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Category: Turn of Century

May 1, 2020December 24, 2021joynealkidney

A May Day Tragedy in 1892

March 27, 2020February 2, 2021joynealkidney

A cow for her watch

December 23, 2019December 24, 2021joynealkidney

The Great Influenza Pandemic and Christmas 1919

July 3, 2019July 1, 2022joynealkidney

Independence Day 1907

November 9, 2018February 28, 2022joynealkidney

Armistice 1918

July 6, 2018February 10, 2022joynealkidney

An Antique Powder Box and Des Moines’ Salisbury House

June 8, 2018February 9, 2021joynealkidney

Liza Jane Train–Part 2

June 1, 2018February 9, 2021joynealkidney

Liza Jane Train–Part 1

May 31, 2018December 16, 2018joynealkidney

Blohm’s Grocery

May 29, 2018February 7, 2022joynealkidney

World War I Reaches into Guthrie County

March 9, 2018December 19, 2021joynealkidney

Danny Wilson’s Mastoid Operation

March 1, 2018February 26, 2022joynealkidney

Leora Goff Attends Connrardy College

February 27, 2018December 15, 2018joynealkidney

Grandpap Davy Jordan (1842-1913)

February 19, 2018December 15, 2018joynealkidney

Rhoda (Marshall) Neal 1837-1920

February 13, 2018February 13, 2022joynealkidney

Leora’s Almost Valentine’s Day Wedding

January 11, 2018September 30, 2020joynealkidney

Famous Among the Red Hog Men

December 28, 2017February 6, 2022joynealkidney

A Perplexing Ancestor

December 14, 2017December 6, 2019joynealkidney

The Lefty

May 24, 2017March 1, 2021joynealkidney

The Nightwatchman, after Stuart’s Died from a Bank Holdup

May 6, 2017July 3, 2020joynealkidney

Sherd Goff, Popcorn King of Guthrie County, Iowa

March 13, 2017March 29, 2021joynealkidney

Clabe gives a “shingle bob” to his wife

March 13, 2017September 29, 2018joynealkidney

Forgotten stories of losing children

March 13, 2017July 10, 2018joynealkidney

Christmas 1913

March 13, 2017September 18, 2021joynealkidney

Brown Taffeta

March 13, 2017February 14, 2022joynealkidney

The house on the hill

March 13, 2017January 17, 2022joynealkidney

Ben Black’s Children (poem)

March 13, 2017April 22, 2019joynealkidney

Easter 1925–green pongee frock and a hat with cherries

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