CEDAR RAPIDS – Abigail and Dr. James Van Allen and his wife, Abigail, met ‘by accident” when she backed into …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History Oct. 19, 2014 1:00 am4046d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964, at the age …
History Oct. 12, 2014 1:00 am4053d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – John T. Carmody was an experienced machinist when he arrived in Cedar Rapids from Lima, Ohio, in …
History Oct. 5, 2014 1:00 am4060d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A group of businessmen formed the West Side Civic Club in May 1959 as a way to …
History Sep. 28, 2014 1:00 am4067d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The United Nations’ 10th anniversary was cause for celebration in 1955. Cedar Rapids Mayor Milo Sedlacek appointed …
News Sep. 21, 2014 1:00 am4074d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — In the middle of May 1910, a train pulled into Cedar Rapids’s Union Station on Fourth Avenue …
News Sep. 14, 2014 1:00 am4081d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The interurban circus grounds on Sixth Street West in Cedar Rapids were used on a weekly basis …
History Sep. 7, 2014 1:00 am4088d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – ‘Just as little boys sometimes dream about becoming the next Pete Rose or O.J. Simpson, here in …
History Aug. 31, 2014 1:00 am4095d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — It began with a joke. When asked what souvenir a friend could send to him from Florida, …
Living Aug. 24, 2014 1:00 am4102d ago
Was it haunted or not? The house, whose address was ‘End of Skip Level Road,’ stood three miles west of …
History Jul. 20, 2014 12:58 pm4137d ago
Iowa Code 523I.102 – ‘Pioneer cemetery” means a cemetery where there were twelve or fewer burials in the preceding fifty …
History Jul. 6, 2014 1:00 am4151d ago
The United States’ diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and China were in tatters, the Soviet Union had tested its …
History Jun. 29, 2014 8:25 am4158d ago
Even as the million-dollar Veterans Memorial Building was rising from the municipal island in the middle of the Cedar River, …
History Jun. 22, 2014 9:11 am4165d ago
Our deep red car was an unrecognizable gray. Clouds of dust rose each time we opened or closed a door. …
History Jun. 20, 2014 5:59 pm4166d ago
Curiosity led me to William H. Lightner. Along E Avenue NW, in the 1700 block, are two stone pillars mounted …

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