Holiday parades marched along Cedar Rapids streets as early as 1916, when a Mother Goose parade sponsored by Killian’s department …
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Can anyone prove that the famous Rudolph with the bright, shiny red nose has ever been in Iowa? Probably not. …
How did renowned novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wind up in Iowa City? Credit goes to his friend, George Starbuck, who …
Correction: Nile Kinnick was killed in June 1943 when his plane crashed off the coast of Venezuela. A previous version …
(Second of two parts) Verne Marshall, managing editor of The Evening Gazette and Republican, was called to testify in March …
Ponzi schemes came into vogue in the 1920s, with a Cedar Rapids cigar store owner in the middle of a …
When it comes to making waves in a single sport, it’s hard to top Beulah Gundling. The Cedar Rapids native …
For decades, the ghost story involving a young Coe College student has resurfaced around Halloween. Helen Roberts died Oct. 19, …
John H. Taft came to Cedar Rapids in 1899 from Sidney, Ohio, and would build a downtown building that evolved …
Craft brewers and microbreweries have been trending for the past decade, but small breweries have been around for more than …
Pope John Paul II visited Iowa 40 years ago – on Oct. 4, 1979 – in what remains the largest …
The story of Walter and Mahala Dutton Douglas and their voyage aboard the ill-fated Titanic is well-documented. Walter, who was …
Support from Marion residents was key to bringing the first train to Marion from Anamosa in the fall of 1864, …
The Gazette’s archives don’t go back far enough to date the actual beginning of Cedar Rapids’ Union Park on Prairie …
For the first quarter century of the Iowa State Fair’s history, it graced nine Eastern Iowa cities before it found …
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