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1917’s Flyover Prohibition Campaign Fails To Take Off

โ€œVote Dry October 15thโ€ Those words would appear on the underside of the wings of an airplane scheduled to fly across the state in 1917. The planeโ€™s tail would be painted in red, white and blue stripes. Iowa History, a weekly column, appears at IowaWatch on Saturdays. Cheryl Mullenbach is the author of non-fiction books […]

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