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The Best Mower . . . at Fairview Cemetery is none too good. Inspecting the cemetery equipment - five lawn mowers in various states of repair and an old pickup truck, are Parks and Recreation officials Jame DiGiovanni, Kathy Schlott and Jerry Eckrich.…

Collections are made at reguar [sic] intervals, and turned over to treasurer's office.

Damage to meters is Department's biggest headache; amounted to $300 last year.

Finishing Touches . . . are applied to a wall in the 300 block of West Broadway by Lee Merrill of Lincoln, Neb. Plastic flamingos, flowers and decorative blocks add to the improvement of the area.

Park Board Member J. Fred Schlott and Walter J. Metscke, Planning Engineer, discuss improvement plans for city parks.

Park Board Member Everett Shockey looks at the remains of Old Rusty in Bayliss Park. The Park Board is planning the installation of an elaborate, modern fountain at the site." [accessed via NewsBank search of Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, on…

Postcard of a park at Lake Manawa

National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for the Park / Glen Avenues Historic District in Council Bluffs. Includes descriptions of buildings and history.

And they're off...Greyhounds work up to a speed of 45 mph as they bullet around the track, but their endurance cannot match that of a race horse.

At left, a walker adds stability to the steps of Katie Nourse, daughter of Cathy and Denny Nourse. Above, Katie learns independence and decision-making skills by choosing which toy she wants to play with that is pictured in the cards her mother is…

Five photographs of parade of an unidentified traveling show on Broadway.

Photograph of Council Bluffs Fire Department in a parade on 300 Block W Broadway.

Reproduction of a panoramic view of Willow Ave. and Pearl St. showing the Public Library and courthouse.

Postcard showing a panoramic view of Main and Broadway.

Pale And Shaken...Charles Edwin Kelly, 20, left, and Charles Noel Brown, 28, are searched by Traffic Officer C. R. Petersen and Detective F.A. (Mike) Kerns. The two men and their woman companion surrendered meekly when officers stopped their bus at…

Woman Companion . . . Josephine Patricia Nesbit sits in an interrogation room at the police station.

These 10 girls will vie Friday evening at Clarinda for the title of Miss Southwest Iowa with the winner of the Lions Club sponsored event competing in the Miss Iowa pageant at Clear Lake. Pictured here at left, back to front are Judy Brewer of…

(Top) - Ready For Action . . . in this 1898 photo are T.H. (Harry) James and Police Sgt. Arthur Slack. Charles Graves, Sewer department foreman, stands in the doorway of the old patrol barn. Slack and Graves died some years ago.

(Bottom) - Telling…

Photograph of men posing with the Paddle Wheel of the M. F. Rohrer which sank at Lake Manawa.

Photograph of the Pacific House Hotel at 430 Broadway in Council Bluffs (Iowa).
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