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‘Gazzy,’ born in 1941, was named for The Gazette
Orchestra has had five directors in past 100 years
The Cedar Rapids stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is launching the Rescuing Our Roots project to photograph and document 20,000 Iowa headstones starting Sept. 10 and finishing Memorial Day 2023.
Order of Railway Conductors operated downtown for almost a century, from 1878 to 1968
Longtime educator said hearing a Wagner concert on the radio set his life’s course
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Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway.
TIME MACHINE: Kansan preached Prohibition to thousands
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.
Rise Stevens brought her voice and elegance to the state in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s
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