Strawberry Point is known for being home to the world’s largest strawberry. But what many people don’t know is that it’s also home to the Franklin Hotel, a 150-year-old hotel and event venue that has the spirit of a 1920’s prostitute still wandering the halls. Sources Franklin Hotel, Strawberry Point. Haunted Iowa, hauntedrooms.com Rasdal, […]
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When I rolled into Strawberry Point, Iowa, last summer, I was looking for one thing: the world’s largest strawberry. To be clear, it’s not a real strawberry, as my daughter constantly points out to me. It’s a 15-foot-tall fiberglass replica of a strawberry, the brainchild of an ad agency in the 1960’s. It’s been a
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All Thaddeus Fancher wanted to do was have a drink. But when a group of robbers came into the bar, his night would end in death. Who had killed him, and what ties did they have to one of the most vicious killers in prohibition-era Chicago? Sources Two Seized on Girl’s Charge of
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All Thaddeus S. Fancher wanted to do was have a drink. Maybe the 36-year-old lawyer from Crown Point, Indiana just wanted to have a good time. Or maybe he had a long day and wanted to unwind with a drink or two. The problem was that it was 1924, and, technically speaking, just having
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