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Homecoming of Iowa Authors and Journalists Shown
A Des Moines gathering celebrates a statewide homecoming of Iowa authors artists and journalists under the Iowa Press and Authors club led by James B Weaver Jr Miss Emily B Stapp and local hosts welcome more than a thousand Iowa book creators with lively readings reviews and a two day program including receptions at Car Chamberlain hotel and Gardner Cowles home lectures by Octave Thanet Hamlin Garland and Randall Parrish plus a large church gathering and speeches by notable writers and journalists from across Iowa and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D.N. Hurd
Des Moines
Iowa Press and Authors’ Club
James B. Weaver, Jr
Emily B. Stapp
Towa
State Historical Department
Iowa
Hawkeye State
Towa Press and
Authors’ Club
Chamberlain Hotel
Greenden
Green
Pennsylvania Avenue
Gardner Cowles
Weaver
Pleasant J. Mills
Sioux Falls
Lowa
Wm. Tell
the Forester
Hamlin Garland
Miss Stapp
Edward A. Steiner
University Place Church
Trowbridge
Massachusetts
Dlack Hawk
la Portes
John P. Irish
San Francisco
Cal
Randall Parrish
Alice French
Orjuve Thanet
Davenport
James S. Clarkson
Tarrytuion
James B. Weaver