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State Fair Profits and Tragedy Highlight Iowa News
State fair profit for the Iowa fair this year is 90219 with 54000 earmarked for cattle barn and sales ring. Attendance fell from 75000 to 24011 fewer than last year due to high prices poor weather and farm labor shortages. A railway wreck near Iowa City killed a young man whose identity remained unknown at first. Mr and Mrs Mulvihill sought their son Thomas but later learned the remains were not his.
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