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Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous
May
05
License Plate Letters — KMA
KMA 960 AM is one of Iowa’s oldest radio stations. Its call letters, chosen specifically by the May Seed & Nursery Co., mean “Keep Millions Advised.” The May family owned the station from its beginning in 1925 until 2019. Here … Continue reading
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Apr
20
Porker up
The principal at Duncombe Elementary in Fort Dodge (not Duncombe) kissed a pig to make good on a student fundraiser promise. It wasn’t a piglet, either. Come for the fourth-grader’s shocked face, stay for the pigs doing…what pigs do. From the … Continue reading
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Apr
02
Your call cannot be completed as dialed, er, tapped
June 14, 2011: A (non-functioning) wonder of the ancient world in Winthrop. Awfully public for a changing room, don’t you think, Clark? Another part of a simpler technological life is going away in two large swaths of Iowa. According to … Continue reading
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Mar
29
Happy 100th birthday, Iowa state flag!
July 21, 2012: The Iowa flag flies at West Lyon Community School, between Larchwood and Inwood, the northwesternmost school district in the state. The Iowa Legislature made the Iowa state flag official on March 29, 1921, according to this story … Continue reading
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Mar
24
Women’s work in the Iowa Highway Commission (2)
Excerpted from “Main roads designed as 24-foot pavement,” by Ellen Landon, Ames Daily Tribune, June 9, 1953, with some cleanup: The bridge design division makes preliminary layouts and final detail design and drawing and bridges or large culverts on a … Continue reading
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Mar
22
Women’s work in the Iowa Highway Commission (1)
This clip of a blueprint for a project on IA 24 in New Hampton in 1964 is emblematic of the style used in Iowa Highway Commission documents from the mid-1920s to 1970s. Pre-1925 documents have more embellishment of some labels. … Continue reading
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Mar
17
When the calendar stopped
On Sunday, March 8, 2020, in the final game of the regular season, the Iowa State women spoiled Baylor’s perfect conference record in front of 10,000 people at Hilton Coliseum. It would be the last collegiate sporting event in Iowa for … Continue reading
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Mar
12
Catchup on stateline pages
July 24, 2019: I-80 meets I-29 right as it comes into Iowa. Technically, this gantry is on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River. Ahead is the current highway welcome sign. Some members of the Iowa Legislature see a need … Continue reading
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Feb
26
Mid-Iowa Council’s first female Eagle Scouts
Girls in Ankeny and Ottumwa are the first two in central Iowa to become Eagle Scouts after changes to Scouting opened the doors to them. Stories: Des Moines Register, KYOU (with video). They are among the first 1,000 girls nationwide … Continue reading
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Feb
22
Today is March 359, 2020
Large Group All-State Speech honors were given out to Iowa high school students last week. (See, for example, here and here and here and here.) Each locally-focused story, though, contains one sad detail: There will be no All-State performance day. Again. … Continue reading
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