By Casey Jarmes | The News-Review One Year: 1890 It was March 31, 1890. Henry Case was sitting at the North English restaurant owned by
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Historical Viewpoint: Bob Molkenthin and the Russian Front
By Casey Jarmes | The News-Review Last week, I covered German mechanic Bob Molkenthin’s experiences in the Western Front of WWI, ending with the German
Historical Viewpoint: By Casey Jarmes | The News-Review Robert Molkenthin and Zeppelins
By Casey Jarmes Often in this column, I have written about military history; this is not done out of an excess of nationalism, but rather
Historical Viewpoint: Emory J. Pike and the Medal of Honor
By Casey Jarmes The Medal of Honor is the most distinguished decoration awarded to members of the United States Military, awarded to service members who
Historical Viewpoint: Helen Corrick and the Keswick Kittens
By Casey Jarmes In 1945, the Keswick school board approved re-establishing the Keswick Girls Six on Six Basketball Team. The team had a rough start.
The Historical Viewpoint: The Armstrong Brothers and Pearl Harbor
By Casey Jarmes John Vincent Armstrong considered himself to be one of the happiest sailors in the U.S. Navy. He’d grown up in What Cheer,
Historical Viewpoint: Achilles Rogers and the Revolutionary War
By Casey Jarmes I’m just going to cut to the chase. There is an American Revolutionary War soldier buried in Keokuk County. This fact surprised
Historical Viewpoint: One Year: 1942
By Casey Jarmes | The News-Review I’m going back through the archives again, this time reading the 1942 issues of The Sigourney Review. Unsurprisingly, the
Historical Viewpoint: Floyd Bair and Airplane Crashes
By Casey Jarmes I’ve received a lot of excellent help in finding information for this column from the Keokuk County Historical Society in Sigourney. They
What Cheer and Backdrafts
By Casey Jarmes “Twice before in her history has What Cheer awakened in chill gray dawn to see blackened smoking ruins, homes and business buildings
