CEDAR RAPIDS — It began with a joke. When asked what souvenir a friend could send to him from Florida, …
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Was it haunted or not? The house, whose address was ‘End of Skip Level Road,’ stood three miles west of …
Iowa Code 523I.102 – ‘Pioneer cemetery” means a cemetery where there were twelve or fewer burials in the preceding fifty …
The United States’ diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and China were in tatters, the Soviet Union had tested its …
Even as the million-dollar Veterans Memorial Building was rising from the municipal island in the middle of the Cedar River, …
Our deep red car was an unrecognizable gray. Clouds of dust rose each time we opened or closed a door. …
Curiosity led me to William H. Lightner. Along E Avenue NW, in the 1700 block, are two stone pillars mounted …
On Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and his small band of abolitionists seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. …
The Cedar Rapids School Board faced a problem finding enough classrooms for a growing student population in 1902. A committee …
The weather was fair and the trip to make the first air delivery of The Gazette was set. Spread over …
In 1911, the American Automobile Association, organized in 1902, urged national legislation for a transcontinental highway. One of AAA’s members …
A river man for 38 years, Charles L. Petersen worked for the famous Diamond Jo Line out of Dubuque from …
The El Kahir Shrine building committee took the first step to build a new temple in 1926 when Chairman James …
Clam shell gatherers were the front line in the booming pearl button business in 1897. Congress that year approved a …
Every summer since the 1870s, the Czech community in Cedar Rapids has supported a native language school. In the beginning, …
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