Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most notable living family of twins in the U. S. was produced by Mrs. Andrew Koger of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and her husband, Andrew Koger, carpenter. They have four sets of twins healthy and growing, named, according to the unfortunate habit of emphasizing the abnormality of twinship by imposing artificial likenesses, Clyde, Claude, Addie, Abbie, Floyd, Lloyd, Jean and Jeannette...
...never could the sticky, muggy afternoons of the middle west, where I grew up. We keep our houses closed and cool and dark, and open them to the almost unfailing night breeze. We go cool and peacefully to sleep-as one does not in July and August in Iowa-and long before morning we grope for blankets...
This was a surprise to many a person who had believed Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, inspired. A college son of a village candy-store-keeper, he turned millionaire soon after his 1921 patent for Esquimo pies...
...from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...
...Haven, Sabin Carr of Yale and Dubuque, Iowa, holder of the world's pole-vault record, failed to jump 14 feet...