Iowa Ranks Sixth in Income Growth Last Year
Iowa posts sixth largest per capita income growth amid steady population and a booming farm economy. Details on page 7A.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1993
Page
1
Farmersburg Lumberyard Fire Stuns Owner Skeptical of Cause
A Farmersburg lumberyard owner questions the origin of the Wednesday night blaze that destroyed his business. Details on page 1B.
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Farmersburg
Airlines push envelope with new passenger incentives
Airlines race to fill seats with separate cabins for women on Middle East flights gambling around the globe and cheaper fares. Details on page 5B.
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Middle East
Jordan Will Not Retire Quietly Says He'll Return
The column notes Michael Jordan is not ending his basketball career but taking a one year hiatus. The piece, appearing on page 1C, frames the move as a temporary break rather than retirement.
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Jordan
Hoops
Michael
Madison Avenue
Hlas
Wetlands Artist James Barker Featured on Bags
James Barker of Spring Iowa is named Wetlands Artist of 1993. His artwork is showcased on shopping bags with details found on page 5C.
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James Barker Spring
Iowa
Today’s Chuckle about politicians mouths
A humorous line questions belief in politicians and suggests paying attention to which side of their mouth speaks. The quip plays on trust and rhetoric without naming any person or event.
PBS rescues canceled I'll Fly Away for revival
Critics praised the series and it earned many awards but failed to draw high ratings. NBC canceled it after two years and PBS picks up the show with a Monday start in TV Vision in Saturday Gazette.
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NBC
PBS
TV Vision
Gazette
Clinton expands Somali deployment amid withdrawal pressure
President Clinton ordered 5,300 more troops and 104 armored vehicles into Somalia with 3,600 Marines offshore as a quick response force. He pledged to end the mission by March 31 while warning that an immediate withdrawal would worsen Somali child deaths and undermine U S credibility with allies.
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Washington
Clinton
Somalia
Congress
U.S
Defense
Les Aspin
Abraham Lincoln
Indian summer cruise on Cedar River sparked by warm Cedar Rapids day
John Vrbicek, a lab technician at Gentle Dental East in Cedar Rapids, took off early to play in Thursday's sunny weather. He rode a friend's personal water craft on the Cedar River as the city reached a high of 85 degrees.
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John Vrbicek
Gentle Dental East
Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Shelter in Cedar Rapids begs funds to cover bills
Willis Dady Emergency Shelter, six years strong in Cedar Rapids, says its operating budget has run dry after dipping into savings. Shelter director Jim Welborn warns bills may go unpaid through year’s end as donations lag and competition for scarce funding rises. He notes volunteers provide goods but banks and utilities require cash.
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Jim Welborn
Welborn
Iowa Electric
Shel
Wild moose spotted on Chickasaw County farm in daylight
Do a large moose wandered across corn and bean fields on the Anderson farm five miles west of Protivin around 9:30 a.m. Neighbors gathered to glimpse the animal, which stood 7 to 8 feet at the shoulder and carried oversized antlers. The moose laid down by early afternoon and then vanished.
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Val Swinton
Iowa
Anderson
Chickasaw County
Jason
Jodie
Anderson Farm
Protivin
Dennis Merrick
Protivia
Merrick
Minnesota
FBI says Zywicki case ruled out for suspect Butler
FBI spokesman Colleen Rowley in Minneapolis said Peter J. Butler, a convicted killer who died by suicide last month, could not have been in position to kidnap and murder Grinnell College student Tammy Zywicki in 1992. Investigators checked Butler's trucking routes and timing but found no link to the Zywicki case, despite media speculation.
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Rick Smith
FBI
Coleen Rowley
Peter J. Butler
Tammy Zywicki
Butler
Minnesota
Twin Cities
Zywicki
Rowley
Minneapolis
Grinnell College
Sioux City
Toni Morrison First Black U S Writer Nobel Laureate
Nobel Prize in literature honors Toni Morrison 62 at Princeton office for Beloved Jazz and other works. Swedish Academy lauds her as a foremost literary artist whose fiction explores silences about black girls and women. Morrison, Pulitzer Prize winner for Beloved, has taught at Princeton since 1989 and produced plays criticism and essays.
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Princeton
N.J
Toni Morrison
Morrison
Princeton University
Swedish Academy
Jane Smiley
Emmett
Anita Hill
Clarence Thomas
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