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AND THEN IT RAINED* j3ieii one is told that tile tnms-contiaental tourist j ; his worst roads In IowuT -we think? of the east ! west highways that are,traveled by those cross-! the country in the path of the sun. But it seems north and south tourists have the same reason to sutber us.. a recent meeting at Ames, the matter of hardicing the Jefferson Highly from JDes Moines*fi to the Missouri line ■was considered- The high-is already surfaced In Missouri or paring has contracted for. It is paved or graveled from Moines to Winnipeg. From Des Moines to the ouri line Ss the only portion of the highway Xew Orleans to Winnipeg for which no con-s have been let for improvement, according toj i JL Shepard, of Mason Ci!yt who called thej mg. _ 1lose who attended the meeting were agreed that J jthing should be done- Tlae only trouble was many of the southern Iowa delegates* who were . interested, could not get to Ames because it I td just then, and demonstrated conclusively just]. the tourists say—that you can't travel across after a rain.
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Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Mon, Nov 09, 1925
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