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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Nursery Fixture...is unusual in that a large bisque cherub tops the ornate brass fixture with metal leaves, the shades are made like petals in glass.

Helmet Design...butter dish reflects the warlike attire probably used in World War I.

The King Of Beasts...guards the butter container in clear glass and is representative of intricate designs used during the era of commemorative glassware.

Contrasting...clear and frosted glass are used for these covers for dishes. The left one is a compote with a frosted glass dog serving as a handle. The butter dish at the right sports a crouching lion.

Dodge House exterior, looking to the northeast from 3rd Street. Date penciled on back: 5-72

Dodge House, looking southeast from 3rd Street
Note on back says 8/73

The end of the 'haunted house' was the result of well-chosen undercuts by bulldozer operators for the J.C. White Werching [sic] Co., that tumbled the big old "squire House at 600 Third Street Wednesday morning. The "haunted house" got the name after…

Hanging light fixture in Dodge House; rectangular, stained-glass style fixture hanging from ornate plaster mount

Glassware, including covered dishes, plates, and a basket, on a shelf in a display case

Murders In C.B. & Southwest Iowa

Standing At His Sentencing . . . is Omahan John L. Hrbek, convicted of the Sept. 16 shootings of Stanley L. Fisher and his mother, Kate Fisher. Hrbek, 26, received the mandatory life sentences for the killings.

These Two Pistols . . . being examined by Police Capt. Bernard Land were taken from Charles Noel Brown and Charles Edwin Kelley.

Woman Companion . . . Josephine Patricia Nesbit sits in an interrogation room at the police station.

Secluded in the shaded knoll at the rear of the Mount Loretto novitiate, this grotto is a sanctuary of rustic beauty. It was dedicated Wednesday night at an elaborate May Day celebration. The grotto is constructed of 'honeycombed" tufa stone and is…

(top) Clouds of Dust . . . engulf bulldozer and operator as man and machine reduce Mount Loretto High School to rubble.

(bottom) Last Portion . . . of the 3-story building tumbles to the ground. A supermarket is planned for the site.

Checking A Diploma . . . at the Mount Loretto commencement exercises are Janice Brummer, Mary Eatherton, Janet Dickerson and Vicki Hough.

(top) Janice Brummer, Mary Eatherton, Janet Dickerson and Vicki Hough were members of the last graduating class at Mount Loretto High School in Council Bluffs in 1965. Former students at the all-girl Catholic high school are attempting to locate…
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