Railroads fueling Cedar Rapids early musical boom
Cedar Rapids music advanced with the arrival of the 1859 Chicago Iowa and Nebraska railroad which enabled transport of instruments and drew cultural demand. The era saw choirs, bands, and operas grow from 1840s singing at gatherings to annual comic operas and national acts, aided by schools, associations, and key figures like Carrie Dingman and the Great Western band.
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Edar Rapids
Robert Russell Bruner
Cedar Rapids
Bruner
University of Iowa
Ouachita Baptist College
Arkadelphia
Ark
Masonic Library
Linn County
Jackson
Spencer
Cedar Valley Times
Rock Island
Cedar Valley
Coe College
Carrie Dingman Mack
Anna Bishop
Cedar Rapids music culture grows by 1900
The piece notes an opera house with a 2000-seat parquet and front dress circle, used until 1926 and now a storage garage. It highlights Marie Chambers as Cedar Rapids first school music teacher in 1886, the E C Draper Organ Co plant, and a population rise from 18 000 to 25 000 in the 1890s.
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Greene
Cedar Rapids
Second Street
Grand Opera
Adelaide Phillips
D’oyly Carte
London Opera Co
Strakosch and Hess
Boston Ideal Opera Co
Opera House
Union Opera House
First Avenue
Second Street SE
Morocco
Chicago
Marie Chambers
E. C. Draper Organ Co
U.S
Europe
George Greene
AEC Tests If Radiation Could Make Cigarettes Safer
The Atomic Energy Commission announced a six month study on whether ionizing radiation can alter tobacco compounds to reduce harmful smoke. Spindletop Research Center of Lexington Kentucky received a $20000 contract to irradiate standard unfiltered cigarettes with gamma rays from cobalt 60. A machine will smoke irradiated and unirradiated cigarettes to compare their smoke.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
UPI
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Spindletop Research Center
Lexington
Spindletop
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Beverley Duffy
Gazette
Williston Jones
Musical Assn
Philharmonic Society
Kouba
Light Guard
Pirkel
Opera
Myers Band
Carrie Dingman
Barber of Seville
Roosevelt Hotel
J. F. Hladky
Bever Avenue
Smith-Corona
Mochnick Typewriter CO
2Nd Ave
Guaranty Reports
Harold M. Becker
Milo G. Blahnie
James L. Cooper
Glenn O. Fletcher Rapids Chevrolet Company
Charles Loomis JR
Loomis Bros, Gen. Contractors
Harry G. O’donnell
Oscar E. Schweppe
Herbert Stamats Stamats
Tudor Wilder Wilder Grain Company
Milo G. Blahnik
Robert J. Rogers
Kenneth E. Myers
Gladyce Chiverton
Lucille Surovy
Jack K. Onstott
Paul H. Sawyers
D. Bruce Gibson
Guaranty Bank & Trust Company
U.S. Government Securities
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