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Category: Dexter (Iowa) History

January 4, 2023January 4, 2023joynealkidney

Tonsillectomies, 1951

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022joynealkidney

Annual Thanksgiving Dexter-Earlham Game Next Thursday [1931?]

November 7, 2022November 7, 2022joynealkidney

“Thanksgiving Day As Observed In This Community” [Dexter, Iowa, 1920s]

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022joynealkidney

GI Night School and President Truman’s Platform

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022joynealkidney

Small Town Barber (poem)

June 20, 2022June 20, 2022joynealkidney

Clint Knee, notable Perry Lawman, part of Bonnie and Clyde Posse

February 7, 2022February 9, 2022joynealkidney

Sweet Success Story by Rod Stanley, Dexter Historian

January 19, 2022January 19, 2023joynealkidney

1955 United Plane Crash near Dexter, Iowa

January 14, 2022January 14, 2022joynealkidney

O.S. (Orlando Swain) Neal, born January 14, 1868

January 5, 2022February 9, 2022joynealkidney

Nancy and the “Wilson Schoolbus”

November 22, 2021September 17, 2022joynealkidney

Annual Dexter-Earlham Thanksgiving Gridiron Clash

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021joynealkidney

Dexter’s 1916 Community Building AKA the “Roundhouse”

October 1, 2021October 1, 2021joynealkidney

Ruby Emma Blohm Neal, born October 1, 1898

June 16, 2021September 21, 2022joynealkidney

Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression – List of Chapters

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021joynealkidney

Keeping the Dexter Town Pump Oiled: a WPA Job During the 1930s

March 17, 2021March 17, 2021joynealkidney

Dexter (Iowa) Essentially a College Town–Dexter Normal College

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021joynealkidney

Odd Fellows Lodge by Bryon Weesner, Dexter Historian

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021joynealkidney

Grandma’s Apron: Guest Blogger Grandma Ruby (Blohm) Neal

September 18, 2020July 21, 2022joynealkidney

President Truman and the 1948 National Plowing Match at Dexter, Iowa

September 10, 2020January 21, 2022joynealkidney

Clell F. Hoy, a Dexterite Making History and Preserving It

July 24, 2020February 11, 2021joynealkidney

Girl Scouts, Dexter, Iowa–1933

July 1, 2020February 11, 2021joynealkidney

Kenneth Neal (1895-1970)

June 30, 2020June 9, 2020joynealkidney

Mrs. Potts Sadiron

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020joynealkidney

Eddie Rickenbacker–America’s World War I Ace of Aces–Landed at Dexter, Iowa

October 24, 2019May 26, 2021joynealkidney

World-Famous Surgeon, Dr. Nelson M. Percy, from Dexter, Iowa

October 17, 2019September 26, 2019joynealkidney

The Dexter (Iowa) Sentinel

October 10, 2019September 19, 2020joynealkidney

Dexter (Iowa) Banks

October 3, 2019September 27, 2019joynealkidney

Tour of the Dexter (Iowa) Museum

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019joynealkidney

Dexter Museum–New Displays

September 12, 2019January 21, 2021joynealkidney

Three Presidents Glimpse Dexter, Iowa–One Gives a Major Speech

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