When Helena Augusta Dethlefs was born on 20 February 1896, in Carroll, Iowa, United States, her father, George Henry August Dethlefs, was 37 and her mother, Margaretha "Margaret" Peper, was 33. She married George Dewey Voss on 8 June 1921, in Manning, Carroll, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Warren Township, Carroll, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Manning, Carroll, Iowa, United States in 1935. She died on 28 August 1996, in Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in North Lawn Cemetery, Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
"Fort Dodge is locally referred to as ""Little Chicago"" because architects modeled downtown buildings to resemble Chicago in the mid 1900s."
The Karlowa Radio Corporation, in Davenport, was issued a new license for broadcasting and with it they were randomly assigned call letters of WOC. The small studio was the first to reach the Iowa area and was identified as one of 21 stations that were desirable because of coverage area and performance. In September 1927, WOC became a member of the new NBC radio network and still is today. In 1932, Ronald Reagan got his first broadcasting job at WOC as a sportscaster and he returned in 1988 after his presidency tour. WOC is the oldest surviving broadcasting station in the middle Mississippi Valley and was the first to keep logs on their electrical consumption and their on-air programming.
North German and North Frisian: patronymic from the personal name Detlef, composed of Middle Low German theod ‘people, race’ + lēf ‘life, offshoot’.
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