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Index of marriages recorded in Council Bluffs from 1903 - 1940.
Index of marriages recorded in Council Bluffs from November 1902 through 1940, and to marriages recorded at the Avoca courthouse from 1885 to 1921. Index created by the Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society which houses the original records.…
Independent Hog Buyers barns
Photograph of cars and trucks outside of the Independent Hog Buyers barns in Council Bluffs (Iowa).
Independence Day
A Victorian Mansion...will again provide the background for an old-fashioned lawn party today when the Park Board and the board of trustees of the Historic Gen. Dodge House serve ice cream, cake, and pink lemonade. The four young ladies, in cotton…
Increase In Lay Teachers Drains Funds From Schools; The Parochial Problem
Comment From Des Moines...on the financial troubles of local and other Catholic schools were made by the Rev. James Holden, Bishop Maurie Dingman and Sister Elizabeth Clare, elementary consultant for the diocese.
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In With The Old
Restoration of the 100-year-old main staircase in the Kiel Hotel is almost complete. Jere Robinson and Don Blankenship, employees of Life Style Inc., make some last-minute measurements Thursday on the refinished bannister leading to the second floor.…
In tight farm money market. Land bank offers an alternative.
Implement dealers . . . like this one in Harlan, are well-stocked with merchandise this time of year, but sales are dragging somewhat. Farmers in Southwest Iowa, like those everywhere, are finding money together to get -- even at today's usurious…
In The Service
Ballenger [in ROTC cadet uniform, receiving Distinguished Milirary Student Award]
In the halls of learning . . . Thanksgiving impresses three foreign students
Emptying a cornucopia . . . symbolic of abundance, are Masahiko Nemoto and Paula Ylanne who like the idea of Thanksgiving Day. -- Nonpareil Photo
In Slaying Case:
Assembled on the desk of County Att. Matt Walsh is the material gathered in the Carter Lake slaying of Joseph David Nixon, 18, Omaha. Walsh is holding the bloody shirt taken from the home of Larry D. Jackson, 36, Omaha, a suspect. The cans contain…
In She Goes!
A construction crane carefully hoists a 10-ton manhole into a hole at the east end of Bayliss Park. The manhole is for use of Iowa Power and Light Co., which will run power lines to the new fountain in the park.
In its 50th year, Blue Star Foods casts an eye toward the consumers
William and John Kaplan show off their line of frozen foods. The local company has shifted its emphasis away from government contracting.
In Council Bluffs, You May Stand In Abe's Footprints
Golden Spike Monument . . . commemorates completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
In 1950s, Bluffs library in a period of expansion
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Browsing in the newly opened . . . Mark Twain Room are (from left) Margie Hodge, 10, Lorraine Hodge, 7, and Rita Walsh, 7, all students from St. Francis School. -1952 Nonpareil file photo.
Browsing in the newly opened . . . Mark Twain Room are (from left) Margie Hodge, 10, Lorraine Hodge, 7, and Rita Walsh, 7, all students from St. Francis School. -1952 Nonpareil file photo.
Illinois Man Heads Schools
Dr. Leonard Gregory
Illinois Central Station, Council Bluffs, IA
Three postcards depicting the Illinois Central Station.
Illinois Central Railroad Trestle
Photograph of the Illinois Central Railroad Trestle over Big Lake north of Council Bluffs
Illinois Central Drawbridge Is One Of Largest Of Its Type
Shown above is a typical scene at the Illinois Central bridge over the Missouri River as it is opened to permit the passage upstream of an army engineer's paddle wheeler with a barge load of building materials. The draw which is open, is on the Iowa…
Illinois Central Bridge postcards
Six postcards of Illinois Central Railroad Bridge over the Missouri River.