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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1999
Page
1
The All-Metro selections recognize top players in soccer golf tennis and track and field from area high schools. Schools and coaches applaud the standout seniors often earning college interest and league honors.
Jim Post of Galena Illinois performed Mark Twain in the play Mark Twain and the Laughing River at Grant's Place Theatre in Galena. The fragment mentions the river and a tongue in cheek note about Tom Sawyer.
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Galena performer Jim Post blends Mark Twain tales with original songs in a show about the Mississippi. The Gazette photographer and I joined locals to watch his homage on the last Mississippi night in town, with Post striding the stage like Twain and reviving the river’s mystique.
Gazette outdoor editor recounts voyage aboard Old No. 12 houseboat near Spruce Creek Park Bellevue. Aided by Terry Skrivseth and Darrin Baltzell, the boat reached a safe harbor at Spruce Harbor Inn after a pump failure, ending a week on the water.
A head on collision on Highway 218 about two miles south of Hills Iowa killed five people and injured several others. Victims were airlifted to University Hospitals in Iowa City. Police closed both highway lanes while responders cleared debris and investigated the scene. Further details were unavailable at press time.
Thousands lined Windsor streets to witness the wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys Jones, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II. The ceremony drew a royal fanfare with public celebration and media attention across the United Kingdom.
Lazette staff writer recalls how Tom Vilsack plans to keep using Sheaffer pens to sign legislation signaling a long standing Iowa custom. The piece notes Walter A. Sheaffer’s invention of the self filling fountain pen in 1907 and the marketing prowess that helped popularize the brand.
The Gazette outlines two proposed Iowa Constitution amendments on June 29. Questions and answers explain how the measures would curb state spending and tax-raising power.
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