NEWSPAPER ARTICLES FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS INCLUDING HAWK EYE WHICH IS THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN IOWA
Selected articles from 19th century newspapers published in or about DesMoines County Iowa.
CONTRIBUTORS: Articles donated by volunteers to Cathy for display on Iowa Old Press.
Cathy Joynt LaBath
Irish News Bad times, famine and wars, drove thousands of Irish a month to New York.
Irish Emigration to Iowa Many of the Irish, English and Germans also migrated to Iowa.
Irish Fineans in Iowa Finians were Irish whom among other things wanted to drive England from Canada.
Bad weather in Iowa, lost crops and many deaths. Terrible weather destroyed crops, blocked roads and railways and many people froze to death or lost limbs to frostbite.
Bad weather in Iowa continued.
Connie Street
Newspaper Store_Ads Store ads, images and photos, from the City of Des Moines.
Debbie Clough Gerscher
Don Kelly
Hawk Eye about Burlington 1836 - 1850
New Text Document about news 50 to 100 years old from compeating newspapers. Under Transcription
Iowa Newspaper List A list of newspapers on tape held by Rootsweb-Ancestry.