Marion Reed grew up on his family’s poultry hatchery on 42nd Street NE. He married Janet Smith in 1951 while …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
News May. 18, 2015 7:00 am3813d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – George M. Olmsted had been ill, but seemed to be improving when in December 1896 he moved …
News May. 11, 2015 7:00 am3820d ago
Editor’s Note: First of three parts) CEDAR RAPIDS — In its accounts of the 1915 robbery of the Cedar Rapids …
News May. 4, 2015 7:00 am3827d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A notice appeared in The Evening Gazette on Sept. 4, 1919: ‘The National Products company is the …
News Apr. 27, 2015 7:00 am3834d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – In April 1908, Alice M. Faulkes, widow of Gazette owner and editor Fred W. Faulkes, and Malcolm …
News Apr. 6, 2015 7:00 am3855d ago
The Rev. William Ashley ‘Billy’ Sunday, a famous evangelist, was born in Ames in 1862. He never knew his father, …
News Mar. 30, 2015 7:00 am3862d ago
Finley P. Dunne, a Chicago writer transplanted to New York, wrote in the American Magazine in 1909, ‘I doubt if …
News Mar. 23, 2015 7:00 am3869d ago
A new federal building opened in March 1933 on First Street SE in Cedar Rapids. The post office occupied the …
News Mar. 16, 2015 7:00 am3876d ago
On a summer day in 1943, on the heights of Arlington Cemetery overlooking Washington, D.C., Col. Charles Burton Robbins was …
News Mar. 8, 2015 11:00 am3884d ago
When Dotty Ireland wrote her first prep sports story for The Gazette in 1943, she already had made an impression …
News Mar. 2, 2015 6:00 am3890d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A fairground with a horse racetrack and a baseball park, near the intersection of Second Avenue and …
News Feb. 23, 2015 6:00 am3897d ago
STONE CITY – The house on the hill near Stone City served for two summers in 1932 and 1933 as …
History Feb. 16, 2015 7:00 am3904d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Although a few art clubs were meeting in Cedar Rapids as early as the mid-1800s, 1905 to …
News Feb. 9, 2015 6:00 am3911d ago
BELLE PLAINE – Belle Plaine dignitaries gathered at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street on May 21, 1955, …
News Feb. 2, 2015 6:00 am3918d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A search through a box in The Gazette’s archives revealed a packet of old negatives labeled simply, …

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