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The Burlington Railroad Depot...has been purchased by Blue Star Foods Inc. whose main plant and offices are located across the street from the 79-year-old building. The depot has been used as a freight office since the advent of the Amtrak system and…

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A.L. students...Diane Elgan and Nancy Smith admire the battle-scarred, Civil War cannon recently planted in the new school's courtyard.

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(Top) Old Capitol Today . . . after more than 100 years of service to SUI, overlooks a campus of more than 100 modern buildings.

(Bottom) Strength And Grace . . . typify the hanging spiral staircase with its unique reverse curve. The staircase…

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Keeping up to date on auto salvage parts for late model autos is a big job. Darrell Schoening, operator of the Hi-Way 92 Auto Salvage, is quick to explain that his business is not a "junk yard." Even current models are found in the yard. Purchased…

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On The Hot Line . . . Darrell Schoening talks to other members of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Auto and Truck Recyclers Association, all 25 of whom are connected to "hot line" service. He's in search for a part that's not in stock in his yard.…

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End Of The Line . . . for autos that have been stripped of useable parts is in the burner where fumes and smoke are washed into a filter basin while the car is torched of all but the metal. The metals are then delivered to a junk yard.

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Ol' Chance...may be a senior citizen in the canine world but to his master, Charles Thacjer, he's still top dog. The two met "by chance" 15 years ago.

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First United Presbyterian Church, 634 Willow Ave. is doomed for destruction. The Rev. David McCalmont, pastor of the church is standing at its front entrance which has not been used for the past month. The congregation voted unanimously Sunday to…

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Raymond Lintell . . . president of the Mills County Historical Society, leans against a 1929 Ford pickup once used by the Glenwood Transit Lines Inc., as he surveys the collection of agricultural equipment and machinery in the latest addition to the…

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Button Box . . . on the right is demonstrated by Asst. Fire Chief Norman Elgan. Disks inserted in the box would cause the other station's gongs, like one on left, to ring out the fire's location.

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Alarm's Brain . . . was this copper, brass, glass and white marble beauty known as a repeater. All 40 street fire alarm boxes were monitored through the device. Ticker tape punched out code to correspond to alarm box number.

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Harry Wendt and Lawrence "Babe" Kohlscheen prepare to paint the exterior of a house which will become a Victorian Bed and Breakfast Inn that will offer antique-furnished rooms in the restored turn-of-the-century house in Avoca.

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Smoke Pours From Openings . . . in the building at 1401 S. Main St. This is the east side of the structure.

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Firemen With Hose . . . battle their way into the burning building as heavy black smoke pours skyward.

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Vacated By The Railroad...this section of the Burlington Freight Depot will be leased to a local concern for warehouse storage.

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Home Executive Director David Lemen...found the cornerstone included a hand-written letter from his great-great-grandfather revealing E.C. Clapp, president of the Bank of Shelby, donated $25,000 of his parents' money for the building. Other contents…

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Old Carriage House . . . at residence of the late Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, looked like this in 1910. The picture was taken from Fairview Avenue.

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Making Plans . . . for an antique machinery and threshing show are A.C. Eshelman with Mrs. Roxanne Vance, who will work in the old Wilson Post Office in the background. The postal building has been renovated and moved to the Eshelman Rural Museum…

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Mail Distribution . . . will once again take place in the old Wilson Post Office, now relocated to the Eshelman Rural Museum east of Elliott. A.C. Eshelman, owner of the museum and showgrounds, takes a package from Mrs. Roxanne Vance, Elliott…

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Photograph of the Old Power House, 29th Street and 1st Avenue, after tornado.
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