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Dear Genie Editor's Note and Linn County projects items
A composite note covers Dear Genie submissions asking Iowa related questions, Iowa authors book photo requests, and Minnesota like queries for William Mull en family and Emeline Jennings Lafferty. It also reports Linn County plans for the Great American Smoke-Out campaign led by the American Cancer Society targeting a Nov 17 no smoking day and the Target Five program aiming to cut smoking rates by 1982.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
Dear Genie
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State University Press
Paul Engle
Clarence Andrews
Andrews
The
Palace
Strand
Olympia
Rialto
Capitol
Columbia
Paramount
Grand
Bijou
Majestic
Engle
J.M. Knapp
S. State Avenue
Ames
Middle River Homestead
Ernest Almon Smith
Stuart
Emeline Jennings Lafferty
Calamus
Aileen Eichelberger
Jefferson
London
Linn County
American Cancer Society
Target Five
National Board of Directors
Robert J. Barry