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What Cheer Echoes Past and Present Hard Times
In What Cheer Iowa Mayor Delmar McKay city clerk Mrs. Byrne Custer and two widows recall the 113 year history of their town once a coal boom center now shrinking to 868 residents. They discuss fire taxes bands opera house and plans for a civic center amid aging streets and waiving memories of Bob McClume and past prosperity.
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Delmar McKay
Red Crow Seed Co
Nanke
United Presbyterian Church
McDonald
Bob McClume
McKay
McClume
Keokuk County
Iowa
Poweshiek
Bob McClure
Peter Britton
Petersburgh
Britton
Oskaloosa
Frank Sinatra Jr
Washington
Des Moines