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Out of the Past

Ski-Masked bandit hits Wesley Bank

175 Years Ago

In the ten years of the fifties Iowa had an unusual number of census enumerations.  There were federal counts of 1850 and 1860, and between them were state counts in 1851, ‘52, ‘54, ‘56, and ‘59. It is therefore easy to measure in cold figures the exact proportions of the Iowa movement. Beginning with 192,214 people in 1850.

 

150 Years Ago

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