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Keokuk Wins Public Museum by Securing Steamboat
Keokuk Iowa wins a public museum coup by securing the sternwheel steamship George M Verity formerly SS Thorpe from Huntington W Va The boat will be placed in Victory Park next spring as a city museum piloted to Keokuk two weeks ago The gift came after Armco Steel planned to dispose of two steamboats with credit to Jim Kettering of the Chamber of Commerce
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Keokuk
Iowa
George M. Verity
Upper
Mississippi
SS. Thorpe
Inland Waterways Corp
la Crosse
Verity
Deere & Co
Quad Cities
Eastern Rivers
Huntington
W. Va
Victory Park
Jim Kettering