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Warming His Feet . . . in front of the old wood-burning stove in Boomer Township Hall during Tuesday's election is Fred George, township clerk, while Chester Driver, voting judge at the hall, stokes the stove with a walnut log.

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The state archeologist will be asked to investigate human skeletal remains discovered protruding from a bank east of Council Bluffs. Pictures is a ribcage. Remains of at least two people may have been buried during Mormon migrations through this…

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Etching of a sketch by George Simons showing the Blockhouse, converted into a mission by Pierre-Jean De Smet.

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From Its Cupola . . . atop Central Fire Station, the heavy bell is lowered to a waiting truck.

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Weighing In Salvage Beer Cans . . . is Tom Spetman, Route 3, sales manager for K and K Distributing Co. Consumers who bring in aluminum cans for recycling are paid 15 cents a pound, nearly double the price at local junk yards. The aluminum cans are…

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At Recycling Collection Center . . .bag after bag of crushed beer cans are unloaded from an auto by Les Kelly, 604 Wilson Ave., driver-salesman for K and K, Mike Blanchard of Atlantic and Gary Popp of Atlantic. The collection center is at 925 S. 6th…

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Iowa consumers turned in 4.6 million beer cans and bottles in 1974 for recycling by the Olympia Brewing Company. They received $58,880 for their efforts. In Council Bluffs, K and K Distibuting Co. President Roy Rolfe said that results are expected to…

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"Hello There . . . I'm what's left of the City Auditorium". So wrote Robert Acklie, a Washington School sixth-grader, when he was an auditorium-for-a-day as an essay assignment. Bob is the son of Mrs. Genevieve Acklie of 179 Wendover Drive, and Leroy…

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Photograph of the old and new IC Bridge over the Missouri river.

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Billowing Steam...blossoms from the stack of locomotive 8444 in Omaha Sunday. The top of the stack is 16 feet 2 inches above the tracks. The engine has logged more than 1.7 million miles since it was placed in operation in 1944. After refitting in…

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Huge Drivers...are 80 inches in diameter and develop a starting tractive force of 63,800 pounds. Many in the crowd at Valley, Neb., held tape recorders near the hissing steam locomotive to record a sound that isn't heard much anymore.

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Reproduction of a photograph of the first Ogden Hotel. Built in 1869 and destroyed by fire in 1874.

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Photograph of the Ogden Hotel. Southeast corner of Park Avenue and Broadway. Built in 1876.

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23 color slides of the interior and exterior of the Ogden Hotel. Taken from June, 1966 to July, 1967.

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Four photographs of the Ogden Hotel Building - Southeast corner of Park Ave and Broadway. One photo of Ogden Hotel site.

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Reproduction of a photograph of the exterior of the Ogden Hotel.

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Ironic Story . . . is told by this Air Force survival booklet in the death car driven by S. Sgt. James W. Collins.

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Crossing A Busy Intersection . . . isn't easy for a handicapped person. And to prove the point and promote community awareness of the handicapped, Police Chief Nick Sulentic attempts to cross the street as a blind person while Mayor Joseph B.…

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Mayor C.E. Myrland of Onawa snips the ribbon officially opening the Onawa-Sloan segment of Interstate Highway 29. To Mayor Myrland's right is Everett Shockey, Council Bluffs, member of the Iowa Highway Commission who shared the ribbon cutting duties.…

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Consists of drawings made by Simons during railroad survey projects in Iowa and Nebraska beginning in 1853.

Offices of N. P. Dodge from June 1862 to 1863 located near Broadway & Bancroft St. about no 341 (building on left). Offices of N. P. Dodge…
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