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The city expanded police protection, even temporarily having volunteer police officers to assist the three paid officers.
Former mayor Henry Vollmer accomplished several public works achievements, including large street paving and new sub-divisions being plotted.
He also promised a more business-like government, in terms of financial responsibility and to depoliticize the police department.
In the mid 1920s the city established the first zoning ordinances, electrical traffic signals and street lighting.
They city also expanded with the incorporation of the city of Rockingham and the establishment of the Davenport Municipal Airport.
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