John Hands moves to a location on Iowa Avenue, two stores away from where Iowa Book & Supply is today and where the post office was once located.
First-known John Hands Jewelry store location at 22 S Clinton Street where the Airliner is today.
John Hands arrives in Iowa City.
John Hands is part of an ethics committee of the United States jewelers’ guild meeting in Chicago, according to the New York Times, on January 22, 1887.
Harold “Babe” Hands, first child of the John Hands’ family born in the U.S., is born on July 4. Babe is the sixth generation to work in the jewelry business.
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