Word: adel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
...Adel, Iowa, Mrs. Samantha Burns died in the Dallas County Home where she had peeled a bushel and a half of potatoes daily for 35 years, equivalent to 32 car-load...