This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1998
Page
3
A tractor-trailer loaded with used tires rammed a car on a rural Nassau highway killing all five occupants and injuring three others. The two-vehicle collision caused a fire. state police cited a steep hill and a downhill path as factors in the deadly crash.
Dickinson North Dakota judge sets $100,000 bail for Larry Froistad Jr. after he allegedly confessed on the Internet to killing his 5-year-old daughter Amanda. Prosecution urged no bail, while defense notes severe mental illness and pending July preliminary examination.
A Labor Department survey shows 67 percent of last spring’s high school graduates entered college in the fall, with 70.3 percent of female graduates enrolled. About 1.9 million of 2.8 million graduates from the class of 1997 were in college, mostly full time and in four-year institutions.
Eldridge Cleaver, a core Black Panthers figure and author of Soul on Ice, died in Pomona California at 62. His cause of death was not released. Cleaver's life spanned activist, convict, presidential candidate, ex Panther, exile, and later anti communist adviser.
A 20-year-old college student, Guy Altmann, becomes the first known person to survive a pioneering operation that removed his heart to excise a malignant tumor from his left ventricle and then reimplanted it. Surgeons replaced the damaged valve with swine tissue and rebuilt the heart wall using cow pericardium.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.