Living Family Archive

new house in the country

Stories set here

A Bicycle Rack and Two Country RoutesAfter moving from River Drive to a new country house at about eleven or twelve, Iris delivered the Moline Daily Dispatch to eighty homes after school. Her father repaired a second-hand boy’s bicycle and built a wooden newspaper rack for it. She also used the rack for Saturday bread deliveries, collecting bread from Peter’s bakery at an old farmhouse and taking customers’ orders for the next week. She loved the work and saw it as an early sign of her interest in business.

Events here

When Iris was eleven or twelve
Iris moves from River Drive to the country
Iris estimated her age at the move and recalled little of the first years there.

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