The Gazette hired Cyrus Fosmire to produce cartoons and drawings for publication with Gazette stories. His first day on the job, and the first day his name was included in the masthead as “Illustrator,” was Jan. 1, 1896, when he was 20 years old.
Dennis Chaffee’s two toddlers were staying with him when he was shot and killed in his home in July 1983.
Marion is the birthplace of the man responsible for getting "The Big Book" published, the book that details the recovery process used by Alcoholics Anonymous.
Effort to build flood protection along the Cedar led to legal fight in early 1900s
TIME MACHINE: An Iowa governor investigated and thought they were innocent in murder case, pardoning them in 1915.
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Rise Stevens brought her voice and elegance to the state in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s
TIME MACHINE: The idea for piggybacking – hauling semitruck trailers on flatbed train cars – might have been spawned in the late 1800s with the circus trains that crisscrossed the country. Some of the flatbed cars on those trains carried circus vehicles “piggyback” style.
LaVelda and LaVona Rowe started twin club at the University of Iowa and were a hit in Chicago and on TV shows,
Author Peter D. Looney described the pool at the city’s first YMCA, at First Avenue and First Street: “The marble swimming pool was beautiful, but the water temperature was notoriously frigid due to its source -- the Cedar River flowing past its back door.”
Norwegian King Olav and his family developed a soft spot for Decorah, and it was reciprocated in repeated visits by the royal family.
Residents were determined, despite the odds, to have a crossing over Coralville Lake
Quad Cities’ plant opened 2 years before Duane Arnold, narrowly avoided shutdown in 2018
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