Tru-Art Engravers Embrace New Photo Engraving Processes
Tru-Art Engravers, housed on the third floor of the Kresge building at 233 First Avenue E, leads midwest engraving by adopting a new negative process to produce strip negatives and experimenting with a color reproduction method. The Cedar Rapids firm serves eastern Iowa with catalogs, trade publications, and school annual designs, employing thirteen craftsmen and planning fall staff expansion as demand grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
True-Art Corporation
Kresge
First Avenue E
Midwest
Tru-Art
Iowa
Tru- Art
Cedar Rapids
Arthur M. Tschirgi
P. J. Flanders
Franklin S. Battin
Third Street
Tru-Art Engravers
Tru-Art Engraving Plant Emphasizes Unity and Coherence
Tru-Art promotes its engraving services as the unified source for illustrations and advertising art. Officials argue consolidation improves coherence of sales messages and enhances the effectiveness of modern business communications.
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True Art
Tru-Art
Cooler Weather Boosts Local Business In July Report
Walter Grady of the Dun and Bradstreet local office reports a July rally in retail and manufacturing. Stores show about a 5 percent rise overall, with hot weather driven lines up 25 percent or more from last year. Food stuffs demand grows amid drought, and fall merchandise moves ahead of last year. Automobile sales rise 25 percent, and new building/remodeling remains high with July permits above June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Grady
Dun and Bradstreet
Mr. Grady
Asphalt Equipment In Demand For New Low-Cost Highways
Iowa Manufacturing officials report rising demand for asphalt paving plants as states expand farm to market roads. They note traveling road mix and hot mix plants enable low cost road building by efficient aggregate handling and moisture removal, with Cedar Rapids branding and extensive use in 18 states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Continental Divide
Montana
New Jersey
Utah
New Mexico
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago
Bridge Brain Twister and a poet’s death in brief
In this issue, a bridge puzzle shows South as dealer with a 3-2 diamond split defense. careful signaling and discards determine the contract. The column also notes A. E. Housman death,-era tribute to the classic poet of "A Shropshire Lad."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Declarer
A. E. Housman
Local permits show many new sheds garages and reroofs
The last week saw numerous local permit actions including new sheds for Blanche Birky at 431 Twenty-seventh Ave SW and Francis Birky at 394 Twenty-seventh Ave SW, reroofs for J F Pavilis and George Miller, remodels at multiple addresses, a service station remodel by Standard Oil, and a shelter house project by the playground commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Birky
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Francis Birky
J. F. Pavilis
C Avenue
F. T. Hersch
Garoa
Greenwood Drive
W. J. Burian
Second Street
G. H. Bergen
Twenty-first Street
Godfrey Hladky
Tenth Street
L. O. Hepker
Eighteenth Street
Henry C. Johnson
Fruitland Boulevard
L. F. Andrie
Ninth Street
Anton Armon
Fourth Street
N Street
C. C. Schaefer
Third Avenue
H. L. Nehls
H. H. Apgar
Fifth Avenue
William Selba
Sixteenth Avenue
H. F. Blomquist
Seventh Avenue
George Miller
Second Avenue
Mrs. Morgan
Sixteenth Street
W. C. Luke
Center Point Road
Anton Popelka
Twentieth Street
Playground Commission
Twenty-seventh Street
Charles Janu
Avenue NW
Great Care Taken In Manufacture Of Quality Wallpaper
J E Cameron manager of the Standard Glass and Paint company reports from Glen Falls New York after visiting Imperial wallpaper factory. The Imperial company runs its own pulp mill color factory and printing plant to control all materials from raw paper to finished product. He notes extensive testing for quality paper design color and non fading grounding. Chemists and artists supervise the process to ensure high standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Cameron
Standard Glass and Paint Company
Imperial Wallpaper
Glen Falls
N. Y
Imperial
Imperial Company
Cameron
Gas Heat Adoption Surges in Cedar Rapids Homes
More than 1,000 Cedar Rapids households have installed gas heating in the last two years. The Cedar Rapids Gas company plans fall sales to expand this growth as natural gas spreads citywide. Automatic water heaters are also rising in use with 6,000 homes now equipped. Gas offers automatic operation, constant temperatures, health protection, and a reserve artificial gas supply if the main fails. Clean combustion lowers housekeeping costs and frees basement space for living areas.
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Cedar Rapids
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Twister No
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Safe Investments
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Third Street SE
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Marion
DIAL
AAA
Cedar Rapids Auto Club Hotel
Montrose
Cedar Rapids Gas CO
MFG. Co., Ing
Tampers
ICE & Fuel CO
Rapids Crushers
C Avenue NW
3Rd Ave
Greene Square
Reliable Transit Co
Milwaukee
Des Moines
Davenport
Waterloo
Lefebure
Lefebure Corporation
8Th Ave
Iowa Milling Company
6Th St. NE
General Printing Publications Advertising Printing
Laurance Press
United State
16Th Ave
St. SW
Messinger & Sons
Cartage Contractors
Fifth Street
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Company
Fox Garage
Fifteenth Street
Roosevelt
WM. S. Cadow
Mar
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Albert
Dyers & Dry Cleaners
Utes Tintle
H. L. Nehlis
Mer. W. D. Ralston
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