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Iowa Small Towns

"...Jefferson 20, Perry 7. It was Ames over Marshalltown, 42-6. Lake City 14, Rockwell City 13. Lamoni 20, Leon 0. Winterset shut out Indianola 13-0..." And on and on the scores continue in a geographic litany every Friday from football through basketball and into spring baseball season. From these radio broadcasts Iowa children learn the names of towns before they have any idea where the communities are.

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