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$25.00 Reward
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Description
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Postcard sent by the Montezuma, Iowa, Chief of Police and the Northwestern National Insurance Company to the Sheriff's Office in Leon, Iowa, offering a $25.00 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 1932 Nash Sedan which was stolen in Montezuma on February 17, 1934. The postcard is postmarked February 21, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Date Created
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1934
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PID
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grinnell:12530
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Blue World War I Luggage Tag
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Description
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Roy McNeal's World War I luggage tag reads: Troop Space 23; Bunk No. 22; Mess, 2nd sitting; Abandon Ship station, Raft 63.
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Date Created
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1917
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PID
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grinnell:27216
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City Hall, Montezuma, Iowa
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Description
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Postcard view of City Hall in Montezuma, Iowa. Postcard published by J.M. Hamilton, Monmouth, Illinois. 9867.
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Date Created
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1910
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PID
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grinnell:12505
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Elon Raffety Civil War Discharge Papers
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Description
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Elon Raffety's discharge papers from the 21st Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Captain Davis Greaves Company, dated July 15, 1865, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Elon Raffety moved to Poweshiek County in 1881, settling at Westfield, where he lived until 1893, when he moved to Grinnell.
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Date Created
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1865
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PID
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grinnell:27204
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Grant "Connie" Wilson
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Description
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Grant "Connie" Wilson in his Grinnell, Iowa, firefighter's uniform, circa 1910-1920. Mr. Wilson was probably a volunteer firefighter. Census records show that he worked as a blacksmith/engineer from at least 1900, working at the electric plant in 1910, at a school house in 1920, and at the city water works in 1930.
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Date Created
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1910
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PID
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grinnell:12432
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Joe Biden Campaigning in Grinnell, Iowa
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Description
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Vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) campaigning in Grinnell, Iowa, in 2008. Photographed with Michael Cavanagh, Lynn Cavanagh and Dorrie Lalonde at Cafe Phoenix.
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Date Created
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2008
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PID
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grinnell:5709
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Lowell Fisher, Jr.
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Description
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Lowell Fisher, Jr., poses in his ROTC uniform outside the South Campus loggia on the Grinnell College campus in 1953. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
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Date Created
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1953
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PID
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grinnell:12946
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Michelle Obama Campaigning in Grinnell, Iowa
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Michelle Obama (right) campaigning for her husband at the Mayflower Home Carmen Center in Grinnell, Iowa, in 2008. Lynn Cavanagh, with back to camera, and Tinker Powell (middle).
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Date Created
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2008
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PID
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grinnell:5710
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Poll Tax and Old Age Pension Fund Receipts
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Description
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Receipts made out to Hilliard Turner and Eldora Turner for the Old Age Pension Fund tax levied for 1936, and to Hilliard Turner for the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax, also in 1936.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:3349