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Bethany Lutheran Home...will open it's [sic] doors for inspection Sunday. Fifteen Lutheran Churches in the area have spent $2 million getting the nursing home ready. First patients are expected in mid-June.

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Nursing Home - 501 Frank

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Six postcards from Wilcox, Meneray, and Smith nurseries.

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The heat is nothing to lose your head over but this old gent in Bayliss Park appears to have done just that. Actually he was dropping his head on his chest while sitting in the shade. Recent highs of 107 and 110 are even too hot for a hat.

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Old-timers have many memories of scenes like this, created Thursday afternoon when a major power failure plunged The Nonpareil and the rest of Council Bluffs into darkness. State Editor Verne Peyser prepares news copy about the blackout by the light…

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Postcard of the Northwest Bell Telephone Building

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3 photos - Northeast corner of 40th St. and West Broadway(Playland Park roller coaster)

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Northcrest Manor - 34 Northcrest

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Photograph of Southeast corner of North 2nd St. Start of Kanesville Blvd.

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Five photographs of the corner of North and East Pierce St.

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Norman F. Elgan, Chief (Dec. 21, 1966 to Oct. 1. 1982)

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Harry Mauck Jr. . . . spent 44 years on The Nonpareil, serving in various positions from reporter to managing editor. His last position was associate editor, writing editorials and covering the Iowa legislature.

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This Gigantic Mural . . . painted on a wall in the Toddler's classroom at First Christian Church illustrates Noah calling the birds and beasts to join him and his family aboard his ark to preserve them from the great flood. The artist was Mrs. Roy…

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Volunteer Helper . . . E.N. Schrimplen of Glenwood lends a hand in moving appliances from the Herb Lincoln home.

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At Trouble Spot on North Levee...army engineers are building a tie-back levee from the hill through Big Lake park and joining the main levee between the North western and Illinois Central railroad tracks.

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Going Up In Hamburg . . . is a combination Legion Hall and bowling lanes. And gathered on this Main Street corner are some of the men responsible for Hamburg's growth - Jack Douglas, Dick Dugan, John Gottsche and Miller Payne.

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The Familiar Sight . . . of the cone-shaped scrap burner at the Midwest Walnut Co. plant will make way for three shavers and a drier to convert waste materials.

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Standing Vacant . . . is the old East Elementary School near the downtown Glenwood business district. The Glenwood Low Rent Housing Agency wanted the site for a housing complex for area elderly.
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