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The Aurelia Star was the local weekly newspaper of Aurelia and Alta in Iowa. It was first published in March 1881 as the Aurelia Sentinel and had changed ownership at least 11 times in its history. It ceased on Feb. 1, 2025.
Aurelia was founded in 1873 as a stop along the Illinois Central Railroad branch connecting Sioux City, Iowa, to Chicago, Illinois. This was the only railroad connecting the two Midwestern hubs and so gave birth to many railroad towns. Aurelia was named for the youngest daughter of the owner of the railroad, John Insley Blair, who died in 1866. [3]
Advantage Archives LLC is a digital archiving service based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Established in 2018, [ 1 ] it digitizes microform , newspapers, books and documents. [ 2 ] The results are stored in a community history archive, which is freely accessible.
1856 Thomas Sypherd and A.J. Stephens begin publishing a second newspaper, the Iowa Citizen.John Teesdale takes control of it in 1857, the year Fort Des Moines becomes the Iowa capital and drops ...
List of newspapers in the United States by circulation; List of newspapers serving cities over 100,000 in the United States; Foreign language. List of French-language newspapers published in the United States; List of German-language newspapers published in the United States; List of Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States ...
The sweet smile of an elderly Kathryn Bartosky mixing donuts in her kitchen greets you on page 131 of Tom Schulein’s just-released book covering 185 years of Iowa City history.
Linn Fuhrman (November 14, 1944 – January 23, 1994) was an American politician who served in the Iowa Senate from the 5th district from 1987 to 1994. [ 1 ] He died on January 23, 1994, in Aurelia, Iowa at age 49.
The federal government established Iowa as a territory in 1838, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.Previously, the state wasn’t a distinct place and existed as part of the Louisiana Territory ...