Morley Card Game Draws From Town and Countryside
In Morley Iowa residents gather at the old Milwaukee depot now the Morley Feed and Grain elevator for back euchre games most winter afternoons and on rainy days. About 125 residents join in with banter and jokes while trade talk on hog prices and local sewer plans cuts through the chatter. Players drift in and out as work allows with no one minding losses. the gathering serves as a social hub beside the elevator and two Methodist churches.
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Morley
Milwaukee Railroad
Morley Feed and Grain Elevator
Jones County
Gifford Hansen
Mechanicsville
Glass from rubbish studied for new uses at San Diego lab
University of San Diego researchers test froth flotation to extract glass from municipal waste. Dr. Donald B. Peterson aims to isolate glass particles from bone and pebble residues to produce eco glass, glassphalt, or brick clay substitutes. A pilot plant in Washington will scale to 1.25 tons per hour.
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San Diego
Washington, D.C
University of San Diego
Donald B. Peterson
Peterson
Peteren
College of Arts and Sciences
National Center For Resources Recovery, Inc
Washington
New Bridge Ends Ferry's Cottonwood Connection
Cottonwood Point closes as a new 27 million dollar bridge replaces the Mississippi River ferry service linking Cottonwood Point Missouri with Caruthersville and Memphis Cairo routes. Skipper Eric Taylor retires after 50 years running two ferries, 26 sailors lose jobs as operation ends in 1976. </s>
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COTTONWOOD _ POINT
Cottonwood Point
Eric Taylor
Taylor
Memphis
Cairo
Ill
Missouri Bootheel
Caruthersville
Arkansas
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Morley Elevator
Merle Jackson
K and J Hardware and Grocery
Vicki Conley
Jean McConaughy
Oliver Evans
Philadelphia
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World Almanac
Cedar Rapids
Senior Citizens Bus Service
Marian Arens
Tommy Tucker
Cottonwood
Great Plains Gas
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