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Bryson was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Bill Bryson Sr., a sports journalist who worked for 50 years at The Des Moines Register, and Agnes Mary (née McGuire), the home furnishings editor at the same newspaper. [9] [10] His mother was of Irish descent. [11]
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The first newspaper in Des Moines was the Iowa Star. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon River. [3] In 1854, The Star became the Iowa Statesman which was also a Democratic paper. In 1857, The Statesman became the Iowa State Journal, which published three times per ...
Harps Food Stores was founded by Harvard and Floy Harp in 1930. [5] In 2001, Harps became employee-owned after buying company shares from the Harp family. The stores are supplied by Kansas City, Kansas-based Associated Wholesale Grocers. [6] The company is valued around $550 million, and employed 5,300 people as of 2020. [7]
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
A wife found the body of her husband buried in 3 feet of snow after he was killed in an avalanche in Colorado on Tuesday, Jan. 7, an official Colorado Avalanche Information Center report stated
Burials at Woodland Cemetery (Des Moines, Iowa) (29 P) This page was last edited on 27 June 2024, at 12:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...