Music Man Square Seeks Trombones for Display
Mason City AP Musicians are urged to donate unused trombones to the Meredith Willson Museum. Willson, a Mason City native who wrote The Music Man, had ties to the Karl King Band and performed with Sousa for the Barnum & Bailey Circus through Fort Dodge connections.
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Music Man Square
Mason City
Meredith Willson
Willson
Carl Marten
Pomeroy
Fort Dodge
Marten
Karl King
John Phillip Sousa
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Mason City seeks 76 trombones for museum display
The Mason City museum plans a permanent 76 Trombones exhibit with ceiling hanging instruments. A June 3 ribbon cutting will mark the display opening. Darrell Fisher reports 36 trombones collected from donors, mainly in northern Iowa, with donor names to be listed on a wall plaque and tax deductions available.
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Darrell Fisher
Music Man Square
Mason City
Iowa
Mason City Foundation
Trio of Iowa Civil War era Black men linked to Worth Mitchell area
Shar lene Stoddard of Northwood researches three Black men Wallace McKinney William Wright and J Solomon Stratton who settled in Worth Mitchell counties in the 1860s and 70s Their Civil War service ties to local farms and a Union veteran narrative including McKinney born about 1848 on a Mississippi Davis plantation and Wright in 1837 serving in the Kentucky Volunteers Stratton linked to Union general Verbeck Wrights family ties and marriage reveal further connections Stoddard seeks official records to confirm roles in the Union war effort.
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ST. Ansgar
Sharlene Stoddard
Northwood
Stoddard
Worth-Mitchell County
Iowa
Jefferson Davis
Phil Fleischer
Wallace McKinney
William Wright
J. Solomon Stratton
McKinney
Lois Hogan
Manly Signal
Phil
Davis
Mississippi
Nathaniel) Banks
Red River
Seymour McKinley
Kensett Cemetery
Wright
Kentucky Volunteers
Manly
Verbeck
Worth County
Stratton
Anna Marie
Council Bluffs signs violate state election law
Secretary of State official says Council Bluffs school district posted signs near polling sites in violation of Iowa law prohibiting election day signs within 300 feet of a polling place. Signs listed projects funded by a local option sales tax and were removed by the county deputy auditor. The measure was defeated.
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Council Bluffs
Secretary of State
Bob Galbraith
Iowa
Pottawattamie County
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Rock Falls Township
Plymouth
Newburg
Carpenter
John Solomon Stratton
Virginia
Tence
Charles Verbeck
Mark Peterson
Galbraith
Rick Crowl
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Department of Psychiatry
Stephanie Rosazza
Aniversity Health Care
Culver’s Garden Center
Pete Eeany
Ifree
Gardenin
el Ehoom
Easte Film Processing
KODAK
Cedar Rapids & Marion An
LASIR
David Muller, M.D
1St Avenue
Cedar Rapids
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