Early Files
100 years ago
September 19, 1923
Radio fans tuned in Friday night and enjoyed the report right from the bat of the Dempsey- Firpo world championship fight at the Polo grounds in New York, in which Jack Dempsey still holds the championship in a 15-round fight. Jack won in the second round.
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100 years ago
September 12, 1923
The special election called for the purpose of voting on the proposition of purchasing the old high school property on Central Avenue and equipping it for Town Hall purposes at cost not exceeding $12,000 was held yesterday and carried. The Town Council may use this...
100 years ago
September 5, 1923
A well preserved skeleton of an elk or a black-tailed deer was dug out of a peat bed along the bank of a drainage ditch near the Henry Engelhorn farm, west of town, by the crew of bridge erectors working for Contractor Chas. W. Pedersen on the Imperial Highway. The...
100 years ago
September 5, 1923
A well preserved skeleton of an elk or black-tailed deer was dug out of a peat bed along the bank of a drainage ditch near the Henry Engelhorn farm, west of town, Thursday by the crew of bride erectors working for Contractor Chas. W. Pedersen on the Imperial Highway...
100 years ago
August 29, 1923
Mr. Albert L. Linter of Grove Township and Miss Anna Bakken of Northwood were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ole J. Bakken, southeast of Northwood.
One of the interesting features of the fair this year will be the baby contest from 12 to 2 p...
100 years ago
August 22, 1923
What might easily have been a fatal accident occurred when little Russell Clagett, who lives five miles east of Northwood, fell from the top of the hay-mound through a hay chute to the floor of the barn below, a distance of 18 feet and struck his head. The little...
100 years ago
August 15, 1923
The famous fall of Humpty Dumpty from the wall has nothing on the unprecedented drop in the price of gasoline that became effective yesterday morning in Northwood, a result of the recent stir made by Governor McMasters of South Dakota. Gasoline was 23.1 cents at the...
100 years ago
August 8, 1923
Mrs. H.H. Douglass returned on the early train from Chicago where she had been for a week attending the 16th annual meeting of the American Home Economies Assn., in session last week.
The firm of Thompto & Heiny, which has been a partnership since 1911, was...
100 years ago
August 1, 1923
The C.D. Cottingham, D.M. Coffman, F.R. Lyford and A.H. Patterson families picnicked at Clear Lake Sunday. They returned in the evening, bringing home with them Mabel Cottingham, Harold Lyford and Daniel Coffman, who had been spending the week there attending the...
100 years ago
July 25, 1923
At the home of Mrs. Carl T. Rone a number of demonstrations were given the Kensett Township women July 14 as follows: Mrs. F. Carter demonstrated her dress form; Mrs. Glen Scott, an ex-milliner, ably showed how to make braid hats; Mrs. Widen told how to make Swiss...