Author of American History
On July 24, 1945, Charles Toney and his then girlfriend, Ann Palmer, walked to the elegantly appointed Capitol Theatre, a 2,500-seat art deco style movie theater on West 3rd Street in downtown Davenport, Iowa. The movie was The Valley of Decision, based on the book …
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Automobiles, engines, and tractors. The Illinois Quad Cities was an early 20th century tech hub, racing to put the internal combustion engine on roads and farms.
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For decades, William Butterworth, John Deere’s third president, has been the scapegoat, the person to blame for Deere’s “late” entrance into the tractor business. I think it’s time to let him off the hook. Deere’s tractor development program began in 1912. The industry at that …
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