Red Men of Iowa Story Told at Rotary Luncheon
Bruce E. Mahan, associate editor of the Iowa State Historical Society, lectured on Iowa Indian history. He covered tribes from Sauk and Fox to Meskwaki and Sioux, detailing treaties, removals, and the fading of native lands as white settlement expanded. The talk included notes on Poweshiek and Keokuk and cited a pageant about the Indian story used in Tow History Week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Rotary Club
Fn Hotel
Russell Lamson Today
Bruce E. Mahan
Towa
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Omaha
Missouri River
Nebraska
Misssouri
Mississippi
Spirit Lake
Tania County
Grimes
Annwal
Black Hawk
Keokuk
Mahaska
Wapello
War Eagle
Iie
Poweshiek
Mississippi Valley
Tawa
Dangular
Lee County
Atissouri
Oho
Pottawattamie
Ie Pais
Sowa
Uhre
Hanson to Attend Crosley Radio Distributors Convention
John Hanson president of Standard Battery and Electric Co will attend the sixth annual Crosley Radio Distributors convention May 16 at Cincinnati. The Iowa distributor will tour Crosley plants and see production at peak with entertainment on the Obie River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hanson
Standard Battery & Electric Co
Crosley Radio Distributors
Cincinnati
Crosley
Iowa
Crosley Company
Obie River
Wau-cosh-au-she and His Fox Indians Battle Sioux in Butler County
The article recounts Wau-cosh-au-she leading the Fox and Sac and Fox bands against Sioux in Butler County during a hunting-ground dispute ca. 1837. It notes the strategy, ambush misdirection at the Otter River area, and a wounded chief sending details to Rock Island, with broader context on neutral strip and timber belt in Bremer County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wau-cosh-au-she
Butler County
Wapesepineci
Gedar
Otter River
Otteriver
Rock Island
Bremer
Bremer County
Albert Lea
Wisconsin Territory
Cedar River
Otter Creek
Turkey Foot Forks
Union Township
Black Hawk County
Visit of Sac and Fox Indians to Davenport grave noted
The region at the junction of the Shell Rock river and Red Cedar river is cited as a famed hunting ground. A sole reference aside from one other source notes Wau-cosh-au-she. Fulton’s 1882 Red Men of Town recounts a Sac and Fox delegation visiting Col. George Davenport’s grave in Rock Island on July 4, 1845, inscribing virtues on a white post and a war club ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shell Rock River
West Branch
Red Cedar River
Fulton
Town
Col
George Davenport
Rock Island
Esch
MELLO-GLO Face Powder Promises All-Weather Beauty
An advertisement touts MELLO-GLO face powder made by a new French process. It claims to protect complexions in all kinds of weather without drying the skin or clogging pores and staying longer on the face. Lauerman's markets the product as wonderful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lauerman
Adv
Shipley Pride
Tanlac Promises Relief From Gas Indigestion Women Claim
An advertisement touts Tanlac for indigestion gas bloating and dizziness with a testimonial from Mrs Arvena Bowers of Topeka Kansas claiming five years of symptoms improved weight by 10 pounds after use. It asserts Tanlac is a pure herbal remedy recognized by the US Pharmacopoeia and offers a money back guarantee if it fails to help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arvena Bowers
Jackson St. Topeka
Kans
Tanlac
United States Ph
Chief of Pox tribe depicted in war party record
The fragment records ten told, four enemy slain with one child among captives. Wau-co-shaw-she bears a fox plume indicating a Pox chief. Warrior Pau-tau-co-to shown by 1320 headless figures as Sioux slain. The hunting party’s leader at Cedar Fork and Ghell Rock rivers is named Musquakle with spelling variations noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iown
Hartman
America
Nagua
Java
United States
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Pau-tau-co-to
Cedar
Ghell Rock
Also Mentioned on This Page
RED Men
Happy Land
State
Hanson
Butler
H. L. Williams
Drake
St. Louis
Lowry
Red Cedar
Wau-cosh-au
Washington
Doan
Bruce L. Lindsay
2Nd St
Cedar Apids
Foster-Mizpurn Co
Mig. Chem
Buffalo
Waterloo
Sweeney Company
New England
Entz Cafe
First National Bank
France
van Raalte
Comet
Shipley Pride Sheets
Shipley
Matlinson
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!