Winter
2005 (Vol. 86, No. 4)
Table of Contents
 FEATURE
ARTICLES:
Walter Enoch Heston:
Lucas County Farm Boy and World-Renowned Cancer Researcher
An Iowa scientist devotes 37 years to tackling cancer.
by Mark Smith
Pardon Me, Governor:
Ernest Rathbun, William Harding, and the Politics of Justice
“The real question which all Iowa wants solved,” the Register
harangued, “is left untouched.”
by Tom Morain
An Iowa Christmas
Sampler
How Uzz Tharp, Heck Sanders, and other Iowans celebrated the holiday in the late
19th century.
The Culture of
Christmas
Glowing candles, sparkling trees, and the Society for the Prevention of Useless
Giving—ah! Christmas in the United States. by Ginalie Swaim
Yearly Index
DEPARTMENTS:
Front Porch:
Letters from readers and thoughts on tradition.
One in a Million:
What was the price of a man’s wool suit in 1916? And how did clothiers woo
their customers?
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