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A Cloud Of Fog . . . rises from the ice jam which has sealed off the mouth of the Boyer River. The jam extends upstream well beyond this bridge, which is near the Leonard Crispin farm.

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Cheered By Prospects . . . for industrial expansion here are: Orris Dean, T. Joe Smith and Sam C. Prest. Council Bluffs was picked out of an area from Tacoma, Wash., to the Mississippi River.

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Big Bend Dam, last of the six main stem Missouri River dams authorized by the Pick-Sloan Plan will be dedicated Sept. 15, although final work on the dam will not be completed until next year. The $103 million dam, with its 538,000 kilowatt electric…

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Ready For Dedication . . . Sunday is the new Lewis School, which replaces a building destroyed by fire.

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Only Remaining Evidence...of former stage coach station at Bartlett is this pile of rocks from the fireplace.

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Last Piling For City Hall...had just been driven when this photo was taken 30years ago. From left in rear are Gordon O'Neill; George Belshaw; unidentified man; Marion O. Hodge; J. Richard Bogue; Richard Barber. Front row: George Hall; Onel Cain;…

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Water Fills Basement . . . in the Hotel Chieftain and the presence of electrical wires near the water may cause another delay in the building's remodeling.

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Photograph of Lathrop Novelty, 542 West Broadway - Council Bluffs, Iowa.

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Looking Over A Map . . . of the city are Gene Thorne, Gerald Gray, Paul Palmer and Don Hullinger, missionaries for the Latter Day Saints Church.

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Riverside Congregation . . . of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has completed the exterior of its church. Only landscaping and parking areas are left to be done. The church is located at Twenty-sixth Street and Avenue G.

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This Sketch . . . reveals the plan for a new Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Council Bluffs. Cannon and Mullen of Salt Lake City, Utah are the architects.

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"Ask in my name"...reads the verse from Scripture on a prayer cloth worn by little Leland Blankenship.

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"Ask In My Name"...reads the verse from scripture on a prayer cloth worn by little Leland Blankenship.

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Greg Barentsen[sic]

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Bishop Edward C. Daly...wields trowel at St. Albert's cornerstone laying. With the bishop are Dr. J.P. Cogley, general chairman of the fund drive, the Very Rev. Albert Davidsaver of Missouri Valley, acting superintendent during the school's…

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Council Bluffs' Jewish Community Center . . . purchased from the Red Cross for $15,000.

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Adjusting The Thermostat . . . in the chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is Lewis Wylie, the church's custodian, while Mrs. Ann Lutz, watches the procedure. Mrs. Lutz is meeting house librarian for the church.
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