Diane Fannon-Langton

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.”

Mary Emily Wright died at age 6 on Aug. 19, 1854, in her parents’ log cabin along the road that would became Highway 6/151 in Iowa County. She was buried in the cemetery across the road from her home. Her grave, surrounded by a white fence in the railroad right of way, is maintained to this day.

Station had been surrounded by Ralston Creek flash flood

Plant operated on Cedar River from 1917 to 1970s Cedar Rapids Electric Light and Power began offering electricity in Eastern …

‘Gazzy,’ born in 1941, was named for The Gazette

Orchestra has had five directors in past 100 years

Order of Railway Conductors operated downtown for almost a century, from 1878 to 1968