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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

Irish News

Bad times, famine and wars, drove thousands of Irish a month to New York.

Irish Emigration to Iowa

Among the Irish, English, Germans, Swedish and Welsh migrated to Iowa.

Irish Fineans in 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

Military Honor Roll 

Newspaper Store_Ads Store ads, images and photos, from the City of Des Moines.

Debbie Clough Gerscher

Samuel_Puckett_Desertion_1925

Raymond_Mathews_Murdered_1917.htm

Don Kelly

Hawk Eye about Burlington 1836 - 1850

Settlers who came too early were evicted by soldiers.