Boots and Her Buddies was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title Boots. The character of Boots was variously labeled the "Sweetheart of the Comics", the "Sweetheart of America" and "Everybody's Sweetheart".
Edgar Martin's Boots and Her Buddies (June 8, 1930). From 1926 to 1931, the Sunday strip appeared in this abbreviated form as a topper strip, positioned directly above Gene Ahern's Our Boarding House.
Boots and Her Buddies #6 (1948)
Edgar Martin's Boots and Her Buddies (January 7, 1939)
Edgar Martin's Boots and Her Buddies (March 21, 1926)
Monmouth College is a private Presbyterian liberal arts college in Monmouth, Illinois. It enrolls approximately 767 students who choose courses from 40 major programs, 43 minors, and 17 pre-professional programs in a core curriculum. It offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.
Construction of Wallace Hall, 1908. Its entrance is modeled after the east portico of the ancient Erechtheion of the Athenian Acropolis. The building houses historic classrooms that played a part in educating all living alumni.
Incoming new students can participate in research projects with their professors and returning upper classmen during the summer prior to their enrollment.
Housing about a half million items, the Hewes Library also contains ancient antiquities and thousands of Native American artifacts.
Procured by the senior class of 1903 as its graduation gift to the institution, this Civil War-era cannon spent 50 years at the bottom of a creek after having been stolen by the rival junior class.
