Articles Tagged: Time Machine

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 …

CEDAR RAPIDS – New Pioneer Co-op has opened its organic food store at 3338 Center Point Rd. NE in Cedar …

(Second of two stories) CEDAR RAPIDS – Jury selection for the murder trial of Dr. Robert C. Rutledge of St. …

(First of two parts. Part 2: ‘The trial” next Sunday) CEDAR RAPIDS – Margaret Bell was cleaning Room 729 at …

LINN COUNTY – The McKean brothers were born in Burlington, Bradford County, Pa. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson McKean came …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids’ union depot was a small, unattractive building that hardly suited a growing city. In 1891, …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The Tigers of Washington High School in Cedar Rapids had built a strong reputation as a good …

CEDAR RAPIDS – According to a May 19, 1920 Gazette story, ‘Battery E of the 126th Field Artillery was regarded …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Abigail and Dr. James Van Allen and his wife, Abigail, met ‘by accident” when she backed into …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964, at the age …

CEDAR RAPIDS – John T. Carmody was an experienced machinist when he arrived in Cedar Rapids from Lima, Ohio, in …