When New York economist Ralph Borosodi teased his wife in 1934 about the freshly canned tomatoes from her garden, she …
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On Saturday afternoon, May 2, 1953, Walter M. Mayer of Santa Fe, N.M., stopped in Greencastle, Mo., to return a …
After six weeks in steerage and a bout of measles, Carl Sjorstrand arrived in the United States from Sweden in …
A New Year’s Day item in the 1926 Gazette announced the formation of the ‘newest denomination of Cedar Rapids churches,” …
At the turn of the 20th century, small, independent bakeries dotted Cedar Rapids. One stood on what is now the …
Scientists from Iowa State College in Ames appeared before the Cedar Rapids City Council in June 1955 with a dire …
Famed illustrator Norman Rockwell visited Cedar Rapids in June 1944, looking for inspiration on how he could portray Americans voting. …
Iowa City industrialist Chalmer D. Close built a showplace home on the corner of Gilbert and Bowery streets in 1874. …
Six veterans from Iowa’s Company D, 1st Iowa Infantry, were still alive and able to attend the 50th anniversary of …
On the eve of city elections, let’s look back at how Cedar Rapids has been governed in the past century-and-a-half. …
‘Hundreds of Cedar Rapids Elks Club members were left to forage for their lunch and noontime nap in new pastures …
What was once an open field – out beyond Cedar Rapids’ first drive-in theater on the outskirts of southwest Cedar …
Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett were an institution in Cedar Rapids, where they taught dance to thousands of students for …
With white supremacist rallies in the news and the recent picture of five teens in Creston wearing white hoods in …
George A. Ohler manufactured furniture – and caskets – at a factory at Washington and Benton streets on the east …
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