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Prohibition Debates and Road Plans Stir Iowa Towns
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes Prohibition era disputes and a push by Senator Dickinson as the state debates liquor laws. It covers Sioux City resistance, highway paving plans on TL from Braddyville to Spirit Lake, and concerns over diagonal roads. It mentions government loans, land banks, and local road funding amid farming and political contention.
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Verne Marshall
Cedar Rap@&e Gazette
Towa
University of Towa
Marshall
Verne
Sioux City
Lown
Siouxy City
Haddock
Ennex
Covington
M. & St. i. Railway
Iowa Lepislature
Iowa
Braddyville
Spirit Lake
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Okoboji Lake
Minnesota
Buena Vista
Sac
Dickinson
Storm Lake
Buena Vista County
Sioux Rapids
Sac City
Odebolit
Wall Lake
Lake View
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Highway Commission
Shaw
Lookingbill
Omaha Land Bank