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Hawk-Eye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa Territory
February 8, 1844
That Keg of Apples.
On our return from Iowa City we found a keg of fine Jenitan apples, that had been forwarded to us by that fast friend to the whig cause, L.B. Fleak, Esq., of Keokuk. We thank him most cordially, and sincerely hope that he may find a ready sale for the remaining seventy barrels of the same article, which he now has on hand.
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The Keokuk Daily Wigg
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa USA
September 25, 1854 Monday
Vol. 1 No. 177
Public Sale
Notice is hereby given that on the 3rd day of October, 1854, commencing at 9 o'clock a.m., the undersigned Executors of the estate of George Smout, deceased, in Des Moines township, Lee County, Iowa, the following personal property of said deceased.--
Consisting of part of Horses, Hogs, Cows, and Oxen, Plows, Harrows, and other farming utensils; also a large lot of Corn, Oats and Wheat. Terms made known on the day of sale.
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Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
March 4, 1865
OUR STATE

Dr. J. Tarbell a well known resident of Keokuk recently died in Nevada Territory.

Two young men whose names are Deacon and Ralph, were arrested at Bentonsport on Friday, upon the charge of committing a robbery at Keosauqua.

They confess, the Gate City says, to having committed the deed.

R. Buckingham's residence, at Keokuk, was entered Saturday and property carried off to the value of $300. So says the Gate City.
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Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
March 11, 1865
OUR STATE
Christian Bauscher, postmaster at Franklin, Lee county, died on the 20th ult, from the effects of arsenic administered to him on the supposition that it was cream of tartar. The poison was taken from Mr.  Bauscher's own store by a member of his family who attempted to follow the prescription of a physician.
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Daily Gazette
Davenport, Scott co. Iowa
April 10, 1873
Iowa Condensed.

In the city election at Keokuk last Monday D.F. Miller, Democrat, was elected Mayor.

Mr. T.N. Pond, who was killed during the tornado at Burlington, was properly a resident of Keokuk and was buried with Masonic honors at the latter city on Monday.

Besides Mr. Pond, Mrs. Steiger, and the latter's two children, there were killed in the fall of Pond's warehouse at Burlington on Saturday Joseph Trainer, who leaves a wife and four little children in destitute circumstances; J.P. Pendergrast, lately married and a resident of Keokuk; and Israel Neff, also married, whose family is left without means of support. A dozen other persons were more or less injured by the accident, two of whom, Mr. Benj. Swigert and a babe named Burkman, died, making nine deaths in all. ______________________________

Daily Gazette
Davenport, Scott co. Iowa
Saturday morning, April 12, 1873
Iowa Condensed.
John Orm, while crossing the river at Fort Madison, on Wednesday, was drowned by the upsetting of his boat, which got into a swell caused by a passing steamboat. He leaves a wife and two children.
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Burlington Hawk-Eye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
February 19, 1874
Mr. J.P. Yates, a well-known citizen has been arrested and confined in the jail at Keokuk for having one wife in that city and another in Illinois.
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Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
March 31, 1877
IOWA CONDENSED
Keokuk is honored.  Longfellow has written to a Mrs. Winslow, speaking in terms of praise of the poems of her son Herbert. He regards them as "remarkable productions for one so young."
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The New Era
Humeston, Wayne co. Iowa
February 18, 1886
The First and Last Criminal at Ft. Madison The prisoner longest in service is No. 730, Samuel Trogden, sent June 29, 1867, from Wapello county for life, for murder. He has been a good soldier, and had served a term in this prison before the war for horse stealing.  The next 'veteran' is No. 823, J.B. Mathews, committed May 1868, from Washington county for murder. Both were well behaved and Mathews is too old to work. The youngest recruit came to-day, bears the name of Johnson, and gets the number 4,277, which represents the total number of men who have been confined here since the prison passed under state control in 1849. The first prisoner, or No. 1, was Isaac Grimes, of Cedar county, committed September 22, 1849, under a sentence for sixty days for "assault with intent to commit great bodily injury." Grimes was a native of Indiana, 32 years old, and some man had probably called him a liar, which no Indiana man would take. He was pardoned after languishing eight days. This prison was began under federal auspices in 1839, but there is no record beyond "No. 1" as aboveR
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The New Era
Humeston, Wayne co. Iowa
February 25, 1886
David W. Blackburn died at Keokuk last week. He was a conductor on the first road built north of Keokuk, now owned by the Burlington route, from 1858 to 1881. At the latter date he was elected County Treasurer, and at the end of his second term an examination ofhis books showed that he was short about $15,000. A suit, pending ever since, has been continued on account of Blackburn's bad health, the last continuance being last week.

-F.P. Moore went to Keokuk this week to visit and attend the conductors ball. -Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bean, Elmer and Miss Clara Markley attended the conductors ball at Keokuk, this week.
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Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
January 13, 1898
Mr. Ed Calloway has been arrested at Keokuk on the charge of passing counterfeit money.
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Fredericksburg News
Fredericksburg, Chickasaw co. Iowa
February 3, 1898
The News in Iowa
Double Iowa Murder
Burlington, Jan. 31 - The dead bodies of Mrs. Fanny Rathburn and her 12-year-old daughter Mary were found frozen stiff in pools of blood at their home just west of the city. The woman had been struck in the head with an ax, which was found leaning against a near-by wall. Her head was split open. The body of the child was found in a bedroom with her throat cut from ear to ear. Proof of a terrible struggle for life was visible on all sides. It is thought the crime was committed nearly a week ago, as the woman had not been seen since that time, the neighbors thinking they had gone to the country. Four men have been arrested, being men who had visited her from the neighborhood of Greenbay township. (Lee County)
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Unknown newspaper published in Lee County, Iowa
Sept. 21, 1898

A SOLDIER'S FUNERAL
Fort Madison Turns Out En Masse to the Obsequies Over Herbert Forney.
The funeral of Herbert Forney of Company G. Fiftieth Iowa, who died at
Jacksonville, occurred at Fort Madison Sunday afternoon, and the whole city
seemed to be attending the obsequies. The services were held in the Santa Fe
Avenue Methodist church. Interment being in the Atlee Cemetery.
Long before the hour announced for the services, the church was completely
filled, and when 2 O'clock arrived, the crowd surrounded the church in a dense
mass, the building being merely an island in an ocean of people. After the
services, the procession to the cemetery was formed with the Grand Army post
and the soldiers of the present war who happen to be at the home in front,
followed by the city officials, the police department, the employees of the
Santa Fe road, and the fire department of the city, in the order named.
Forney was a very popular young man who was hearty and a fireman when he went
to the front. He died of fever in a hospital in Jacksonville, and his father
brought his body home for burial.
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Unknown Paper
Jan 7 1899
Officers Hanson and Broadus of the Keokuk police force, who were suspended for fifteen days for drunkenness have been requested by the mayor to resign.
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Unknown newspaper published in Lee County, Iowa
March 16, 1899

Peter Coleman, an aged colored man died at the county house Sunday night. He was about 75 years old and was born and reared in Virginia. He came to this city at the close of the rebellion from Helena, Ark., with a number of freedmen brought north by General Curtis. He lived for a time at Eddyville and Knoxville. For thirty years he was employed in the family of Samuel Klein. He was faithful and industrious and had many friends. On account of the infirmities of old age which rendered him almost helpless, he was taken to the county house.
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Keokuk Daily Gate City
August 12, 1899
(Terry Altheide)
A colored man by the name of Goins came to the police station yesterday afternoon and made the force
a present of a large human skullwhich he had dug up in a barn at 1519 Franklin Street. The article
is in excellant condition and after it has been polished will make a pretty peice or ornamentation for
the desk in the office at the station.
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The New Era
Humeston, Wayne, Iowa
March 22, 1899
THE NEWS IN IOWA
One Man's Sad Ending.
KEOKUK, March 17 - Henry J. Luder, once a prosperous shoe manufacturer of Keokuk, died in the city jail. He had been taken there in the patrol wagon early in the morning and was placed in a cell until he could be sent to the county poor farm, but death claimed him before the superintendent arrived. He was once possessed of considerable means, but he died friendless and alone, after subsisting on charity for a long time. His wife is now an inmate of the insane ward at the county house.
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New Era
Humeston, Wayne, Iowa
March 7, 1900
THE NEWS IN IOWA
FORT MADISON, March 3 - Hazel Rogers, 12 years of age, a bright and prepossessing child, committed suicide by shooting herself in the heart. Although little is known regarding the cause, it is believed she grieved over a childish love affair until death seemed the only relief.
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Lime Springs Sun
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
Thursday, February 23, 1905
Of Interest in Iowa - A Diary of Noteworthy Happenings

Mrs. Inman of Keokuk attempted suicide by taking poison. Her life was saved because of the [illegible] of the dose

The explosion of a kitchen range at the home of F. V. Hopkins at Fort Madison, due to
freezing water pipes, caused great damage, but resulted in the injury
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Lime Springs Sun
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
Thursday, April 13, 1905
The State of Iowa - Occurrences During the Past Week.

-An Afro-American civil league has been organized in Keokuk.

-Samuel Wood Tucker, a pioneer resident of Keokuk, is dead at his home in that city at the age of 85 years.

-Five thousand dollars is bequeathed the the National Spiritualist Association of Washington in the will of Samuel W. Tucker, a wealthy citizen of Keokuk, as filed from probate.
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The Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co. Iowa
Wednesday, P.M., February 2, 1910
Goes Insane Because of Hug
The embrace of a young man, followed by incessant teasing on the part of girl companions, while at work, caused pretty 20-year-old Lily Nygren of Keokuk to become insane. These facts were disclosed in the application to the Lee county insanity board, which ordered Miss Nygren committed to the State institution at Mount Pleasant. She is in a critical condition and the strictest watch is being kept for fear she will attempt suicide. Miss Nygren was employed in a wholesale house. Several weeks ago she was
playfully embraced against her will by a young man working by her side.  Seeing Miss Nygren's resentment Several of her girl companions teased her ntil she quit work and went home, where she cried for several days. Upon returning to work the girls again teased her and she again went home crying.  Melancholia ensued, followed by insanity.
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New York Times
New York, New York
February 17, 1912
P.J. Hess of Chicago has been engaged by the state board of control as manager of the chair factory which is being established at the Fort Madison penitentiary.
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Correctionville News
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
March 26, 1914
IOWA STATE NEWS
Lack of money and a position with which to support his wife and baby was given by Archie Hayes of Fort Madison as a reason for ending his life with a bullet through his brain in his home there. His wife and child were in an adjacent room while he penned the note and pulled the trigger of a small rifle.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper co. Iowa
February 4, 1916
Father and Son in Jail
Keokuk -- Father and son met in a jail cell here when Johnny Page; a lad of 17, was arrested on a charge of malicious mischief and two days later the police took into custody the boy's father, J.W. Page, on a charge of robbery.  Both have confessed to committing the offenses with which they were charged.
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New York Times
New York, New York
February 16, 1916
The wedding of Miss Mildred Anne Joy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde R. Joy of Keokuk, Iowa, and Hugh J. Robertson of Iowa, took place yesterday afternoon at the Hotel St. Regis. The Rev. J.T. Stocking of Upper Montclair, N.J., officiated. Mrs. Ralph B. Joy was the bride's only attendant. Harold Covington Pond was best man. A dinner, followed by dancing, was held after the ceremony. The couple left for California on their honeymoon
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Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
March 30, 1922
IOWA NEWS
A.T. Marshall, Keokuk, attorney, died at his home recently following an acute attack of illness. He was stricken while seated in his office. He was a member of the Keokuk Bar Association and one of the commissioners for the insane for that county.
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Cedar Rapids Republican
Cedar Rapids, Linn co. Iowa
February 9, 1926
Romance is Fatal to Mexican Youth
Ft. Madison, Feb. 9, (U.P.) - Otillie Buiterra, 18, found shot through the heart in the patio of the Mexican village here last night, is believed to have been the victim of a rival in love, and police today are searching for Brigado Erazrra, 20, another Mexican youth. Guiterra's body was found lying in plain sight of the nearest houses of the village. The light of a street lamp revealed the huddled form to a woman in one of those places and she phoned for police in the belief that the man was drunk. The boy died almost
on the spot where four months ago he danced with the girls of the village during a fiesta staged with all the color and abandon of old Mexico. County officials believe that a romance originating at the fiesta between the boy and Rosita Aguilera, dark eyed Mexican girl of the village, caused the tragedy, and Erazrra, other of her suitors is being sought.
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West Point, Lee County, Iowa USA
September 30, 1943
LEO BRANDT IS AWARDED THE PURPLE HEART
On September 30, 1943, A West Point soldier, T/5, Leo L. Brandt, son of Mrs. Barbara (Hohl) Brandt has been awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded in action in the North African campaign.  He was awarded the metal last July. The metal was engraved with the three stars indicating that he had taken part in three battles. He sent the metal home to his mother for safe keeping, she is recieving the same last week. He entered the Army service April 24, 1941 and has  been oversees for the past 18 months.  No further details of the award were available.