Monday, July 21, 2014

For Odebolt history buffs

As you may already know, Odebolt newspapers from 1877 to 2004, and other historic area publications are now on-line thanks to Odebolt's library and museum.  (Read the news article.)

The main entry is located at  http://odebolt.advantage-preservation.com  .. run searches, and sit back to have some fun reading about the past.

And, just to let you know ... there is a LOT of history contained in particular issues.

The August 25, 1938 edition of The Odebolt Chronicle, put out an extensive history supplement titled
"Fifty Years of Progress; Celebrating the Chronicles 50th Anniversary and the Iowa Territorial Centennial."   This issue begins at
http://odebolt.advantage-preservation.com/document/odebolt-chronicle-1938-08-25-page-13

The November 17, 1927 edition of the Odebolt News put out a supplement titled "Fiftieth Anniversary and Booster Edition, 1877-1927."  It is located at
http://odebolt.advantage-preservation.com/document/odebolt-news-1927-11-17-page-1 

Run searches in the year 1977 to find Odebolt Centennial articles. 
The Centennial issue starts here
http://odebolt.advantage-preservation.com/document/odebolt-chronicle-1977-06-23-page-1
A follow-up starts here
http://odebolt.advantage-preservation.com/document/odebolt-chronicle-1977-06-30-page-1
Odebolt Celebrates its 100th Anniversary starts here
http://odebolt.advantage-preservation.com/document/odebolt-chronicle-1977-06-30-page-55

Check out the June 13, 2002 Chronicle for Quasquicentennial news
http://odebolt.advantage-preservation.com/document/chronicle-2002-06-13-page-1

To navigate:  The page number and arrows to navigate forward or back is located on the upper right corner of each page.

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In addition, The Odebolt History Pages is full of history both transcribed and submitted by others. There are also many many historic photos.  The index to the 450+ pages of the Odebolt History Pages is located here
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohms/townhistory.html

And we don't want to forget the over 900 pages containing 4000+ obituaries from the Odebolt area located at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iaohms/museumobits/indexes/obits-index.htm
 
THANK YOU to all the people who have made it possible to view Odebolt history on the Internet!

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