Christmas in 1973 in Eastern Iowa was much less twinkly than usual. The reason for that could be traced to …
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Robert Lucas had already served two terms as governor of Ohio in 1838 when President Martin Van Buren appointed him …
LOUISA COUNTY – Thirteen deeply tanned, grimy students from Dr. R.J. Ruppe’s University of Iowa archaeology class spent the summer …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Eastern Iowa was home to a pair of brothers in the late 19th century who didn’t seem …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Frank Smid’s new theater opened in 1914 with something few theaters ever had. Two fresco artists from …
CEDAR RAPIDS – The first Cedar Rapids carnival opened Oct. 13, 1897. It was the brainchild of Napoleon F. Franchere. …
CEDAR RAPIDS – In the 1880s, the Big Springs School, a one-room school house, stood about four miles north of …
I got it wrong. An email from an observant reader, Galen Wenger, commented on the Oct. 18 Time Machine on …
ELKADER – Elkader nurse Louise Liers had driven her 1930 Model A more than 198,000 miles in 1949. The 60-year-old …
CEDAR RAPIDS – A letter from Secretary of the Treasury William Windom, published in The Evening Gazette on Oct. 18, …
CEDAR RAPIDS – John Vardy, born in Virginia in 1800, came to Iowa in 1841 after spending five years in …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Edward Sheftic, who was born Jan. 31, 1877 in the first house north of the NorthWestern railroad …
‘I am determined never again to visit that unloved town,” Carl Van Vechten once said of his hometown of Cedar …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Judge George Greene was one of Cedar Rapids’ founders, an Iowa legislator and Iowa Supreme Court justice …
CEDAR RAPIDS — The four-story Washington High School opened in August 1891, replacing its much smaller predecessor. It stood where …
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