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Dodge Memorial, Ruth Anne

Dodge Memorial
"Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial"
official/original title "The Vision of the Water of Life"
7/17/86 note:
Has been called "The Black Angel," but this term is in disrepute among some members of the community who feel it conveys a negative…

Tags: Black Angel, fountains, Memorials, Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial, statues

915th Transportation Company

Tags: 189th Transportation Company, 915th Transportation Company, Council Bluffs, Fort McCoy WI, Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, Persian Gulf War, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Army Reserves

Nishna Heritage Museum

Tags: Bill Crisswell, Henry Clay, Iowa State Historical Society, Nishna Heritage Museum, Oakland IA, Pottawattamie County

Dohany Theater

Dohany (or Dohaney) Theater or Opera House
formerly Bryant St. between Broadway & Vine
See also: C.B. Changing Scenes

Tags: Dohany Opera House, Dohany Theaters, theaters

Nishna Valley High School & Community School

Tags: Emerson IA, Hastings IA, Mills County IA, Nishna Valley Community School District, Nishna Valley High School

Nishnabotna Flood 1958

Tags: Atlantic IA, Audubon County IA, Audubon IA, Cass County IA, East Nishna Valley, Exira IA, Fremont County IA, Hamburg IA, Hamlin IA, Montgomery County IA, Mosquito Creek, Nishnabotna Flood, Nishnabotna River, Red Oak IA, Rock Island Railroad

Best Pictures 1962-1966

Airplane wreckage. Photo apparently not used in the Nonpareil, but associated with photo and article from November 6, 1968, "Bluffs Couple Die In Airplane Crash". Notation on back: "Plane Crash 11-6-65" Couple killed were Ross A. Walker and Alta…

Tags: airplane accidents, airplane crashes, airplanes, Alta M. Walker, Best Pictures 1962-1966, Ross A. Walker

Canning Hill Work To Start This Year; Four-Lane Divided Road

Black Line Traces...approximate relocation route of Highway 6 over Canning Hill. Present Highways 6 and 64 meet at the intersection of Pierce and Canning streets. At the right of the proposed route, from top to bottom are: Wilcox greenhouse,…

Tags: Aerial Photos, Best Pictures 1967-1970, Canning Hill, Colonial Plaza, Highway 6, Northcrest Manor Nursing Home, road construction, Wilcox Greenhouses

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Arrowhead Park

Arrowhead Bridge: This 110-foot steel span has been installed across the northeast end of the lake at Arrowhead Park near Neola. Park custodian Harry Schueman of Avoca, right, and Clarence Armstrong of Neola, measure for flooring. Two 30-foot pilings…

Tags: Arrowhead Park

Rev. Parker Dead At 87 - Pastor of Many SW Iowa Churches

Rev. Grant Parker

Tags: Epworth Methodist Church, Epworth United Methodist Church, Rev. H. Grant Parker

Ervin Building (Bennett Building)

The Ervin Building, formerly the Bennett Building, in Council Bluffs, Iowa

Tags: Bennett Building, Ervin Building

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It's Apple Harvest Time in S.W. Iowa

APPLE HARVEST--Autumn time is apple time in Southwestern Iowa. Carefully relieving the bending limbs of their golden fruit is [sic] Archie Stacey and Jack Suhr, both of Glenwood.

Tags: apple orchards, apples, Archie Stacey, Carter Orchard, Jack Suhr, orchards