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The Gazette sponsored expedition to North Pole in 1929 to find and interview Santa Claus
Mallory Huntimer and her grandfather were the first people to land at The Eastern Iowa Airport after the runway was redone in 2010. Twelve years later, she landed on the runway again as a professional airline pilot.
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?
The Primary Source Sets — photos, maps, documents, audio recordings and even cartoons — cover more than 65 broad topics about Iowa and its role in the broader sweep of national and world history, including the Underground Railroad, women’s suffrage, the Cold War and the Iowa caucuses.
Gazette’s first female reporter in 1913 hid behind judge’s desk to cover rough trials
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Piece of History: Lois Rayman was discovered while having lunch in L.A.
‘Happy little ear of corn’ has been entertaining children in Cedar Rapids since 1952
The Naval warship named after five Iowa brothers killed together while serving in World War II no longer is sinking after more than $2 million in repairs and cleanup. Now a naval architect will determine if the museum ship must be dry docked for further fixes.
Blind musician graduated from Coe, taught music and literature, earned Ph.D. at Iowa
Cedar Rapids added retired military equipment to parks in 1960s
2 Cedar Rapids women took stands for policy changes
1907 flight so excited onlookers that phone lines jammed and the switchboard’s main fuses blew out.
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.”
