Eight Gazette Em ployes Mark 25 Years Service In Paper
Eight Gazette staffers total more than 255 years of service led by Henry J. Hromek 42 years as superintendent of the composing room. Charles H Harmer, James F Cowden, Byron R Abbey, Louie Rubek, Louie Hruska, Charles C Roy and others share long tenures from 1891 to 1914 spanning Cedar Rapids and other Iowa papers.
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the Gazette
Henry Hromek
Charles Harmer
Henry J. Hromek
Gazette
Charles H. Harmer Harmer
First Avenue E
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Johnson
California
San Diego
Calif
Cedar Rapids
Kenswood
Marion
Hromek
Harry L. Marshall
Rubek
Hruska
South Side
James F Cowden
Mr. Marshall
Cowden
Byron R. Abbey
Fifteenth Street
Maquoketa
Abbey Re
Mason City
Linotype
Abbey
Cedar Rapids Tribune
Charles Roy
Charles C Roy
Clarence L. Muller
Miller
Roy
John L. Miller
Knights of Columbus
Kresge
Tru-Art Corporation
Bever
Knights of Pythias
First
Veteran Gazette staffers long served in ad alley and news room
The piece profiles A C Bert Shireman longtime foreman of the ad alley and James J Hruska veteran news room cartoonist and artist. It notes Shireman began in Marion and rose to foreman by 1912 while descripting ad room growth from 25 to up to 200 columns daily. It also chronicles Alex Fidler a street circulation manager with decades in Sioux City Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
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C. “Bert” Shireman
Marion
Shireman
Marion Pilot
Marion Sentinel
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Gazette
Marshall
Ad Alley
Gazette Ad Alley
Linotype
Hruska
James J. Hruska
News
Fred Faulkes
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
United States
Alex Fidler
Alex
Minneapolis
Dallas
Fort Worth Houston
Beaumont
San Antonio
Texas
Shreveport
Lo Hudson Kan Oreaver Omaha
Kansas City
Des Moines
Gazette Force
Sioux City News
Fidler
Clarence L Miller
Rame
Washington High School
Leo Novak
East Side
Coc College
McKinley
Japan
Russia
Harry Thaw
Fort Worth
Cleveland
Reel Products Co Expands Purchases Disbrow Building
Increasing demand for their yeast and barley malt products drives Reel Products Co to buy the Disbrow Sash and Door building at 716 Oakland Avenue. The all local firm installs the latest machinery for producing Early River yeast and related products sold worldwide.
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Reel Products Company
Disbrow Sash and Door Company
Oakland Avenue
Robert Ellis Sparked Early Cedar Rapids River Trade
Robert Ellis, a Cedar Rapids settler from 1838, pioneered local commerce by building three flat boats in 1846 loaded with 4,000 bushels of wheat and shipping them to Burlington. His efforts created a farm market and real river traffic, following prior haphazard Cedar River links to St Louis and Mississippi towns. In 1858 the Cedar Rapids steamer built at Beaver, Pennsylvania, operated between St Louis and Cedar Rapids before a river collision destroyed it.
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Robert Ellis
Cedar Rapids
Burlington
New Orleans
Cedar
St. Loui
Mississippi
Ellis
Beaver
St. Louis
Gazette street sales chief Joe Beck marked eleven years
Joe Votroubek known as Joe Beck ends a long run with The Gazette as Alex Fidler's street sales aide. He started selling Gazettes in youth and is now a freshman at Coe College living at 519 Ninth Avenue SE.
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Gazette
Joe Votroubeck
Joe Beck
Ninth Avenue SE
Alex Fidler
Votroubek
Coe Colege
Gazette want ads shaped Cedar Rapids market
The Cedar Rapids Gazette's classified section, dating to 1883, operates the modern want ad system as a community market for buy sell rent and services. Ads are censored for accuracy and a $25 reward combats fraud while highlighting the section’s trusted role and historical growth.
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Frank W. Barta and Son Funeral Home Pioneer of Local Undertaking
Frank W. Barta senior partner of the Frank W Barta and Son funeral home led local embalming advances. He introduced arterial embalming, pioneered cemetery canopies, served on the city council and school board, and then his son Vernon joined in 1925 after university and Chicago embalming training.
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Frank W. Barta
Frank W Barta and Son Funeral Home
Mr. Barta
Barnes School of Anatomy
Emma Pecenka
Worsham College of Embalming
Chicago
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Louie Rubek
Fifth Avenue SW
Rubeck
Rocky Mountain News
Denver
Mason City Times
Weekly
Marlon
Romek Foy Pee
A.C. Shiremar
Charles C. Roy
James F. Cowden
James F. Hrug
Newsies
Newsboy
Reel Products Co
Disbrow
Tru
Joe Votroubek
Holland
Httle
Gazette Office
Want Ad Service
Advertiser
Want
Lasewell
Alice Pendleton
Wanda Pendleton
Marguerite Harriman
Alice Leefers
Robert T. Barr
Darlene Steffens
Dorothy Wilson
Charles H. Moore
Mildred Frazier
Lasswell
Carrie Mason Keith
Louis J. Nilles
Gladys Summy
Goldie Smith
K. C. Council
Frank J. Hindelang
Omaha
J. J. Keane
Dubuque
Supreme Council
New Haven
Conn
Sam Stohl
K. C
Antioch
Indiana
Pocahontas Berkley
Farmers Supply Co
St. SE
Hedges Company
Theronoid
American Trust
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