ARTICLES FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS LIKE HAWK EYE
Selected articles from 19th century newspapers published in or
about DesMoines County Iowa, and from as far away as New York and other East Coast newspapers.
CONTRIBUTORS: Articles donated by volunteers to Cathy for display on Iowa Old Press.
Cathy Joynt LaBath
Bad times, famine and wars, drove thousands of Irish a month to New York.
Among the Irish, English, Germans, Swedish and Welsh migrated to Iowa.
Finians were Irish who wanted to drive England from Canada.
Bad weather in Iowa, report #1:
Terrible weather destroyed crops, blocked roads and railways and many people froze to death or lost limbs to frostbite.
Bad weather in Iowa, report #2:
Death Dealt Out By the Bitter Cold, Reports from all Parts of the Union
Connie Street
Newspaper Store_Ads Store ads, images and photos, from the City of Des Moines.
Debbie Clough Gerscher
Raymond_Mathews_Murdered_1917.htm
Don Kelly
Hawk Eye about Burlington 1836 - 1850
Settlers who came too early were evicted by soldiers.