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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1932
Page
13
The Gazette relies on The Associated Press United Press and International News Service to deliver every day’s news. Wires operate from 7 a.m. to midnight feeding 150000 words daily to readers including rural routes.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette and Republican merged into a seven day paper with four press units, expanding pages from 48 to 64. The paper expanded wire services and maintained editorials, featuring Will Rogers and other luminaries. circulation rose from 6,000 rural homes to over 33,000 by 1932, while leadership changed after the deaths of Mrs. Holt and Harry Marshall.
The Gazette moved in February 1925 to a modern two story plant at Third Avenue and Fifth Street without missing deadlines. The shift from First Avenue brought five times more floor space and a larger press room, enabling a 48 page duplex and stereotyping outfit. In 1927 The Evening Gazette acquired The Cedar Rapids Republican’s circulation equipment and goodwill, launching the Evening Gazette and Republican.
Three Cedar Rapids firms consume millions of bushels annually 42 000 000 oats 15 885 000 corn and 2 275 000 wheat. They ship grain in and out using 62 000 freight cars each year. Firms are Quaker Oats Penick and Ford Ltd and the Three Minute Cereals company.
Veterans of The Gazette recall practical jokes that brightened busy days in the old paper’s rooms near the First Avenue bridge. Charles H. Harmer and Henry J. Hromek, each with over forty years at The Gazette, describe endless office gags involving Pat Smith the drayman and editor Fred Faulkes, including a horse prank, a salt and sugar swap, a carp stunt, and a cat-buying ruse that drew rival paper ads.
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