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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

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Interstate 29 Roundup...turns highway patrolmen into cowboys as 69 cattle are herded down the super-road.

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Piles Of Rubble . . . remain after a Christmas Eve explosion leveled the First Federal Savings and Loan building at 32nd Street and Broadway. Two men died in the explosion and several people were injured.

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Hasty Evacuation . . . is made by Earl R. Andersen, 207 West Washington Avenue, as he carries belongings from the apartment of his mother, Mrs. Carl O. Anderson, 98 Fourth Street. Scores of apartment dwellers fled the flames.

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The Union Pacific's...8444 steam locomotive will be on display at the Golden Spike Monument in Council Bluffs Sept. 27 and 28 as part of the River City Roundup festivities. Crew members will be at the monument from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 allowing…

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Putting New Skin...on the old Chicago, Burlington and Quincy locomotive 915 are Paul Long, 1234 Westside Drige [sic], and Lowell Stuvick, 715 Fifteenth Ave. The men, employees of Nelson Heating and Air Conditioning, are replacing rusted sections of…

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Checking For Damages...from vandalism and severe winters. John Batt assesses what needs to be done to the old locomotive in the train exhibit at Dodge Park, Batt, superintendent of parks, said $2,000 donated by Burlington Norther Railroad will be…

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New equipment...is inspected by bus company officials James Kiger and his son, Ronald. Seven buses will replace old units.

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Toll May Still Be Collected . . . at the Mormon Bridge once a new interstate structure is constructed by the states of Iowa and Nebraska within the next three years. Iowa legislators don't relish the idea.

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Most Of The Exposed Deck...of the old steamboat being unearthed at De Soto Bend is covered with plastic. Part of the boat's engineworks are in foreground. Hole is where cargo is being sought.

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Newsmen loot at theo pen bow section of the sunken riverboat believed to the Bertrand which went down in 1865 after hitting a snag near what is now De Soto Bend wildlife refuge. Four cylinders of mercury, believed part of a 20-ton shipment, were…

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Checking Map . . . of Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation land is Ted Poteet, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce. Sale of the industrial land is moving rapidly.

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Testing the Maxon Shu-Pak refuse loader Friday at the City Garage are Jack Bowen, Public Works mechanic and Bob Martin, city sanitation director. The city is using the $33,000 machine on a week's trial basis. It is operated from the right side by the…

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(top to bottom):
'Out for a good time'
'This weather . . . not fit for a dog'
Jack Kennedy
'Yankee Doodle Dandy'
'Fountain of youth'
'The jumper'

Baptist Church
Trinity
22nd St. & Ave B
Formerly Second Baptist

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This Brick Structure...will always be known by a number of families as Trinity Baptist Church's educational Unit. However, the church's senior members have disbanded, and the denomination has sold the facility to a Council Bluffs couple who plan to…

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Education Unit...at Trinity Baptist Church, facing Twenty-second St. and Avenue B, is now half completed.

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Trinity Baptist Church...which was moved to this corner of 22nd Street and Avenue B a few years after 1890, is to be torn down and replaced as off-street parking for its worshippers.

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The Rev. Francis Hitch...places book on altar in Fellowship Hall. Junior workshop services will be conducted in this area each Sunday.
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