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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
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
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
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
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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Containered H2O
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.
Scenes and Background from KENREX NYC Production
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Daisy & Queen College Farm Mules Who Built Martindale Gymnasium 1926
The original 200-acre college farm (on the northwest side of the campus, mostly south of the Wabash tracks in the high-rise dormitory area). This farm was part of the original massive Faustiana Farm, which stretched around the college on the … Continue reading
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Northwest’s New Computer Library Terminals 1984
AI colorized St. Joseph News-Press March 11, 1984 photo of the computer library terminals at the newly opened B.D. Owens Library replaced the old card catalogs of Wells Library when Owens opened in 1983. Northwest embraced computers blindingly fast. Northwest … Continue reading
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Nodaway County Courthouse with Telephone Booths on Corner 1980s
In the early 1980s, the St. Joseph News-Press ran this great black-and-white photo in an advertising supplement about Maryville. The photo before the Nodaway Historical marker was placed in front of the courthouse. I got a kick out of seeing … Continue reading
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