest College
Pioneer
Dorothea Tomlinson
Fire loss in U.S. 1940 41 surpasses £400 million English blitz damage
During 1940 41 U S fire losses exceeded 400 million dollars, a figure comparable to or greater than the German incendiary damage suffered by England in the same period, highlighting vast fire devastation in the United States and wartime effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
England
LITTLE DUTCH CONTINUES ON FRONT PAGE
The ball advanced to the 12 yard line as Indianola's Jim Nutt passed to Hooper who scored. Nutt added the extra point and the game was sealed as Pella failed to score in the final minutes. Lineups list many players for Nevris and Pella with several substitutions noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianola
Jim Nutt
Hooper
Nutt
Pella
Seave
Cal led the King Osceola phone prize winner
The Osceola Iowa Telephone Company installed dial telephones and offered a free long distance call to the 100th user. Mrs I Karr won and called the King of England, speaking with the royal secretary as a grateful plain housewife. The note praises wartime aid and hopes for lasting peace. Also a cold weather recipe tip for spiced biscuits with curry, mustard, and cheese appearances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osceola, Iowa
II. Karr
England
Royal Palace
U. S
Electrical Changes Occur in Green Leaves of Plants
Observation shows plants exhibit electrical signals in leaf veins during stimuli. Researchers measure voltage shifts as ions move, indicating rapid signaling within the vascular tissue. Such signals align with known plant response mechanisms to light touch and damage.
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Bud" Leeper
Honolulu
T. H
Bud
Pearl Harbor
Jim Deah
Waterloo
W. J. Henderson
L. W. Ramsey Advertising Agency
Marion Toom
Marvin
Melvin Rumbaugh
Beethoven
Groenenboom
Poland
China
Southern Iowa Fair Grounds
Oskalooan, Iowa
Gysbert Groenenboom
Sigourney, Iowa
Gysbert
Rose Hill
Julian Wymore & Sons Farm
Loren A.wymore
Monroe
Prairie City
Silks Bonis Care
Iowa Centennial Committee
Aasowa
Tows
Iowaland
Iowa Wesleyan University
Yale
Andover College
Lowa
Daenport
Town College
Lowa College
Grinnell University
me—Iowa College
Towa State Teachers College
Dick Leydens
New Sharon
Rock Road
Edmundson Park
Beacon
Givin
Bath
Frank Reed
Tom Brown
E. L. and
J. C. Anderson
Nevris LE Neshit Ford
Ler Killam
May
Eh Nalverson
Heiden Chamberly
Craft
Popmans
Keen Reethoven
Leoden Vos
Burton LJ van Berkum
RH van Wyk
Hocksema
Lauten Saeh
van Zee
Kloostra
van Touweling
Menninga
Weyers
Dale Vos
Traiide
Cornie Vander Zyl
Sally Sully
Ralph Vander Zyl
Newton Kilduff
Reich Auctioneering School
Mason City
van Gorp Hatchery
Fay Diy
Buckle
Colfax Sales Company
First National Bank of Colfax
Earl Shields
Warrick Brothers
Monroe, Iowa
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