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Updated on June 01, 2008
Contributed News Clippings

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Because of copyright laws - only materials dated before 1923 will be accepted.
All articles must be submitted with the newspaper name and date of publication.
Please no obituaries - those should be contributed to the Obituaries Query Boards

-A girl named Calista Hemphill, of Center Point, Linn county, aged 16 years, was fatally burned last Thursday by the explosion of a kerosene oil can while attempting to build a fire. She died on the following evening in great agony.
Contributed by: Becke Dawson

-A birth occurred in the county jail at Cedar Rapids a few days ago. Mother and child are both doing well. Lena Stanton, who was sent up for horse stealing, was the mother.
Contributed by: Becke Dawson

1919 Fire at the Douglass Starch Works in Cedar Rapids reported in the New York Times.
Contributed by: Lori Frank-Alstott

1919 Fire at the Douglass Starch Works in Cedar Rapids reported in the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette and Linn County History.
Contributed by: Lori Frank-Alstott

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