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The inauguration on May 14tli of through high class passenger service over the new Rock Island Short Line between Des Moines and the Twin Cities marks the beginning of important changes in the railroad map of Iowa, aud incidentally establishes a number of new transportation routes of vital importance to Des Moines, St. Paul, Minneapolis aud tributary territory on the north, and the entire southwest.
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