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All Smiles...as they are taken to the Missouri Valley j ail after their capture are left to right, Donald Gene Brophy, Donald Wayne Eblen and his brother, Ernest Eugene.

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A few months ago, there was a high embankment at this location at Harmony and Frank streets. The older section of Mercy Northeast stood here. Today, with the building removed and thousands of yards of earth distributed to various parts of the city,…

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Planning Material . . . to be used in a therapy session are Denise Meyer and Kathy Jasper, therapists and counselors for the Mercy Chemical Dependency Family Program. The program has chosen a home atmosphere for its outpatient services and offices.

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Abandoned Child: This photo is from a picture taken by Council Bluffs police when the child was hours old.

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Mercy Hospital officials are negotiating with EnerGroup to take over operation of the hospital power plant as a cost-cutting measure.

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Warning Signs...tell motorists of approaching dangerous underpass.

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Railroad Underpass...has claimed at least two lives this year.

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The Dredge Meriwether Lewis . . . soon to leave the Omaha district, weighs 1,043 tons, is almost 269 feet long and can dredge to a depth of 20 feet. She has accommodations for 64 men although she never carried a crew that large.

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The Meriwether Lewis . . . A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge, will be towed from St. Louis, Mo., to Brownville, Neb., where it will become a museum of Missouri River history.

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(top) Methodist District Parsonage . . . at 120 Zenith Drive, occupied by District Supt. Dr. and Mrs. J. Henry Teele is ideally designed for its purpose.

(mid) Built-In Bookcases . . . in Dr. Teele's study wrap around a door leading to a…

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Showing off 30 new buses is no problem. Just line them up and drive them. The long procession they created was enough to make anyone stop and look. Metro Area Transit (MAT) did just that Saturday, along Highway 6, Broadway and then Dodge Street in…

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Lake Manawa was one of many stops made by trolley cars years ago. Henry Hamann of Omaha, a trolley car buff, arranges a host of items Thursday which he donated to Metro Area Transit. The material becomes the nucleus of the Transportation Museum at…

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Four Bus Shelters . . . similar to this artist's drawing would be placed in the central business district as part of city's Integrated Street Furniture Program.

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Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, Jesuit priest, who established the upper Missouri river valley's first church in a blockhouse on the present site of Council Bluffs.

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This Iowa boulder, bearing a bronze tablet, marks the spot near Broadway and Union street where Father De Smet established his first mission in the upper Missouri river valley.

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Des Moines
Iowa City Capitol
Includes Terrace Hill
{Note on back of photo: "General Grenville M. Dodge of CB, astride a horse on the Soldier's and Sailors' Monument, state capitol grounds, Des Moines. Dodge is on the LEFT in this photo. He is…
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