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Yes, it's a great photo -- and it beautifully captures the changeable weather of the Upper Midwest without perhaps having intended to do so. But there's a menacing "Inside the Beltway" quality to the image, too, which perhaps is appropriate, given Iowa's make-or-break early caucus status.
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An umbrella created by Claes Oldenburg, no less.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, the pictured 1850s-vintage Musser Mansion on W. 3rd may have been used as a "clinic" by medical quack Norman Baker. If it wasn't this house, it was another large old place nearby. Baker claimed to have found a cure for cancer, though he had little or no medical training. (His prior achievements had included inventing a new kind of calliope and founding Muscatine's radio station). The state pulled his license to operate a hospital, so he relocated to Arkansas, buying the old Eureka Springs Hotel, where some of his most infamous treatments happened in the late '30s and '40s. Under federal scrutiny for fraud and possible murder charges, he eventually fled to Mexico, where he tried to set up another "clinic."
I remember this house very clearly from the '60s and '70s. It's nice to see its exterior with a historically correct facelift, after decades of neglect and strange residents.
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