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It is the year of a new group called the Girl Scouts and two years before a world war. It’s a Midwestern story that begins in 1912, before the state of Iowa became a patchwork of vanishing villages, before Interstate 80 and the World’s Largest Truck Stop. And in Villisca, Iowa, it’s morning, a Monday, June 10, 1912. The Iowa Touring Atlas has just touted Villisca, a town of less than two square miles surrounded by farmland and the forks of the Nodaway River, one of the finest cities in the state. ” Villisca in 1912 has 50 retail stores, no saloons and banks “as strong as the rock of Gibraltar. In this year the ocean swallows a ship called Titanic, a college professor becomes president, and Americans begin eating Oreos. It is the year the John Deere company begins building tractors and Arizona enters the Union and a surprising number of Republicans believe in progressive ideals. ” There is a two-story armory being built that symbolizes the community’s patriotism and pride. This is a story of murder and tourism and ghosts. ” “Pleasant View. More men work as auctioneers than lawyers.

Source: Salon