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Tragic death ties to VicTory bread innovator and era stories
A collage of Iowa notes recalls Albert Jamieson once bakery pioneer behind Victory bread, later unidentified death in Minneapolis after a hospital operation. The piece covers river transport revival along Mississippi with barges Ramgey and Winona, home demonstration agents, a public suit over a search warrant, Diamond Joe steamboats legacy, and shifts in land values after 1919 deflation, plus diphtheria stats and popcorn production in Sac and Ida counties.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Albert Clyde Jamieson
Council Bluffs
Jamieson
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Victory
Minneapolis
Mankato
Minn
Mississippi River
St. Paul
St. Louis
Ernest M. Dickey
Chicago
Dubuque
Mississippi
Albert Head
Jefferson
Greene County
Capt. Head
General Assembly