The Rev. William Ashley ‘Billy’ Sunday, a famous evangelist, was born in Ames in 1862. He never knew his father, …
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Finley P. Dunne, a Chicago writer transplanted to New York, wrote in the American Magazine in 1909, ‘I doubt if …
A new federal building opened in March 1933 on First Street SE in Cedar Rapids. The post office occupied the …
On a summer day in 1943, on the heights of Arlington Cemetery overlooking Washington, D.C., Col. Charles Burton Robbins was …
When Dotty Ireland wrote her first prep sports story for The Gazette in 1943, she already had made an impression …
CEDAR RAPIDS – A fairground with a horse racetrack and a baseball park, near the intersection of Second Avenue and …
STONE CITY – The house on the hill near Stone City served for two summers in 1932 and 1933 as …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Although a few art clubs were meeting in Cedar Rapids as early as the mid-1800s, 1905 to …
BELLE PLAINE – Belle Plaine dignitaries gathered at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Eighth Street on May 21, 1955, …
CEDAR RAPIDS – A search through a box in The Gazette’s archives revealed a packet of old negatives labeled simply, …
IOWA CITY – Iowa had its own controversial cartoonist for a short time in the 1980s. Berkeley ‘Berke” Breathed started …
CEDAR RAPIDS – There was a holiday party and housewarming Dec. 29, 1902, at Mr. and Mrs. Upton C. Blake’s …
MINNEAPOLIS – Forbes lists Cargill, Inc., of Minnesota as the largest private company in the United States. It was valued …
MARION – ‘Marion society was all agog before the concert given by the Cherry Concert Company at the opera house” …
The state of Iowa was only five years old in 1851 when state legislators recruited William Lee, a book binder …
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