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Tourists walking on a bridge under a fortress.
The Tower of London is among the foggy city's best-known landmarks, and The Nonpareil's European Holidayers were there. They're walking above the north bank of the River Thames and through the middle tower of London's 12-acre fortress.

A boat on a river with a cathedral in the background.
A French Pleasure Boat . . . heads down River Seine with members of the European holiday tour aboard. In the background is the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

Veteran's Hospital . . . is often called the most impressive building in the city. The 486-bed hospital is located at Forty-second and Center Streets.

Honoring The War Dead . . . is the World War II Memorial west of Underwood and Happy Hollow Blvd. The names of Omaha war dead are inscribed in plaques set in the pillars. Erected on what was an unkempt empty tract, the Memorial is now in the center…

First Stop On Omaha Tour . . . is the Joslyn Art Museum at Twenty-second and Dodge Streets. The museum is valued at more than $4,000,000.

Open suitcase surrounded by women's clothing.
(top) One Suitcase . . . will contain all of the clothing shown in this picture, plus stockings, handkerchiefs and lingerie. The SAS flight bag is for personal items that travelers might want to keep with them on the plane.

(bottom) There's Room…

The fountain in Bayliss park gets a new coat of paint from city park employee Robert Hemmingsen. Plans to replace the landmark with a modern centerpiece have been set aside for this season. [accessed from NewsBank search of Council Bluffs Daily…

Mayor Carl VanFossen...stands along Highway 71, where a tornado spent most of its destructive force in the town in Braddyville last March. Few buildings have been rebuilt along main street.

Postcard of residence section after tornado.

Four photographs showing damage after a tornado.

Reproduction of a photograph of tornado damage on Tostevin Avenue, Sept. 28, 1923.

Photograph showing damage in Omaha after the 1913 tornado.

12 photographs showing damage from the March 1913 tornado. Also includes 2 photographs of Lake Manawa.

photographs showing tornado and storm damage, Sept. 28, 1923

Two men in overalls shoveling  ears of corn into a grinder
Grinding Corn...is just one of the duties which keep Bob Williams, right, and his hired man, Orville Headlee, busy on the big Williams farm.

A woman holding a cup and saucer and an electric coffee pot stands at a stove with three young boys and a cat
Family Gathering...in the Williams kitchen includes the three boys, left to right, Ronnie, 6; Randall, 9, and Roger, 11, with their cat, "Toby Tyler." and their mother.

School Superintendent Raj Chopra and his wife Sue show off a plaque and painting presented to Chopra at Iowa Western Community College Friday. Chopra was named Educator of the Year earlier by the Chamber of Commerce. He was presented the award at a…

Checking Arthroscope . . . readying it for diagnostic purposes are Mrs. Minnie Thornton, operating room supervisor, and Mrs. Linda Bryson, operating room technician at Jennie Edmundson Hospital.

Too much love...from his brother sent Eugene Adkins of Little Sioux, front, to Mercy Hospital with a fractured leg. He joined Brian Jacobsen of 39 Happy Happy Hollow Blvd., who slipped on a rug and fractured his leg.
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