Early Files

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...
100 years ago July 18, 1923 The latest forward move of the farmers co-operative organizations in Northwood is the purchase by the Northwood Co-Operative Livestock Shipping Assn. of the stock yards formerly owned by the Thomson Elevator Co. The newly acquired yards will facilitate both the grain...
100 years ago July 11, 1923 W.H. Pixley, living north of town, was quite seriously injured when he fell 14 feet from a plank running across the top of the haymow to the hard road below. Mr. Pixley struck on his feet, splitting the large bone in his right leg and driving the bones of his foot up...
100 years ago July 6, 1923 Comrade M.S. Perkins was 77 years of age last Friday and his children who reside in this vicinity, aided by their mother, fixed up a surprise party. The planning of the surprise was largely owing to the activities of a daughter from North Dakota, who was here for the...

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