Million Dollar Iowa Newspaper Group Leads With Telephone News
The Iowa Evening Press creates a state wide news service by telephone linking eleven leading Iowa dailies to the Waterloo Evening Courier. Frank E. Lyman Jr. touts the system as a breakthrough in rapid news dissemination across the state. The map shows Iowa coverage and the Courier's role as a pioneer in linotype and press innovation.
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Telephonic News Gathers Iowa Statewide Attention
An Iowa Evening Press feature profiles the first coordinated telephonic news gathering system in Iowa. Editors from Des Moines to Dubuque share latest items via rotating circuits, enabling same day publication and strengthening state papers like the Waterloo Evening Courier as a front line state newspaper.
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Recollections of Pioneer Days by Edwin Mesick
A memoir recounts the great 1858 prairie fire near York state and Black Hawk county. The author recalls watching a blazing inferno devour farmland, a year of heavy rains, ruined wheat, and memorable school days in Waterloo amid floods and floods of remembrances.
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Old York State
Black Hawk County
Elk‘s Run
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