Hal Wells was the driver of the Spaulding racer, a lightweight two-passenger wooden body on a stock chasis, during the October 1913 River to River Road race. Photo shows Wells driving on 4th Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa during the race in which a world's…
In "A Home-coming,' published first in 1921 and again in 1926 in Suckow's first short story collection IOWA INTERIORS, Suckow offers one of the most complete pictures of the effects of the daughterly sacrifice. Laura Haviland returns to her birth…
In this striking story, a family is stunned at "Grandma's" appearance in her casket. Who is this person, her three married daughters wonder. She had lived their life so long---never her own. They "never thought of her a a person in herself." But her…
In this story, Elizabeth has just lost her beloved husband and is riddled with pain and suffering from the loss. She goes to visit Miss Gurney, whom she has always admired. Miss Gurney, we learn, first took care of her mother who was injured after a…
A platoon of Naval Air Cadets information on Central campus just before early morning found school classes there. More than 100 of these cadets now study at Central and the school’s flying near Pella.
This is the story of two sisters - Toldene and Henrietta. Toldene lives a contented spinster life with her cat. Her widowed sister, Henrietta, lives next door with her daughter and daughter's family. She does not share her sister's calm self-content.