Early Files
100 years ago
November 7, 1923
Mrs. Harry Douglas, after two strenuous nights as a member of the home talent cast of “Back to the Farm,” left on the 3 a.m. Rock Island train for Des Moines, where she appeared as one of the speakers in the Home Economics department of the Iowa State Teachers’...
100 years ago
October 31, 1923
Dr. O.L. Aurdal, aged 76 years, at one time a veterinary practitioner of Northwood, died suddenly Monday evening at the home of his nephew, L.A. Aurdal, in Deer Creek Township, where he had been making his home for the past two years.
From the Manly Signal: The...
100 years ago
October 24, 1923
The comedy drama, “Back to the Farm” will be presented by the Grove Township Farm Bureau, at the Northwood Theatre. For some time the members of the cast, under the direction of D.L. Carey, have been working hard at rehearsals.
Golfers of Northwood are now intensely...
100 years ago
October 17, 1923
A.R. Trenda, of Mason City, was in Northwood arranging to move here having rented the basement of the Thompson building in which to conduct a tailoring and pressing establishment. Mr. Trenda is a pleasant appearing young man and is a son-in-law of K.A. Mostrom of...
100 years ago
October 10, 1923
Nels Brunsvold, who suffered a stroke of paralysis on his entire right side and passed away on October 8 at his home two miles north of Hanlontown. Had he survived until October 13, he would have filled his 94th year.
On September 22, Mr. Earl Arzberg of Union...
100 years ago
October 3, 1923
Miss Jeanette Sabin, 1923 Northwood High graduate, and daughter of Mayor and Mrs. E.M. Sabin of Northwood, won distinction at Northwestern University in Chicago. She was pronounced as one of the most mentally alert of the 10,000 students enrolled.
Rev. T. Sigmond...
100 years ago
September 26, 1923
Mrs. K. Helgeland, who on last August 28, celebrated her 90th birthday in a most fitting manner with a large gathering of her children and old friends, died at the home of her son, Andrew Helgeland, five miles west of town, where she had resided for some years....
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.
Headed...
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...