The Des Moines Register: how a newspaper became part of the city’s memory system

The Des Moines Register’s story begins before the paper carried that name. Des Moines Public Library’s timeline says that in 1849 the Iowa Star, now known as the Des Moines Register, became Des Moines’ first newspaper and the oldest continuous business in Polk County. That alone makes the paper part

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