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*Old W. H. Cowles was a distant cousin of Owners Gardner and John Cowles of Look, the Des Moines Register and Tribune, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, etc.
As Dwight Eisenhower boarded the cruiser Des Moines at Naples, the Mediterranean was frothing into a bad storm. His green & gold SHAPE flag, flying over a naval vessel for the first time, was whipped to shreds by 60-mile winds. Ike himself skittered across rolling decks, disappeared into admiral'...
3.Des Moines.
Pastor Charles W. Phillips of Des Moines' First Unitarian Church testified that many theologians are in "complete disagreement" over Christianity's fundamental principles. Four more ministers-two Lutherans, a Baptist and an Episcopalian-did their earnest best, and made confusion worse confounded.
Died. F. W. Fitch, 81, shampoo millionaire ("Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo," "Fitch's Ideal Hair Tonic"); in Des Moines. Born into a poor Iowa family, he started work at eight as a farmhand, became a barber and concocted a tonic that temporarily removed dandruff. When he found...