Tillotson Construction’s Ralston, Iowa, project ‘progressing nicely’ in 1939

Ralston, Iowa–The work on the new annex at the Farmers Elevator is progressing nicely. The Tillotson Construction Company of Omaha will soon have it ready to store grain.

Carroll (Iowa) Daily Herald, Wednesday, September 13, 1939

Note: The New York Times visited Ralston in 2006 for a story about inadequate storage capacity in the face of madly expanding corn production.

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