Pheasants, football and town humor in Iowa paper
The column mixes hunting notes from open pheasant season in South Dakota and Iowa land, with St. Paul style tales. It highlights Wm. Bogart and other locals, city light cuts, the Ramblin Clown Band in Rock Rapids, and Iowa football buzz about Iowa City horizons. It also riffs on Lon Chaney replacement chatter and local civic thrift.
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Bogart
South Dakota
Towa
Bil
Buffalo Bill
Bill
Walter Hynes
Walter
Joe Akin
Tawarden
Wally Metcalf Leads Sprint Rumor Through Rock Valley
Town Public Service Co granted a franchise to serve Rock Valley with electricity. Wally Metcalf, famed sprinter, reportedly arrived first with the election report, beating rival Son? Human by a breath, while Son? provided only partial details to the Bee. Corn picking advances, with many farmers near harvest completion as weather cooperates. A local Legion convention at Rock Rapids drew dressed-up attendees, though not all were Legionnaires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramblin Clown
Rock Rapids
Legion
Sioux County
Town Public Service Co
Rock Valley
Wally
Metcalf
Light Company
Notting Flat
Charlie Chan
Hynes
Bee
Ancient German Sword Found in Iowa Farm Field
Tony Hughes, a Shenandoah area farmer, plowed a field unused for 40 years and uncovered a surface nine inches down a sword of apparent great age. The weapon is described as a duelists’ German style. The Irish settlement community questions how such a German sword ended up buried in the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Hughes
Shenandoah
Iowa
Germany
Baby Daley's 20 Foot Fall From Window
Gerald Edward Daley an 18 month old boy from Clinton Iowa plunged 20 feet from a second floor window to a cement sidewalk but sustained only a broken hip and is recovering Mrs Edward L Daley heard the child scream while on the telephone and found him after the fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Edward Daley
Clinton
Iowa
Gerald Edward
Edward L. Daley
Daley
Gerald
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Inwood
Main Street
Sam
Foone
Jerry
Vander Meer
University of Iowa Footaall
Iowa U
Towa City
Minnesota
Des Moiines Register
Four Horsemen
Ossie Simmons
Dlinois
Satuday
Lon Chaney
Wally Swanson
Licorrr
Tonacco Co
Carl
Lane Vanden Bosch
Idaho
Jonathans
W. C. Kooiman
Kessler
Tire Shop
Orpheum Theater
Gail Patrick
Jean Dagger
Zane Grey
Sun
Mon
Tue
Francis Lederer
Frances Dee
Wm. Powell
Luise Rainer In
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