In 1929, my grandparents, Dorothy and Len Myers, opened Myers Maid-Rite in downtown Iowa City on Washington Street across from …
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In 1929, my grandparents, Dorothy and Len Myers, opened Myers Maid-Rite in downtown Iowa City on Washington Street across from …
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As I sit down to write this thing, I’m just in from shoveling snow from my sidewalk that leads from …
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