Tag Archives: Jokes

1923 Northwest Missouri May Day Fete

Posted on May 1, 2026 by roger

In the early 1900s, Northwest Missouri staged May Day celebrations each year. This AI animation of dance in 1923 (published in the 1924 Tower Yearbook). Below is a story about the 1923 event. Costumes in this presentation were designed by … Continue reading →

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KENREX Album Available on Amazon

Posted on April 29, 2026 by roger

Music by John Patrick Elliott from the London Production of KENREX about Ken Rex McElory is available on Amazon Music (you can also listen to it online)

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Proposed $4 Billion White Cloud Acres AI Data Center in Rural Barnard

Posted on April 29, 2026 by roger

A proposal by Scale Microgrids to open the White Cloud Acres $4 billion AI data center that is expected to use 600 megawatts of electricity from what sounds to be another natural gas generating station, and would be across Highway … Continue reading →

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Fraternities Throw 1971 Tower Yearbooks into the Fine Arts Building Fountain After Book Snubs Frats and Does Spread on Hole in the Wall Bar

Posted on April 27, 2026 by roger

In 1971, Northwest fraternity members threw Tower Yearbooks in the fountain at the Fine Arts Building after the yearbook for the first time in college history snubbed any special section about fraternities and instead posted a double-page spread about Palms … Continue reading →

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Allison Fisher Flies Planes Solo and Owns a Cessna in High School in Preparation for a Colorful Aviation Career

Posted on April 25, 2026 by roger

Allison Fisher and Gordon Miller, queen and king of the French Club Mardi Gras, AI colorized/enhanced from the 1970 Maryville, Missouri, High School Maryvillian Yearbook. Allison Fisher was flying solo in planes and co-owned a Cessna during her junior year … Continue reading →

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Maurice Chick’s 1953 Escapade That Landed the Original Spoofhound in the Nodaway Valley Bank Vault

Posted on April 24, 2026 by roger

Here’s an amazing 1953 story about Morris Chick, one of the players scolded by L.E. Zieger in 1921 as “a bunch of Spoofhounds,” who wound up with one of the plaster casts of a Spoofhound that was sold during the … Continue reading →

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Nat Towles and His Orchestra Arrive in Style Direct from Chicago Savoy Ballroom to Club 71 in Pumpkin Center

Posted on April 22, 2026 by roger

Club 71, from a DX gas station in Pumpkin Center, had to be one of the most exciting and eclectic music roadhouses anywhere. It could be hosting square dances and fox hunt dances, and, seemingly most out of place, the … Continue reading →

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71 Club – Pumpkin Center (1938-1941)

Posted on April 22, 2026 by roger

The backstory of the 71 Club in Pumpkin Center is probably the most interesting of many interesting stories about nightclubs in Nodaway County. The Club ran from 1938 to 1941 and was in a DX Filling Station. The club offered … Continue reading →

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Containered H2O

Posted on April 21, 2026 by roger

I have never heard bottled water called “Containered H2O,” but this map says the phrase is an Upper Midwest term, including Atchison County north to South Dakota and the Kansas City metro.