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This Modern Kitchen . . . where Mrs. Gary James is cooking another meal for her family, certainly doesn't look like a former classroom.

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It May Look . . . like a schoolhouse on the outside, but "Cottonwood Hill" instead of "McClelland School" over the door gives you a clue to the changed look of the interior. Gary James claims the brick walls of the building are three feet thick.

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Relaxing In The King-Size Living Room . . . Mrs. Gary James and son Jason, 1 year, enjoy the space provided by converting classrooms in the old McClelland School. The living room and connecting dining room were created from two classrooms once…

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In Its Heyday...the fountain in Bayliss Square was a popular meeting place for Council Bluffs residents, young and old alike. This photo is from an old postcard.

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Digging For The Stern...of the riverboat is some of the equipment at the excavation site at the De Soto National Wildlife Refuge after the bow section (arrow shows location) was uncovered Thursday.

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The Front Section...of either the Bertrand or Cora is shown at bottom of digging site. A section of hull, at left, curves around old tree stump and boarded portion appears to be part of a deck containing a hatch (where small chain is located).

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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