JOHNSON COUNTY – Josef Coufal, a native of Bohemia, arrived in a river bottom area of the Iowa River in …
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JOHNSON COUNTY – The stately Johnson County Courthouse will reach its 115th anniversary this year, but it wasn’t the county’s …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Calvin Bard of Benton Harbor, Mich., was a veteran of the motion picture business. He had a …
CEDAR RAPIDS – There is now a parking lot at 225 First St. SE in Cedar Rapids, the first home …
Frank Kouba had lived in Iowa City for about five years when he decided in 1872 to move north to …
Christmas in 1973 in Eastern Iowa was much less twinkly than usual. The reason for that could be traced to …
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, …
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