Browse Items (8329 total)
Sort by:
Shugart-Beno Block
Photograph of the Shugart-Beno Block. Northwest corner of First Avenue and Main Street. Burned December 3, 1925.
Sidewalk petition may force installation assessment plan
Concil Bluffs City Councilman Sam Irwin has filed a petition from 26 residents asking the city to install a sidewalk along Madison Avenue from Palmer Avenue to Bennett Avenue. There are currently no sidewalks on either side of Madison Avenue--a…
Sidewalk petition may force installation assessment plan
Council Bluffs City Councilman Sam Irwin has filed a petition from 26 residents asking the city to install a sidewalk along Madison Avenue from Palmer Avenue to Bennett Avenue. There are currently no sidewalks on either side of Madison Avenue--a…
Sign Comes Down
The old sign designating the former Hotel Chieftain has been taken down, making way for the new Bluffs Towers in the renovated building. The 60-foot sign was taken down Tuesday. Riding a wooden box on an 85-foot dragline boom, iron workers Don and…
Signature On Will
Mr. G.W. Kirn, former Council Bluffs school master, attests to his signature on a will of the late Drew Pearson, Washington newspaper columnist who died last month. Pearson, who spoke before Southwest Iowa Teachers here on Oct. 13, 1938, died leaving…
Silent Town Of Bentley--Once A Booming Community; Progess has Taken Its Toll
Main Street...of Bentley today is quiet and empty. Business places have all closed and buildings are boarded shut.
Sioux City
Drawing of Sioux City Iowa, 1856.
Sisters Are First To Be Confirmed - Share Life In New Country And Church
Emanuel Lutheran Church . . . located at North Seventh and Mill Streets.
Site a blaze
City Electrician L. W. Roper, rear, and Fire Chief Waldo Merrill enter the burned out home of Mrs. Richard M. Allen at 3207 Sixth Ave. after the fire was extinguished. Four of Mrs. Allen's five children died in the blaze Wednesday night. Story on…
Site Work Is Continuing
Site Work Is Continuing...at the location of the new Franklin Elementary School which will house 425 students. The structure, which is being built, at Thirty second Street and Avenue C, south of the present building, is expected to be ready for…
Six Parlor Chairs From Dodge's Old Home To Historical Society - Donated By Grandchildren
Checking Historic Chairs . . . are R.B. Graeme and Mrs. Laverne Tollinger.
Sixth graders specialize in international problems; Tax problem solvers
Showing Off Their Trophy...are Glendale teacher Yvette McCulley and four of her students who won the elementary school division of the state Problem-Solving Bowl. They are Michelle Smith, Kelly Groce, Todd Pettepier and Linda Benton.
Skills grow as well. Paramedics gaining acceptance
Checking radio . . . of their emergency unit's monitoring equipment are Don Spencer, Wayne McCunn and Bob Hazelwood of the Pottawattamie County Emergency Care Division. The unit allows the paramedics to keep hospital staff alerted to a patient's…
Skimming The Waves
Skimming The Waves...on North Fortieth Street near Avenue G is George Vogel, Jr., 13, hitched to his father's car. The Vogels, 622 N. 40th St., hauled out a makeshift surfboard when the Memorial Day storm created a pond 2 feet deep in the street and…
Sky Fighters ride at Playland Park
Photograph of Sky Fighters ride at Playland Park
Slide at Lake Manawa
Photograph of children on slide at Lake Manawa.
Slide at Lake Manawa
Photograph of a slide at Lake Manawa.
Small a big issue in Senate Match
David Childs
Small But Mighty
Dick Dekker, acting works manager at Griffin Pipe Products here checks a new 400-horsepower electric motor designed to increase the fan capacity on the plant's cupola from 75,000 to 93,000 cubic feet-per-minute. The addition is part of efforts to…