Articles Tagged: Time Machine

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 …

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Blair House in Washington, D.C., was built in 1824 as a private home. The Blair House …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids Mayor John M. Redmond visited the new iron fields in Allamakee County, a few miles …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The first parking meter, the Magee-Hale Park-O-Meter No. 1 was installed in Oklahoma City on July 16, …

BENTON COUNTY — The historic bridge at Shellsburg’s front door is showing its age. The balustrades on the approaches are …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The Cedar Rapids Playground Drum and Bugle Corps was the first of a series of junior corps …