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Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

14 Apr 2024

Page 24

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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 2024

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24

Beekeeper Bees and Cedar Rapids Icons of 1890s Era

In Cedar Rapids the 1890s featured publisher and firefighter Louis Horsky, department store co owner Alphonse Franchere who built Athletic Park, and amateur photographer Sam Houx who captured city scenes. Houx documented bee swarms near the Grand Hotel in 1897 while streetcars clanged at First Avenue and Second Street SE.

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Bees And Beekeeping Move Through Early Gazette Narrative

In a Cedar Rapids Gazette feature, Louis Horsky is filmed attracting bees to a branch then placing it in a cracker box, with a mischievous for sale ad later run by the paper. Horsky dies at 44 from tonsillitis complications, leaving a wife and five daughters. photographer Roux leaves Cedar Rapids in 1898, returns in 1902, and dies in 1934 at age 77.

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