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March 29, 1905 – Edmund Booth – the deaf-and-blind-in-one-eye newspaper editor who helped start Iowa’s first School for the Deaf dies at age 94 – the oldest newspaper editor in America!
In 1854, with the help of the newspaper editor Edmund Booth, William E. Ijams comes to Iowa City to open Iowa’s first School for the Deaf. The following year, the State of Iowa adds on-going financial support and over the next twelve years, attendance triples in size: growing from twenty-one students to seventy-five.
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March 28, 1925 – The Des Moines Register political cartoonist for 30 years (1953-1983) – Frank Miller – is born in Kansas City.
In 1953, The Des Moines Register invited a young artist from Kansas City to follow in the illustrious footsteps of the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, Jay “Ding” Darling. Over the next 30 years (1953-1983) Frank Miller did just that, creating 10,000 panels for the front page of The Register while endearing himself to Iowans all across the state.
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