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Ballenger [in ROTC cadet uniform, receiving Distinguished Milirary Student Award]

Implement dealers . . . like this one in Harlan, are well-stocked with merchandise this time of year, but sales are dragging somewhat. Farmers in Southwest Iowa, like those everywhere, are finding money together to get -- even at today's usurious…

Restoration of the 100-year-old main staircase in the Kiel Hotel is almost complete. Jere Robinson and Don Blankenship, employees of Life Style Inc., make some last-minute measurements Thursday on the refinished bannister leading to the second floor.…

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Comment From Des Moines...on the financial troubles of local and other Catholic schools were made by the Rev. James Holden, Bishop Maurie Dingman and Sister Elizabeth Clare, elementary consultant for the diocese.
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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 cotton…

Photograph of cars and trucks outside of the Independent Hog Buyers barns in Council Bluffs (Iowa).

Index of marriages recorded in Council Bluffs from November 1902 through 1940, and to marriages recorded at the Avoca courthouse from 1885 to 1921. Index created by the Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society which houses the original records.…

Photograph of Indian Creek east of North 3rd.

Photograph of Indian Creek Channel Construction, Ground Breaking, March 2, 1936. George Steinberg (with shovel) and Sam Green (identified by X).

Indian Creek Construction, Ground breaking, March 2, 1936. George Steinberg (with shovel) and Sam Green (identified by X)

Indian Creek postcard

Indian Creek Watershed . . . will possibly get 11 more dams under a plan now being completed by the Soil Conservation Service. Dark triangles numbered 4, 5, 13, and 6, have already been constructed. Largest dam in the system will be No. 2 about two…

Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

"I Believe In Iowa With All My Heart" . . . Loren Hickerson of Iowa City (center) tells William O'Neil, Carl Stephens, Dave Dobell and Chamber President W.D. Cairney. "The key question is: How much do we believe in Iowa."

New Director . . . for the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation is Larry Potter (right). He was elected to a position vacated by Jack Luhring who was transferred to Des Moines. Jim Richter took over Luhring's position as vice president. H.H. "Red"…

South Of Town . . . the Industrial Foundation's tract is bounded by Eleventh Street on the left; Twenty-ninth Avenue (the city limits), top, and Highway 192, right.

Aerial photograph of an industrial site

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Inspecting A Sample . . . 0f "Nativ-Cast Stone," which soon will be manufactured here, are J.W. Van Unen, Joe M. Jamison, Howard Bessire and Duane Jamison.
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