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became Iowa's largest and most influential newspaper, eventually adopting the slogan "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon." Newspapers were distributed to all four corners of the state by train and later by truck as Iowa's highway system was improving.
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in 1927, served as the evening paper for the Des Moines area until it ended publication on September 25, 1982.) Under the ownership of the Cowles family, the
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Before his death he established the Gardner Cowles Foundation to support Iowa colleges and charities; one of his gifts was a library building at
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minister and widower who had three prior children; his mother was Maria Elizabeth LaMonte. Gardner had a full brother named
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newspaper. Becoming a businessman, he was a stockholder and officer in ten area Iowa banks and also a large-scale farmer.
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Cowles father was a descendant of Hannah Bushoup (c. 1613–1683) of
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Republican Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives
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in 1915. Moving to Des Moines, Cowles also acquired the
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American banker, publisher, and politician (1861–1946)
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20th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
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William Fletcher Cowles and Maria Elizabeth LaMonte
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Oskaloosa, Iowa
Des Moines
Iowa
Penn College
Grinnell College
Wesleyan College
The Des Moines Register
Republican
John Cowles Sr.
Gardner "Mike" Cowles Jr.
The Des Moines Register
Des Moines Tribune
Hartford, Connecticut
Gloucestershire
England
Methodist
LaMonte
Algona, Iowa
Republican
Iowa House of Representatives
Kossuth County
Des Moines
The Des Moines Register
Des Moines Tribune
1916 Republican National Convention
Herbert Hoover
Drake University
Russell
John Cowles Sr.

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