Early Files
100 years ago
October 8, 1924
The first football game of the season for Northwood High was played on the home field last Friday when Lake Mills was defeated 27-0.
A LaFollette- Wheeler meeting held at the Northwood Theatre last evening attracted an audience that filled the theatre. S.R. Torgeson...
100 years ago
October 1, 1924
N.T. Kjerland, aged 97 years, seven months and 15 days, probably the oldest person in Worth County, died in his home in southeast Northwood last Friday morning at four o’clock.
Mrs. Mary Stratton, North Iowa’s pretty fortune teller under the name of Madame Bell and...
100 years ago
September 24, 1924
The coroner’s inquest after the death of Adee Stratton in Cerro Gordo county last week developed that general tuberculosis was the cause of the former Manly man’s demise.
Tuesday night, September 23, a number of businessmen and farmers of this vicinity gathered at...
100 years ago
September 17, 1924
Wednesday, the opening date of the Worth County Fair, developed into a gloomy, chilly, showery day shortly before noon and probably hindered some entries which would otherwise have come to the exhibition. This was not the case with livestock, however, as the...
100 years ago
September 10, 1924
Northwood is bad for the booze boys — Constable H.L. Nissen of Hanlontown arrested James F. Dunbar of Mason City on a warrant charging him with transporting intoxicated liquor illegally. Dunbar was brought to Northwood and arraigned before Mayor Sabin. He was...
100 years ago
September 3, 1924
Death has again entered the ranks of the veterans of the Civil war in this community and the rapidly thinning membership of the Randall Post of the G.A.R. is called upon to part with one of its most active workers. Andrew H. Speedling, aged 77, passed away at his...
100 years ago
August 27, 1924
Progressive Robert LaFollette has picked up quite a few votes in the Anchor’s presidential straw vote, but President Cooledge still leads the pack, and has picked up even more votes.
Ed Eichelberger of Northwood passed away at the state hospital at Cherokee on August...
100 years ago
August 20, 1924
A male quartet of C.H. Dwelle, L.T. Dillon, C.R. Heiny and Rev. Shaffer sang at the Eckert funeral.
County Attorney Paul G. Thonn and Miss Agness Sophie Torgerson were united in marriage by the bride’s father, Rev. A.J. Torgerson, at the bride’s home just west of...
Dear Savvy Senior,
How does Medicare cover cataract surgery? My eye doctor recently told me I’ve developed cataracts and should consider making plans for surgery in the next year or so.
Almost 67
Dear Almost,
Like gray hair and wrinkles, cataracts are an inevitable part of the aging process....
100 years ago
August 20, 1924
Rush T. Wagner, who lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wagner, in Northwood for a number of years and attended the local schools, will sail August 20 for the British province of Rhodesia in southeast Africa, where he will do agricultural mission work among...