January is marked by post-holiday ennui, but January 1923 was livened up a bit in Cedar Rapids by the arrival …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History Apr. 2, 2017 12:00 pm3094d ago
James Lorenzo ‘Ren’ Bever Jr. was born in 1874 in the family home at Iowa Avenue and Madison Street in …
News Mar. 27, 2017 6:00 am3100d ago
Carl Sandburg had already published two volumes of poetry — ‘Chicago Poems’ in 1916 and ‘Cornhuskers’ in 1918 — when …
News Mar. 20, 2017 6:00 am3107d ago
Verna and Walter Davidson opened the Sewing Machine Exchange at 325 First St. SW in 1920. They offered new and …
History Mar. 13, 2017 8:00 am3114d ago
‘GE College Bowl” was a popular TV game show that aired Sunday afternoons from 1958 to 1970 on CBS and …
News Mar. 9, 2017 11:26 am3118d ago
While President Dwight Eisenhower was attending talks in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955 with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Communist …
History Sep. 15, 2025 1:41 pm5d ago
Less than 800 automobiles were registered in Iowa in 1905. Ten years later, that number was more than 147,000. With …
History Feb. 20, 2017 9:00 am3135d ago
William W. Walker arrived in Cedar Rapids in 1855 from New York City. He and his wife, Mary Hitchcock Walker, …
News Feb. 13, 2017 5:00 am3142d ago
In 1917, a Valentine’s Day ball was scheduled on Feb. 14 as the last big social event before the Lenten …
News Feb. 6, 2017 9:00 am3149d ago
Grace Episcopal Church, commonly called Grace Church, was organized in 1850. The church’s first vestry officers were William Greene, N.B. …
News Jan. 30, 2017 6:00 am3156d ago
Henry Carter, a sawmill operator, was one of the earliest settlers in the northeast Iowa town of Hopkinton in Delaware …
News Jan. 23, 2017 5:00 am3163d ago
Among The Gazette’s archives are hundreds of negatives from the 1940s-60s, some marked with a minimal amount of information, but …
History Jan. 15, 2017 1:00 am3171d ago
References to a Stony Point schoolhouse stretch back to 1871 in The Gazette’s archives, when ‘Prof. Kephart,” a Republican candidate …
News Jan. 9, 2017 5:00 am3177d ago
As the Cedar Rapids Public Library celebrates its 120th year, I could think of no other person who touched more …
News Jan. 2, 2017 5:00 am3184d ago
Although efforts to acquire land for a new westside park had been going on for more than a decade, Parks …