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Photograph of a Council Bluffs fire

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Showing the Lappish shoes . . . she brought from Finland is Paula Ylanne. Surrounding her are the Rev. Mr. Miars, Shelly, Mrs. Miars and Jeff. --Nonpareil Photo.

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Finished product . . . of big shredder is shown by Tom Hale, account executive at Alters. Old autos are reduced to clean metal more or less the size of baseballs, and read for steel mills and foundrys over the United States and abroad to be recycled…

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Relegated To A Dark Corner . . . is the old grand piano, all that's left of the Malvern Opera House. Roy Mansfield, whose furniture store now occupies the building, inspect the old instrument.

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Top To Bottom: Sail Apartments, a six-plex located at 3001 Second Ave; Place 35, low-income apartments located - as the plaque indicates - at 901 N. 35th St.; and a duplex located at 2934 and 2936 Seventh Ave.

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Bottles Of Stomach Bitters...distributed from Pittsburgh, Pa., are brought out of the riverboat by Harry Sorensen, owner of his construction firm, and one of his workmen.

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Lost Boot...was thigh-high and had a very large foot with studded sole.

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Rustless Hook---used by riverboat crews to move heavy freight appeared out of the hold of the ship. Kerrmit Dybsetter inspects the 16-pound, hand-forged find.

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Part of downtown Council Bluffs...financial center is the corner of West Broadway at Main and Fourth Streets where four banks or savings and loans are located.

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Please give up your rabbit: That's the plea of Jackee Wise as Myrtle Mae and her mother, Vita, played by Ida Neary, as Elwood, portrayed by Norman Filbert Jr., grimaces at the thought of giving up his six-foot-tall invisible friend. the scene is from…

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A tour of Eastside Junior High School grounds is made Saturday by Supt. Russel J. Mourer, Richard Peterson, Edward Larsen, contractor, Frank Griffith Sr., Richard K. Stoufer, School Board president, and Alex Weinstein, Architect. Peterson and…

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Louise Filbert, foreground, awaits her call to go before the cameras Tuesday morning. to her right is Jo Honaker, a registered nurse at Bergan Mercy and manager of the hospital's emergency room.

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Criticizing...Vice President Walter Mondale for his comments that presidential candidates should not chastise President Carter for his actions concerting Afghanistan is U.S. Sen. Howard Baker. He spoke Thursday to the Council Bluffs Rotary Club,…

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Two great-great=grandchildren of Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Laurel and Lincoln Ferris, and their grandmother, Mrs. Robert Langford Montgomery, were visitors at the Historic General Dodge House on Tuesday. This was the first opportunity for the children…
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