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Local notes and incidents across Iowa and nearby towns
Reports cover church constructions and dedications in Washta and Dubuque, naturalization filings in Clinton, a robbed Northwestern ticket office in Des Moines, and the Salvation Army’s hall rental in Boone. Other items note debts, gas wells, cedar pavements, charity funds, deaths, court cases, and civic plans in Council Bluffs, Davenport, Muscatine, Cedar Rapids, and Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Boone
Samuel Crosby
Centerville
John Mansfield
Rock Island
Muscatine
Dave Swearinger
Creston
Dan Carrigg
Council Bluffs
Salvation Army
James L. Estes
Keokuk
Chicago
Lee County
Hodges
Nauvoo
Davenport
Democrat-Gazette
Moline
Church of the Sacred Heart
Rocheser
N. Y
Burrell
Pioneer Press
Westminster Church
Minneapolis
Jonathan Jones
David Roberts
Jones
Burlington
Fort Dodge
Sioux City
Mosher
Aurelia
Central House