A broadside distributed to publicize the arrival of Flunk Day, an annually occurring student skip day at Coe College. The term "drydockers' refers to students who spent an inordinate amount of the at the campus grill, the Dry Dock.
This is a photograph taken of Samira Ann Hobbs Phillips, the first school teacher in Mahaska County, Iowa, in 1844. The first schoolhouse in Mahaska County was located approximately two miles east of Oskaloosa. Fighting the elements, heavy…
A broadside distributed to publicize the arrival of Flunk Day, an annually occurring student skip day at Coe College, this item is quite similar to that which announced Flunk Day in 1923.
After the second Oskaloosa High School was constructed in 1897, it did not take long before the school population needed additional space. Therefore, in 1917 an addition was made to the northeast corner of the building. In 1937, a northwest wing…
