Diane Fannon-Langton

Stories of heartbreak and survival filled The Gazette for days after giant ocean liner sank April 15, 1912

Bell from I.C. First Presbyterian was hidden, then spirited away to Utah

He visited Burlington, Council Bluffs before becoming nation’s 16th president

Big metal boxes for returns were a new thing

Iowa’s largest five-and-dime store was in C.R. before closing after Christmas 1986.

Two women laid the foundation for an ‘amazing space’ in Cedar Rapids

From a hand-fed press to a 386-ton behemoth, the machines put words on paper for 140 years.

Sir Henry ‘Harry’ Lauder, a former coal miner, appeared Dec. 27, 1922

Arctic explorers tell Gazette readers what they saw in Santa’s castle

The Gazette sponsored expedition to North Pole in 1929 to find and interview Santa Claus

Anna Myrle Sizer of Mount Vernon was last seen on a train in Marion in 1926. Could she have been woman found wandering an Illinois highway?

‘Happy little ear of corn’ has been entertaining children in Cedar Rapids since 1952

Blind musician graduated from Coe, taught music and literature, earned Ph.D. at Iowa

Cedar Rapids added retired military equipment to parks in 1960s

City Hall moved around the downtown six times before moving to May’s Island, including a few years in an old hotel that one council member described as an “old shell. … It makes my flesh creep to think of it.”