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The Hawk Eye's circulation area includes Des Moines, Lee, Henry, Louisa and Van Buren counties in southeast Iowa, and Henderson and Hancock counties in west-central Illinois. County seats in those counties are Burlington, Fort Madison/Keokuk, Mount Pleasant, Wapello, Keosauqua, Oquawka and Carthage, respectively.
Burlington, Iowa is served by the following local media outlets: Newspaper. The Burlington Beacon is a community-focused local newspaper covering Des Moines County and southeast Iowa. The Hawk Eye is a morning newspaper published six days a week. [34] The paper was established in 1837 and is Iowa's oldest newspaper.
The Hawk Eye – Burlington; Iowa City Press-Citizen – Iowa City; Keokuk Daily Gate City – Keokuk; Le Mars Daily Sentinel – Le Mars; Marshalltown Times Republican – Marshalltown; The Messenger – Fort Dodge; Southeast Iowa Union – Mount Pleasant (was formerly the Fairfield Daily Ledger, Mount Pleasant News and the Washington Evening ...
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Robert Jones Burdette (July 30, 1844 – November 19, 1914) was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in The Hawk Eye newspaper in Burlington, Iowa. Mary G. Burdette was his sister.
In 1850 he was elected to represent Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House. While he was officially considered a Democrat, a hostile editor of the first Burlington newspaper (James G. Edwards of the "Hawk-Eye") labelled him a "Locofoco," [1] a slang term for a radical faction of the Party.