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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Hancock Mayor Russell Griggs . . . wants more equitable taxation for financing volunteer fire departments.

Champagne...aboard the Bertrand by now is a bit overaged. James Salyer, manager of the De Soto Bend Wildlife Refuge, studies one of the bottles still containing the liquid. He stands in the storeroom with the many items yet to be processed in the…

Hobnail Boots...like these would have been available in many frontier general stores is the shipment on the Bertrand had been delivered

Doctors Building (201 Building) looking northeast from the parking lot
[Notes on back:
(not used)
4-30-72
doctor's Building progress]

The new doctors facility at Mercy Hospital, named the 801 Building, will soon be in full. use. Front entrance is off a large parking lot at 801 Harmony Street where the front gives a one-story profile. Actually, the building is three floors with…

Doctors Building (J.E.)
(at Jennie Edmundson Hospital)
Ridge Street
[Note: one photo depicts the 801 Building/ Doctors Building at Mercy/CHI Hospital]

Admiring New Furnishings . . . in a room at Jennie Edmundson Hospital are Miss Dorothy Christensen, and Drs. M.P. Margules, Fred Beaumont and Donald Stroy.

The Exterior Of Doctors Building...features a modernistic upsweep design of rich brown brick and silver bronze strip windows. They are of spandrel glass which reflects the heat. The windows pivot to an inside opening for easy cleaning. This portion…

photo of the Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial (the Black Angel) in Fairview Cemetery, view from the angel's right.

Front view of Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial (The Black Angel) in Fairview Cemetery. Photo shows entire width of memorial, including the fountain pool. On reverse of photo:
327-61 Council Bluffs, Iowa Dodge Memorial
May 15, 1927 [1974?]
Dodge…

General Grenville Dodge, standing, in his Civil War uniform.

on reverse of photo:
"Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, left,
photo taken in 1913 with
a Mr. L. Jester, agent,
Capitol Grounds Extension,
Believed taken in Des Moines
--hm--

photo of General Grenville M. Dodge house, viewed from slightly north on 3rd Street. Sign in front of the house:
Gen. Dodge House
Now Being Restored As A National
Historical Landmark

photo portrait of Grenville M. Dodge in his later years
On revers of photo:
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge at age 70.
--hm--

Official Hostesses . . . for the holiday tour and tea will be members of the Council Bluffs Business and Professional Women's Club. Mrs. Dorothy Letner (left), Mrs. Grace Getzer and Miss Evelyn Blyth select costumes of the Victorian age which they…

The General's Suite . . . at the Historic Gen. Dodge House, just opened to the public, is viewed by Mrs. John A Whittaker, Mrs. Andrew Fluetch and Mrs. Clifford Lee.

A Victorian Mansion . . . will again provide the background for an old-fashioned lawn party today when the Park Board and the board of trustees of the Historic Gen. Dodge House serve ice cream, cake, and pink lemonade. The four young ladies, in…

Color photograph of Historic Gen. Grenville M. Dodge House

Photo of Historic Gen. Grenville M. Dodge House from park across the street, with many people in attendance at an Independence Day celebration.

Photo of a gentleman working on the restoration of the Historic Gen. Grenville Dodge House.
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