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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The River

DUBUQUE, April 30. – River risen 5 inches in the last 24 hours. It is now within 9 inches of high water mark.

CLINTON, Iowa, April 30. – Water has risen 9 ½ inches since noon yesterday.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill., April 30. – The river is rising at the rate of 7 inches during the last four days and still rising fast.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3

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