These Eugene Field Children Have Doubles. The eight sets of twins enrolled at the Eugene Field School are, from left to right, standing: Greg and Allen Wilson; Earl and Edward Soetaert; Truday and Judy Shrauner; Judy and Jeanette Wermelskirchen; Donnie and Ronnie Marsh; seated: Harriet and Margaret Ayers; Judy and Jody Fine; and Shirley and Stanley Mounts.
Above image is AI enhanced Source Image: Maryville Forum May 11, 1959
The Northwest Missouri College, Albany, was organized in 1892 and was associated with the Methodist Church. The building burned as it neared completion in 1893. The advertisement below shows it formally opening in 1904, but news reports indicate it was already open before then. The above picture is based on a postcard from eBay and is AI colorized/enhanced. The advertisement below, from the Albany Capital, September 22, 1904, is AI-enhanced.
AI colorized/enhanced Forum photo of 1956 Mrs. Ruth Hooper, 3rd grade, Eugene Field Elementary School “class flight.” The AI may have some misspelled names on the cardboard controls (which were too dark on the original May 12, 1956 issue of the Forum) Caption says: THESE THIRD- GRADERS ARE “ALOFT** in their home-made airliner constructed of cardboard, and furnished with earphones and “instruments” and “steering columns” provided by the pupils in Mrs. Ruth Hooper’s third grade at Eugene Field. This picture shows Larry Moore as the pilot on the right side of the liner and Billy Baker as the pilot on the left side; passengers are, Angela Swanson and John Price, and the “stewardess” standing in her compartment is Ann Volker. Michael White and Mrs. Hooper are looking on. Facebook Discussion. Below is the source image:
Above is an AI color/enhanced postcard labeled “Largest Cement Road Bridge in Northwest Missouri, near Sheridan.” I am not familiar with where the bridge is. Below is the original image. Facebook discussion
AI Enhanced Maryville Forum Hi-Lights photo of the new Drivers Education equipment at the Washington High School, published April 16, 1949 An excerpt of the article (edited) is below, including identifying the people involved
In August 1921, Nodaway County had a Lafayette High School near Guilford. It was billed as the only rural school district in Missouri to do this without state (most one-room schools sent their students to towns for high school). The school forced the media to refer to the school near Guilford as “Lafayette Rural High School,” while the bigger one in St. Joseph, Missouri, always had to have the St. Joseph name attached to it. The school was too small to offer basketball or football teams, but it did have a little track.
A fire that occurred on January 30, 1918, destroyed most of the buildings west of the square. Outside temperatures were reported at -20F, and it iced over. It was the second of three major Townsend fires (the others being in 1892 and 1960). More than 100 people moved bags of Townsend goods across Fourth to the Farmers Trust building (later Citizens and today Bank Midwest) in preparation for Townsend’s reopening on the north side of the square in a former grocer space. Towsends was in the Michau Building on the corner, which later became Place’s. Some items from Nodaway Valley Bank were moved to the First National Bank
On September 26, 1917, more than 8,000 meals were served on the grounds of the Nodaway County Courthouse, honoring county men who had been drafted in August for World War I training at Camp Funston (now Fort Riley) in Kansas. The crowd in town was estimated at 15,000. The men then went to the Burlington Station, where the Burlington had dispatched 2 cars to take them. 220 Nodaway men had been drafted and passed their physicals in the August draft and were not exempted from service. The draftees went in waves through October for training, and each wave had its festivities, but none were as grand as the Sept. 26 event.
My aunt, who would have been 5 at the time, talked about how she got caught up in the excitement and ran down the track, throwing flowers. She said she never realized what she was cheering for and contrasted it to a more somber visit when they drove to St. Joseph during World War II just to see my dad pass through on a train.
Most histories say that the Spanish Flu, which killed more people than the War (as many as 100 million in the flu vs. 23 million in the war) started its worldwide spread at Camp Funston.
The AI colorized/enhanced image is from the Nodaway Countians in History photos at the Maryville Daily Forum Aug 18, 1973. The caption refers to Nov. 1, 1917 but it was September.
