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In Former Days . . . the main reception room entertained many of the most prominent figures of the nineteenth century - U.S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley - to name a few.

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Reception Room Today . . . shows little resemblance to the past. Only one piece of the original furniture remains, the long, low buffet with its immense mirror that covered nearly half a wall.

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This Famous Home . . . at 605 Third St. still looks much the same on the outside as it did when Gen. Grenville M. Dodge moved in 89 years ago. Now it is an apartment house.

CBHS_1906_V8_Annual.pdf
1906 Yearbook (Annual) of the Council Bluffs High School.

CBHS_1898_Vol2_Annual.pdf
1898 Yearbook (Annual) of the Council Bluffs High School.

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Dee Jepsen . . . wife of U.S. Sen. Roger Jepsen, R-Iowa, signs a copy of her new book for John Hartog of Carter Lake at the Living Word Wednesday afternoon.

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Bourke B. Hickenlooper . . . former Republican senator from Iowa who had spent 24 years in the Senate, died Saturday in New York.

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George Steinberg has announced sale of Steinberg grocery at 1428 West Broadway to the state to make way for the Broadway viaduct. Sale pdice[sic] was $24,500, the figure set by the viaduct appraisal board;.

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En Route To Court . . . is Mrs. Marian E. Keller, accompanied by Sheriff Roy O. Wichael.

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Aerial photograph of Seldins Addition - Bennett at Highway 6

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Independent Insurance Agents Wednesday presented a defibrillator unit to the Council Bluffs Emergency Care Division, in memory of the late Ben Seldin, a longtime agent. Larry Hazelwood and Wayne McCunn, paramedics, examine the equipment with Ted…

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Talking Politics . . . are Harold Beckman, Pottawattamie County Republican chairman, and Rep. Ben F. Jensen.

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Sketch Of Plans . . . for the Golden Spike monument. The drawing at left shows how the Junior Chamber of Commerce will beautify the grounds. The sketch at right is a perspective of the monument.

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Making Transparencies . . . for overhead projectors is discussed by Richard Fetrow, director of the Iowa School for the Deaf media center, and student Robert Sly, a senior from Des Moines. Students from art classes help out at the center, which is in…

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This section of East Omaha, just east of the Pottawattamie county line, looked like a scene from Venice as the Nonpareil's aerial photographer swept over it Saturday afternoon.

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2nd E.U. 1951 G.M.C.

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The Second Baptist Church, Avenue B and Twenty-second street, began as a mission in 1889...
[Photo retouched]

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Photograph of the exterior of the Second Avenue School.

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Big Sign Tells Motorists...where to turn from eastbound Broadway to reach Second Avenue via new connection near Thirty-sixth Street. Nonpareil photo by Jack Kennedy.

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Photograph of the exterior of Second Ave School.
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