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Title: Receipt for Ford Touring Car
Description: Receipt dated March 16, 1910, from the Grinnell Garage Company, Grinnell, Iowa, to Mr. George Brown for a Ford Touring car costing $950. Brown is possibly George Brown (1837-1934) who is buried in Westfield Cemetery in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The proprietors of Grinnell Garage Company were E.H. Spaulding and A.C. Dickerson.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6412

Title: Receipt from Bees & Korns
Description: Receipt for threshing: Wallace Breniman paid $47.50 to Bees and Korns for threshing 1190 pounds of oats at $0.04 per pound. Receipt signed by F. C. Bees.
Date Created: 1949
PID: grinnell:27250

Title: Receipt from Scott, Reed and Scott
Description: Receipt from Scott, Reed, & Scott, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, to Mrs. Luetta Decker dated January 3, 1895 for $129.23 paid against the account of M.F. Gray, deceased.
Date Created: 1895
PID: grinnell:6200

Title: Record of Attendance, Welch System of Close Supervision
Description: School attendance records and grades for pupils at Washington #4 school in Poweshiek County, Iowa, for the years 1915 through 1920. The attendance book is a preprinted book titled The Welch System of Close Supervision, by W.M. Welch and published by W.M. Welch Mfg. Co., Chicago, in 1915. The first 6 pages of the book are examples of how it is to be used. Other information contained in the book includes textbooks used, class schedule, condition of the school and grounds, teacher's salary, and a list of visitors. Alice Slaven was the teacher from November 1915 through March 1917 and from April 1918 through June 1918. Rilla Cooper was teacher from September 1917 through February 1918. Margaret Leonard was teacher from November 1918 through March 1919. Agnes Stoner was teacher from May 1920 through June 1920, and Anna Lou Leonard was teacher from September through October 1920.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:17793

Title: Report of Monthly Examination
Description: Monthly examination report for April 1918 filed by Alice Slaven, teacher at Washington #4 school in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Scores were reported for students Ralph Russell, Louise Keenan, and William Keenan. This report was laid in the "Record of Attendance" book for the school for the years 1915-1920.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:18023

Title: Spaulding Miscellany
Description: Collection of poems, prayers and news clippings collected by Henry W. Spaulding for his daughters, Alice and Henryetta. Handwritten note at top of page says, "For Alice and Henryetta, some day, if they are interested in what [indecipherable] tried to do."
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:5803

Title: Teacher's Report to Parents, Poweshiek County, 1941/42
Description: Eighth grade report card for Pearl Stepp for the school year 1941/42, in Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1941
PID: grinnell:12467

Title: Telegram to Bernice Stemsrud
Description: Western Union telegram from the War Department to Bernice Stemsrud of Grinnell, Iowa, informing her of her appointment to a civil service position in Washington, D.C., in 1941.
Date Created: 1941
PID: grinnell:20644

Title: Demise of the Spencer Family of Grinnell, Spencer Family of Grinnell
Description: A collection of primarily newspaper clippings from throughout the United States concerning the Grinnell, Iowa, First National Bank Scandal of 1904 and the deaths of Charles H. Spencer, Henry C. Spencer. and Clarke H. Spencer.
Date Created: 1904
PID: grinnell:27178