Word: keokuk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madden, Thomas James of 15 Woodland Road, Minneapolis; St. Thomas Military Academy, St. Paul. Neale, Daniel Christopher of 2252 Folwell Street, St. Paul; Murray High, St. Paul. Palmquist, Keith Paul Stanley of 3901 South 13 Avenue, Minneapolis; Roosevelt High, Minneapolis. Parsons, Laurence White of 928 Exchange Street, Keokuk, Ia.; Keokuk Senior High, Schellinger, Richard Ralph of 920 6th Avenue, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Abraham Lincoln High, Council Bluffs. Harvard Club of Minnesota Scholarship...
Howard's father, Howard Robard Hughes Sr., was not exactly a nobody, although he came from a place the Ganos had never heard of-Keokuk, Iowa. Son of a Harvard-bred lawyer, he was expelled from several schools, but got through Harvard and hung out his shingle in Joplin, Mo. The lure of oil drew him to Texas. He made a small stake, bought a long Peerless car, met Allene Gano, married...
...Elsa Maxwell was born in a box at the opera in Keokuk, Iowa, during a performance of Mignon...
Every morning but Sunday at 7:30 some 400 women and a sprinkling of men crowd into Sardi's Hollywood restaurant. Some are local folks; others are from all over the Pacific Coast. Many are just off the train from Keokuk and points East. For their early-worminess they catch breakfast on the house, and two and a half hours of ribbing from the man who owns the show: fat, greying, double-chinned Tom Breneman, ex-vaudevillian...
...into railroading in 1926, when he spied T.P. & W. on the auction block, outbid giant Pennsylvania R.R. by paying $1,300,000 ($130,000 in cash). T.P. & W. hardly seemed a bargain, but it had one big asset: over its 239 miles of track (between Effner, Ind. and Keokuk, Iowa) transcontinental freight can save days by dodging the Chicago terminal bottleneck. McNear got to work and within 45 days the long-bankrupt road was making money. It has made money ever since. Last year it earned a neat $365,000 on $2,775,000 revenue...