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Show HOQ HOTEL 3 FLOOKS, 50 EOOMS, 500 GUESTS . . . Once a flourishing "watering place" for dignified ladies and their very proper hosbands, the old Hotel Colfax at Colfax, Iowa, now shelters the elite of the hog world purebred swine which are being developed as seed stock for Midwest farmers. Picture at left shows a sow feeding her brood In the old marble lobby of the hotel. Wayne Fox, former army air corps captain and one of the brothers now running the National Swine Palace, is the man taking notes. A general view of the once ornate hotel Is shown at the left, while Inset Is the old hotel ball room, now the scene of livestock auctions where the boars and gilts strut their stuff. |
