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Iowa Industrial Review Week Highlights Rail, Dairies and Bridges
Hamburg Owen Mills unveils a Steam electric heating plant while Montour North Western lays new rails between here and Quarry. Des Moines reports 1927 hog shipments up 5 percent from 1926 among 116 Iowa co operatives. Co operative Dairy Marketing transacted over 1 million dollars in 1927. Numerous projects span Mason City beet sugar contracts, Dubuque free bridges drive, and a 204 525 dollar dock system on the Mississippi. Groundbreaks include Ames paving 1928 program, Custer agirdrome noted, and a 15 000 fire truck sold in Jefferson. A statewide arc of infrastructure, industry and trade unfolds across cities including Des Moines Dubuque Marshalltown and Madrid with roads bridges streets and telephones advancing.
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Hamburg
Owen Mills
Montour—North Western Railroad
Iowa Co-Operative Livestock Shipping Associations
Mason City
American Beet Sugar Corporation
Burlington
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Des
Maizewood Manufacturing Company
Delaware County
Belle Plaine
Iowa River
Lincoln
Iowa
Villisca
Nevada
N. C. Neilsen
Marshalltown
Ames
Des Moines
Muscatine
Custer
Custer County Telephone Company
Mes
Local Exchange
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Madrid
Telephone Company
Prople’s Telephone Company
Luther
Winthrop
Dyersville
Washington
Iowia
Southern Utilities Company
Jefferson
Wew Telephone Company
Humboldt
St. Augustine Catholic Church
I Town Creameries
J. C. Penney Company
Hubbell
Cedar Rapids
Lyman
Mortgomery Ward & Co
Estherville
Bettendorf
Bettendorf Company
ML & St. BP. & P. Railroad