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...Tent City. The carnival is not Iowan; the auto racers and rodeo folk are not Iowan; the best horseshoe pitcher is not Iowan; the livestock is not all Iowan. But the people who go to the Fair are Iowa itself, in all its friendliness, power, vulgarity and genius. And the place to see them best is in the Tent City, a unique colony pitched in a rolling, wooded 100-acre plot adjoining the Fair Grounds. These visitors, 10,000 strong, appear at the Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right...
Last week reporters singled out the doyenne of them all, Widow Agnes Kimer of St. Charles. Thirty-one years ago Mrs. Kimer went to her first Fair in a wagon. To her Grand Avenue tent she now goes in an automobile like the rest, but she is still sure that there is nothing like the Iowa State Fair. The nearest thing to it she ever saw was the Century of Progress two years ago. "It was fine." she admitted. "I thought it was as good as the State Fair...
...rush of final business grew heavier, the time came for Franklin Roosevelt to say farewell to his best friend and fondest admirer, Louis McHenry Howe. Secretary Howe was sufficiently recovered not to need his oxygen tent any longer, but is still too ill to be bothered with serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator...
...born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall apart and bad weather set in last week, the Umbachs moved to a 4-ft. cement culvert that drains rainwater from...
Osterville, Cape Cod, was the scene of the reunion of the twenty-year Class yesterday. Members of the Class are expected back, however, for the festivities in Cambridge today. Tomorrow they will have their headquarters in Thayer 3, and luncheon will be served at the alumni tent...