Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous

Feb 09

A ‘demonym’ we all need to know

Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Clayton County Press-Journal, February 9, 1958: “Strawbareans” is a great word and I am fully in favor of bringing this term for the Clayton County town of Strawberry Point back into common use. (“Denonym” is the name of the word … Continue reading →

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Feb 04

COVID claims Old Creamery

Posted on Friday, February 4, 2022, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Old Creamery Theatre, which would have celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, is now another casualty of COVID-19 in the arts. Its website is now an obituary. Old Creamery started in Garrison and then moved to the Amanas, and … Continue reading →

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Jan 28

Hamburg Reporter got new owner

Posted on Friday, January 28, 2022, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

This happened four months ago, but worth a note: The Hamburg Reporter, in the southwest corner of Iowa, changed ownership. It had been a GateHouse paper, then a Gannett paper following the former’s purchase of the latter (but taking the … Continue reading →

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Jan 05

A missed tourism opportunity

Posted on Wednesday, January 5, 2022, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Council: Can’t build pig in Marengo city square (Cedar Rapids Gazette, January 4, 1966) MARENGO — Marengo isn’t going to have a pig in the city square park. In unanimous action, the city council Monday night favored construction of the … Continue reading →

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Dec 28

‘Nothing of much interest occurred to day’

Posted on Tuesday, December 28, 2021, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

via Library of Congress It is true that President James K. Polk’s diary on December 28, 1846, ended with “Nothing of much interest occurred to day”. However, through the Library of Congress, we know that wasn’t the entire entry. Polk, … Continue reading →

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Dec 27

Visit939Iowa+

Posted on Monday, December 27, 2021, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

I have both noted and ragged on the two guys from Nebraska who visited every incorporated place in Iowa this year and turned their travels into a book, “Visit 939 Iowa”. I am pleased and obligated to report that my … Continue reading →

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Nov 08

Eating your way down the Lincoln Highway

Posted on Monday, November 8, 2021, at 10:10 AM by Jeff

WHO’s Roger Riley drove Iowa’s eastern half of the Lincoln Highway for a feature story. This means he got PAID to eat prime rib at the Lighthouse Inn near Cedar Rapids, an omelet at the Lincoln Cafe in Belle Plaine, … Continue reading →

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Oct 20

Taking a run through every town

Posted on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

For all the hubbub about the two Nebraska guys going to every BUT NOT EVERY town in Iowa, there’s another cross-state trekker out there, and he’s doing it the hard way. For the last six years, Tyler Sullivan of North … Continue reading →

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Sep 22

It’s 941, not 939

Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

I should have said something earlier. I should have said it when I made a post about it. The two Nebraska students who visited “all 939” towns in Iowa this summer — and got another article in the Register — … Continue reading →

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Sep 15

Cafe 218 is gone; Dollar General coming to Dysart?

Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2021, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The old Cafe 218 in Vinton opened shortly after the US 218 bypass of Vinton did. For about a decade, it was vacant. As of the week before Labor Day, it’s gone. Stories: Vinton News, Vinton Today. The land is … Continue reading →

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