"Iowa and Minnesota play for a pig, a statuette rendition of the actual brother of a porcine star of a Will Rogers mov…"

"IOWA: Her affections like the rivers of her borders, flow to an unseparable union."

"In all that is Good, Iowa affords the best."

"A beautiful summer day in Iowa leaves no room for worry."

"Why, the justices [of Iowa] asked in conclusion, do statutes and civil law protect the secret of the confession? This…"

"Anastasia [Davis], who says she could not find a qualified nurse to care for her son previously, told the Star that s…"

"Some people think that St. Louis is in the South. It's not, it's in the Midwest, but Missouri was a slave state. The …"

"The issue of slavery was soon to trouble the relations of the North and South. In 1819 a Bill was tabled in Congress …"

"Missouri is called "The Show-Me State," because that was the winner of the Dumbest State Nickname Contest, narrowly e…"

"Between 1930 and 1940 the population of Missouri Nearly tripled. Epidemics broke out: Scarlet fever, Meningitis, Meas…"