‘Pageantry, music, color and beauty will blend into a harmonious backdrop for the formal launching of the new municipal swimming …
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‘Pageantry, music, color and beauty will blend into a harmonious backdrop for the formal launching of the new municipal swimming …
One of the premier arts venues in Marion started its 123-year-old life as a hardware store. It all started when …
The first commercial passenger airline service in Cedar Rapids began July 17, 1936. Along with the celebration of the service …
Maurice S. Sheehy – friend of presidents and football coaches, beloved parish priest and Vatican insider, best-selling author and world …
From 1950 to 1952, as the United States ramped up military spending for the Korean War and President Harry Truman …
When Army Col. George Frederick Ney Dailey was assigned to the University of Iowa’s Department of Military Science and Tactics …
In 1953, there were two places in the country where wooden bowling pins could be reconditioned and repaired. One was …
January is marked by post-holiday ennui, but January 1923 was livened up a bit in Cedar Rapids by the arrival …
James Lorenzo ‘Ren’ Bever Jr. was born in 1874 in the family home at Iowa Avenue and Madison Street in …
Carl Sandburg had already published two volumes of poetry — ‘Chicago Poems’ in 1916 and ‘Cornhuskers’ in 1918 — when …
Verna and Walter Davidson opened the Sewing Machine Exchange at 325 First St. SW in 1920. They offered new and …
‘GE College Bowl” was a popular TV game show that aired Sunday afternoons from 1958 to 1970 on CBS and …
While President Dwight Eisenhower was attending talks in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955 with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Communist …
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