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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
First edition published Jan. 10, 1883
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
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HISTORY HAPPENINGS: Born in 1907, she grew up in Cedar Rapids, where her father managed Quaker Oats.
Woman and Home was printed from 1888 to 1947 in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish.
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
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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