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...speaker is a retired furniture dealer, not a preacher or philosopher. As chairman of the Kossuth County Hospital in Algona, Iowa, he is welcoming some 700 townspeople to a cookie-and-punch open house at the just-completed John and Agnes Dreesman Memorial Addition...
Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly called the Advance. His great & good friend was the rival paper's editor. Harvey Ingham. In 1902 Editor Ingham went to Des Moines to edit the down-at-heel Register & Leader, persuaded his friend Cowles to buy the paper. Price: $300,000. What Mr. Cowles thought he was buying...
...farm chores, attended common school, grew tall and solid. Ambitious, he helped pay his way through Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa) which graduated him in 1898. He studied law at Iowa State University, hung out his shingle at the age of 26 in the town of Algona. Two years later he married Miss Myrtle Call who bore him a son, a daughter. For four years he was prosecuting attorney for Kossuth Co., spoke at Republican rallies, advanced to the Republican State Central Committee. Once he was defeated for the State Legislature. In 1918 he was elected to Congress where...
...does not smoke or chew. When angered, he swears vigorously. His flashy temper quickly subsides. Once he taught Sunday school in Algona. A Congregationalist, he used to attend the same church as President Coolidge until the crowds drove him away...
...tilt a Yale paper will be given to both teams). The Harvard men did their writing in a classroom along with 140 other students. The same rules applied, except that the Harvard team was not allowed to smoke. Seven members held scholarships; one, Richard T. Sherman of Algona, Iowa, had been editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson; another, Henry T. Dolan, suffering a fractured kneecap, took his examination in a hospital...