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Cosmopolitan Mason City cited for foreign born share
JARNAGIN notes Mason City as the most cosmopolitan Iowa city with at least 30 percent foreign born, listing residents from many nations and regions. He also cites E. Whitlock on cattle tuberculosis eradication and details on Paul Higgins of Greene, a U.S. veteran and ship yeoman who died at Ellis Island. The piece then lists inmate and patient counts across Iowa state institutions as of March 1.
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