Forty-five years ago this week, the worst April blizzard in Iowa history paralyzed the state. On Sunday, April 8, 1973, …
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Easter, a Christian holiday celebrated around the world, and April Fools’ Day, an event observed by pranksters everywhere, rarely fall …
‘LOCAL BOY PICKS UP ARCTIC MESSAGE,” screamed The Gazette’s banner headline on Aug. 3, 1925. The local boy was 15-year-old …
The likely builder of the 16-foot-square basswood cabin that once sat high on a hill above the Cedar River was …
Downtown Cedar Rapids in 1959 was a busy place, with shoppers and business people on the street, especially during the …
Although world war was the main story of 1918, newspaper pages that fall were replete with stories about people dying …
Three men from St. Louis – August C. Reps, Herman N. Craemer and Adolph H. Jungk – turned their eyes …
When New York economist Ralph Borosodi teased his wife in 1934 about the freshly canned tomatoes from her garden, she …
On Saturday afternoon, May 2, 1953, Walter M. Mayer of Santa Fe, N.M., stopped in Greencastle, Mo., to return a …
After six weeks in steerage and a bout of measles, Carl Sjorstrand arrived in the United States from Sweden in …
A New Year’s Day item in the 1926 Gazette announced the formation of the ‘newest denomination of Cedar Rapids churches,” …
At the turn of the 20th century, small, independent bakeries dotted Cedar Rapids. One stood on what is now the …
Scientists from Iowa State College in Ames appeared before the Cedar Rapids City Council in June 1955 with a dire …
Famed illustrator Norman Rockwell visited Cedar Rapids in June 1944, looking for inspiration on how he could portray Americans voting. …
Iowa City industrialist Chalmer D. Close built a showplace home on the corner of Gilbert and Bowery streets in 1874. …
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