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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1944
Page
11
A dense list of rental apartments houses and real estate offerings in Marion and surroundings. Ads note unfurnished and furnished apartments, one and two bedroom units, houses for rent, and numerous homes for sale with details on location, features, and contact numbers.
The notice lists red and blue ration stamps for meat canned goods fats and milk with validity dates. It notes airplane stamp and sugar coupons, tire inspection changes, and gas and fuel oil coupon periods. The Linn County war price and rationing board led by A T Pleune provides office hours at the American Building on First Ave SE.
AP analysis notes millions of white collar workers remain squeezed by low pay and high living costs. Senators led by Claude Pepper urge relief through price controls, WLB changes, and higher benefits, but funding, scope, and wartime limits hinder progress.
A compilation of nominal bid and asked ranges for Eastern Iowa securities and bonds. Listings cover utilities, manufacturers, and transportation firms with figures for common shares and preferreds, including Central States Electric, Iowa Public Service, Town Electric, National City Lines, Quaker Oats, Rath Packing, and United Lines.
Advertisements list multiple properties for sale and rent including 4 to 12 room houses, 5 and 6 room homes, bungalows with garages and full lots. Locations span SE side and near schools and bus lines with prices from 2 400 cash to 4 200 terms. Real estate firms include HATFIELDS Realtors J P CONWAY SHORS DR BOOTH Watsabaugh Pazdera Tony Giza and others.
Various Cedar Rapids properties offered for sale or trade including a 4 room first floor 54 Kenwood with 40 by 185 lot and garage, ideal for trade for larger near St Matthew's school. Also a well built 5 bedroom with gas heat and finished attic offered at 9000, trade for 6 to 9 room closer in. Exclusive district 13000 with automatic heat and double garage. Also Cedar Rapids farm and income properties and more trade offers listed by Fred E Collard & Co Hites Realtors Cravens and Herges Company with multiple contacts for replies and exchanges.
Attention homeowners seek fast disposal via seven active salesmen at Tat & Wagner Co Realtors with cash buyers and daily ads. Multiple agencies listed including Frede Collard Malcolm V Bolton and Paz Der a offer house listings, telephone numbers, and box notices in Gazette notices.
Conveyances recorded 75 and mortgages 39 in Linn County from April 21 to 27 per Linn County Abstract Co. Mortgages total 127 450 dollars. Comparison with last year shows no conveyances or mortgages listed and a 95 387 81 dollar mortgage aggregate.
Bank clearings in Cedar Rapids rose notably last week per Clearing House data. Totals compare: week ended April 29 2 320 815 04 dollars. week ended May 1 1943 1 815 917 28 dollars. week ended April 22 2 057 158 86 dollars.
British business leaders push a revised world trade alliance led by Sir Edgar Jones to create international product committees that stabilize prices and allocate exports. Critics warn of renewed cartels while U S officials question benefits and motives amid postwar peace talks and labor concerns.
A Chamber of Commerce survey based on Interstate Commerce Commission data shows the U S transportation system in 1943 moved freight totaling over a billion tons at an average 1 000 miles, with railroads carrying 72 percent of the total. Trucks served mostly inter city less than carload freight.
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