Super Sunday Q and A playfully explains the big game
A lighthearted Q and A clarifies Super Bowl basics with comic answers. It covers team names origin San Diego Chargers and San Francisco 49ers, neutral Florida venue, coin toss for ties, and playful digs at commercials and Doritos. Mike Deupree’s weekly column appears in The Gazette.
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San Diego Chargers
San Francisco 49Ers
NFL
AFL
P.T. Larson
49Ers
San Francisco
Chargers
San Diego
California
Florida
Pismo Beach
Miami
San
Rams
San Louis
Disneyland
Mike Deupree
the Gazette
Consumer Protection Hotline Advised by Iowa Attorney General
Iowa residents are urged to file consumer complaints with the state Attorney General's Office. Contact the Consumer Protection Division at Hoover State Office Building, Des Moines, or call 515 281 5926 for assistance and guidance on remedies.
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Iowa
Consumer Protection Division
Attorney General
S ‘Ier
Hoover State
Des Moines
Blue Room Facade Renewed at White House After 23 Years
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton leads unveiling of a renovated Blue Room as the White House completes a long planned restoration begun after Christmas. The Oval Room has hosted presidents, guests, and historic events since the 1790s with blue decor solidified in 1837 under Van Buren.
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Washington
George Washington
White House
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Committee For the Preservation of the
Clintons
Clinton
Andrew Jackson
Robert Ross
Oval
Patricia Nixon
Noel Lattimore
Martin van Buren
Jackson
van Buren
Historic Blue Room Moments With U S Presidents
A compact tour of presidential memories in the Blue Room. Polk and Lincoln shielded themselves from crowds behind a marble table. Taft installed a Victrola with ragtime to opera records he turned himself. Cleveland married Frances Folsom in candlelit setting. Wilson daughters wed and sang there. Roosevelt received a lion-skin rug gift from Haile Selassie. Reagan welcomed American hostages in 1981.
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James Polk
Abraham Lincoln
William Howard Taft
Grover Cleveland
Frances Folsom
Woodrow Wilson
Jessie
Nell
Wilson
Margaret
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Ronald Reagan
Iran
Gazette promotes agriculture with soybean ink
The Gazette highlights agricultural support and prints on recycled newsprint using soybean ink and encourages readers to recycle newspapers at City Carton or at the nearest recycling location, including the address 4250 Sixth St SW.
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the Gazette
City Carton
Sixth St
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Consumer Hot Line
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Phillip J. Vesey
D.D.S
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Edgewood RD
Spurs
James Hoban
William Seale
Philadelphia
Seale
James Monroe
Franklin Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
Schwinn
Cannondale
Northtswne Cycling & Fitness
Blairs Ferry Rd
Ganette
AAA Travel Agency
Aide Care Medical
American Dream Cruises
American Travel & Tour Array Builders Back & Neck Health Care
Byers & Happel/towa Realty
C.R. Blackbelt Academy
Cambridge Careers Camp Courageous Carmike Cinemas Classified Computing Solution
Cox Cable Cruises Unlimited Davis, Jones & Lamb Dental Arts
Des Moines Conventior
Dr. van Cleve
Arthurs Farmers Savings Bank
Farmers State Bank Financial Planning Service
First National Bank Flock Sales
Fox Eye Institute
Frontier Garden Center
Guaranty Bank
Gwendolyn’s Bed & Breakfast Hancock Fabrics
Hawkeye Bank
Holiday Inn Holiday Travel
Servic Holiday Travel
Holley’s Men Shop Home Town Restyling
Homeland Bank of Monticello
Men’s
Penney
Johnson County
Pheasant Keller Hull Klinger Paint
Linn Area Credit Union
Linn Photo
Manchester
Quad Cities
Mercy Medical Michael's Stores
Midland Savings Bank
Millhiser Smith Agency
Mississippi Belle
Montgomery Ward Optical
Montgomery Ward Beauty
Salor Munson Electric
Northtowne
Norwest Bank
Payless Optical Cente
Pearle Vision
Phelan’s
Intericer
Re/Max Associates
Richard Lear Land Auction
Bex
Brandstarter
Royal Flush Shuttle
Sears Optical Securities Corporation of Low Shamrock Productions
Sieh & Company
Silver Eagle Skogman Realty
Smulekoff’s Speed Print
St. Luke’s Hospital
Stateline
Silver Smith Stewart Funeral Home
Cedar Rapids Com Credit Union Theatre of Cedar Rapids
Tires
Travel Company
Travel & Transport
United States Cellular
University of Iowa
Hanche University of Iowa Mba
Voice-Tel of Iowa
Wakeens Family Welter
West Side
Wisconsin
Division of Tourism
Wright Travel Trailers
Younkers
Iowa City
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