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They came for a Herbert Hoover birthday event in 1965, the year after Hoover, the only president born in Iowa, died
A gun battle in the Cedar Rapids Carnegie library ends in death for an officer.
A paved promenade allowed easy access to 63 stalls at the produce market, at B Avenue and First Street NW.
But some Iowa women continued drinking, and making, alcohol during the 1920s
On Dec. 19, 1979, 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death in the parking lot of Westdale Mall. For nearly 40 years, Cedar Rapids police searched for her killer. DNA evidence provided the breakthrough needed to close the case.
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The primitive state park in Fayette County, dating from the 1930s, offers two rippling trout streams and a beautiful, quiet place to reconnect with nature.
The key to taller corn — and better yields — is planting early and controlling weeds, most farmers say.
Nadine Kirkland earned her pilot’s license at age 19 in 1940.
Photos and documentation of people at area gay events before the 1970s are fairly rare, so much of what we know comes from an amalgamation of diaries, oral histories, stories passed down and clues left behind.
The 54-year-old Cedar Rapids school, at 6225 First Ave. SW, has structural problems and will be replaced with West Willow Elementary this fall.
Post was known for its drum and bugle corps, boxing matches during 1930s
