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Title: Story of Lee County, Iowa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Moorhead, Samuel W., 1849- Roberts, Nelson Commins, 1856-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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orner of Seventh and Blondeau streets and about twoyears later the new building was opened to the public. It is a sub-stantial structure of stone and brick, two stories high, the main floorbeing devoted to the handling and distribution of mails and the secondstory to the United States Court. In the tower is a clock which marksthe time and strikes the hours. In 1914 the Keokuk postoffice em-ployed, besides the postmaster and assistant postmaster, fourteen citycarriers, three substitute carriers, two rural carriers, twelve clerksand three janitors. The annual receipts of the office, in round num-bers, amount to $83,000. INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION On January 22, 1906, the Keokuk Commercial Club was organ-ized ^for the purpose of fostering the splendid industries now flour-ishing and to encourage additional manufacturing enterprises thatmay wish to locate in the city. In January, 1911, the club was succeeded by the Keokuk Indus-trial Association, with C. R. Joy as president and A. D. Ayres as
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St. Josephs Hospital. Federal Court House and Post Office. Keokuk Public Library.VIEWS OF KEOKUK Hij^h School and UnitedPresbyterian Church.Y. M. C. A. Building. HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 149 secretary. Soon after the association was organized, it inaugurateda clean up campaign, under the auspices of the committee on parks,playgrounds and general improvements. Later in the year, throughthe advertising agency of N. W. Ayer & Son, of Philadelphia, Penn-sylvania, the association expended about eleven thousand dollars inadvertising the advantages of the city in some of the leading maga-zines of the country. In the spring of 1912, John Nolen, an experi-enced landscape architect of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was em-ployed by the association to present plans for the beautification ofthe city. His work was completed in the fall of 1913 and his planshaye been adopted by the mayor and city commissioners. Another publicity campaign was conducted in the summer of1913, when an especially trained ma

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