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3	The POW Camp at Algona, IA Steve Feller with help from Jim Kasper
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5	Col. A.T. Lobdell, Commandant
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9	PWs Packing Cans of Corn
10	The Issuance of Coupon Scrip
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16	Camp Algona Money 1,5,10,25, and 50 cent chits Three printings in 1944-1945 $805,000 in chits printed Four dollar denominations of booklets: $1, $3, $5, and $10 Printed by Kelsey Coupon Co, Cincinnati, OH
17	Propaganda Leaflets
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21	The Nativity Scene
22	Sgt. Edward Koib
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27	Algona Today Seat of Kossuth County, Iowa Population (2000): 5741 This is 272 less than in 1990. The Kossuth County Museum in Algona has much information on the POW Camp. The camp site is now the airport on the edge of town. Only some drainage pipe is from the camp.
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