Clam shell gatherers were the front line in the booming pearl button business in 1897. Congress that year approved a …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History May. 16, 2014 10:24 am4146d ago
Every summer since the 1870s, the Czech community in Cedar Rapids has supported a native language school. In the beginning, …
History May. 16, 2014 10:03 am4146d ago
President Roosevelt’s New Deal in 1933 included a program called the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, to hire unemployed young …
History Apr. 9, 2014 5:39 pm4182d ago
The Christian Magnus Eagle Brewery and Bottling Works put out 25,000 barrels of 4.5 percent beer when it was in …
History Apr. 10, 2014 12:53 pm4182d ago
Spectators were fascinated by the installation of the $5,000 merry-go-round and Ferris wheel at the new 18-acre Alamo Amusement Park …
History Apr. 10, 2014 11:57 am4182d ago
Springville´s Revolutionary War connection The Honorable Horace Nathan Brown contracted with Krebs Bros. in 1886 to create a monument for …
History Apr. 10, 2014 10:55 am4182d ago
When the Minneapolis-St. Louis Rock Island Rocket No. 190 pulled out of the Rock Island Depot shortly after 10 p.m. …
History Apr. 10, 2014 12:50 pm4182d ago
Rotary in Cedar Rapids officially marks its 100th year in April. It began with 18 men meeting at the Montrose …
History Jan. 5, 2014 1:30 pm4277d ago
The old Davis Hotel, a long, narrow building on the corner of Washington and Gilbert streets in downtown Iowa City, …
History Dec. 29, 2013 2:51 pm4284d ago
Isaac Carroll brought his family from Hamilton, Canada, in 1839 to become one of Eastern Iowa’s pioneers. When the Carrolls …
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News Dec. 22, 2013 6:00 am4291d ago
On the cold, wintry nights surrounding Christmas 1913, passengers on the Milwaukee train pulling into the grand Union Station in …
History Dec. 15, 2013 2:03 pm4298d ago
Each time you see the federal tax deduction on your paycheck, think of tax economist and Cedar Rapids native Beardsley …
History Dec. 8, 2013 2:30 pm4305d ago
Real estate broker James Carleton Young saw huge potential for the land when he bought Sam Johnson’s farm on the …
History Dec. 1, 2013 3:27 pm4312d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Thomas Kelty wasn’t happy that a man and a group of boys from Time Check had decided …
History Oct. 20, 2013 8:00 am4354d ago
When spring arrived in 1912, the Milwaukee Railroad began its filling operation on the Cedar Rapids body of water commonly …