Word: keokuk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moved west after the Revolution. She married one Daniel Brown, set up house with him in Amesville, Ohio, where he ran a general store. There four of her eight children were born. Then "Dan'l got the Western fever," and they moved to Iowa, to a farm near Keokuk...
...birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great bridges at Portland, Ore., St. Louis, Que bec, Toledo, Keokuk, Iowa, Celilo, Ore., Cincinnati, New London, Conn., Philadelphia, Memphis, Manhattan. He is now building one at Louisville. For his genius at bridge building one scientific society after another has granted him medals and prizes of honor: Franklin Institute (Potts and Franklin medals), Paris 1900 Exposition, Louisiana Purchase 1904 Exposition, Institute...
...have a Texas. The pilot house is built on top of the Texas. The members of the crew are quartered in the Texas on the large packets, leaving the cabin entirely for passengers. On small packets and tow boats the crew are quartered in the cabin. . . . E. CARROLL TABER Keokuk...
...Arthur Gustav Sorlie. From New Orleans came enormously rotund Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America First," "Farm Relief," "Inland Waterways to Double Exports," "National Flood Control to Prevent Disasters." Singing, grinning, shouting, backslapping, this horde...
Smaller cities: South Hadley, Mass., Montclair, Morristown, N. J.; Amsterdam, Oswego, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio; Appleton, Ripon. Green Bay, Wis.; Keokuk, Iowa City, Iowa; Hutchinson, Winfield, Kan.; Chickasha, Norman, Okla.; Denton, Austin. Tex.; Fairmont, Clarksburg...