TIME MACHINE: Two rugs have covered the floor of the music room at the historic Iowa mansion in Clermont. One came directly from France, the other from the Maytag mansion in Newton.
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Hours of practice lead dedicated scholars to championships
Two couples owned and operated the famed supper club for more than 40 years. It was destroyed in a fire on Dec. 4, 2000.
Time Machine: University of Iowa football player, wrestler, attended the first practice drill for the Hawkeyes every fall for 65 years, starting in 1912.
Family jewelers have kept 1918 clock running for more than a century.
Time Machine: In 1953, Gazette Sports Editor Gus Schraeder and University of Iowa head football coach Forest Evashevski switched roles for the Black & Gold game in “Operation Big Switch.”
Iowa football star was first Black lineman in the NFL before becoming a lawyer and judge in Chicago.
Time Machine: After Herbert Richard Wright became a lawyer, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him as U.S. consul to Honduras and later to Venezuela.
TIME MACHINE: Refused use of a hall by the DAR in 1939, Anderson sang from steps of Lincoln Memorial before 75,000 people.
Cedar Rapids company specialized in printing rare, limited edition books after 1905 founding.
Edgar Bergen dropped into a meeting in Cedar Rapids in1963 and used his hand to demonstrate his ventriloquism talent. Donations spiked 23 percent after his talk.
Figures still on display in Algona every December
Charles Hollenbeck sold the land -- a popular picnicking spot -- to two men, who created a modern “park-like” cemetery, Cedar Memorial Cemetery.
Two men — an immigrant and a dentist — provided 30 years of free Thanksgiving dinners in Cedar Rapids
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