Tru-Art Engravers Leads with New Photo Engraving Processes
Tru-Art Engravers, based at 233 First Avenue E in Cedar Rapids, adopts a new negative strip process and tests a color reproduction method to boost efficiency and output. The firm serves eastern Iowa buyers with commercial art design, layouts, photographs, half tones, color plates and zinc etchings, and also specializes in yearbook design. Thirteen craftsmen staff engraving and photography, with expansion planned to hire more skilled workers and relocate families as Cedar Rapids grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
True-Art Corporation
Kresge
First Avenue E
Midwest
Tru-Art
Iowa
Tru- Art
Cedar Rapids
Tru Art Engraving Plant Highlights Unity in Advertising
True Art officials emphasize the value of engraving as a sales tool and its role as an ally to successful business operations. A view shows the Kresge building at the southeast corner of First Avenue East and Third Street, with the Tru Art Engravers occupying the entire third floor and offices on the top floor. Entrance is on First Avenue East.
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True Art
Tru-Art
Kresge
First Avenue E
Third Street
Tru-Art Engravers
Asphalt Equipment In Demand For New Low-Cost Highways
Town Manufacturing reports rising demand for asphalt paving plants as farm to market roads expand across states. The Iowa firm highlights rapid mix and traveling road mix systems, hot mix plants, and Cedar Rapids line equipment for gravel processing and material handling used from New Jersey to Utah.
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Iowa Manufacturing Company
Continental Divide
Montana
New Jersey
Utah
New Mexico
Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago
Cooler Weather Boosts Local Business In July Report
Walter Grady of Dun and Bradstreet notes a July trade revival with overall volume up about five percent in larger stores and over twenty five percent in hot weather driven lines versus last year. Wholesale foodstuffs rise due to drought, canned goods demand climbs, and fall merchandise moves ahead of last year. Automobile sales rise twenty five percent as new building and remodeling stay strong.
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Walter Grady
Dun and Bradstreet
Mr. Grady
Great Care Taken In Manufacture Of Quality Wallpaper
J. E. Cameron of Standard Glass and Paint reports from Glen Falls New York on Imperial washable wallpaper. He notes the Imperial plant uses its own pulp mill color factory and printing plant to control all ingredients from raw material to finish. He saw tests ensuring quality paper color design grounding and non fading.
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J. E. Cameron
Standard Glass and Paint Company
Imperial Wallpaper
Glen Falls
N. Y
Imperial
Imperial Company
Cameron
Quality Wallpaper Elevates Home Impressions Says Cameron
Skilled craftsmen and machinery align to deliver premium wallpaper. Cameron notes the product commands higher prices due to quality and believes wallpaper is a decorative article now, not just a wall covering. Homes require quality to complement modern furniture and textiles.
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Cameron
World of Bridge Puzzle and Team Play Notes
In this World of Bridge column the expert player faces worst case thinking, with a sample auction and play that dissects a diamond split and trumps. It also includes two recent brain twisters with solutions and a brief obituary note for A. E. Housman, noted for his early poetry.
Local permits issued last week for sheds garages and remodels
Mrs. Blanche Birky and Francis Birky each filed for new sheds at 431 and 394 Twenty-seventh avenue SW with costs listed. The week also includes reroofs and remodels on multiple addresses across SW NW NE SE, with totals ranging from 10 to 450 dollars and a playground shelter project at 350 Twenty-seventh street NE.
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Blanche Birky
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Francis ‘Birky
J. F. Parkis
C Avenue NW
F. T. Hersch
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
E. T. Smith
Carlisle Street
George E. Harrs
Elmhurst Drive
Tae" Standard' Oil Company
First Avenue
Tele -Edo Valentine
Ellis Boulevard
R. M. Hewitt
Third Street
Fred Ritchie
N Street
C. C. Schaefer
Third Avenue
H. L. Nehls
Leo Raim
Twenty-sixth Street
Anton Yuva
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
J Avenue NW
Gas Heat Adoption Surges in Cedar Rapids Homes
More than 1,000 Cedar Rapids houses have adopted gas heat in the last two years as the local gas company plans for fall sales. The spread includes automatic water heaters with 6,000 homes in the city now equipped. Officials cite convenience, constant temperatures, and reduced housekeeping costs as factors in the rapid adoption and note a reserve supply of artificial gas if mains fail.
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Cedar Rapids
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Arthur M. Tschirgi
P. J. Flanders
Franklin S. Battin
Tru-Art Engraving
Safe Investments
Scott McCintyre & CO
the I. B. McGladrey
Certified Public Accountants
Cedar Rapids & Marion City Railway
Neon Industries
DIAL
Rude
Lefebure
Lefebure Corporation
Bridge
Josephine Culbertson
South Ig
Declarer
South
West
East
Jack
Jen
North
A. E. Housman
Laplant
Choate
MFG. Co., Inc
Tampers
3Rd Ave
Greene Square
Cedar Rapids “Cravet” Crushers
Aurel Relds
Iowa Machine CO
8Th Ave
Eisags Company
6Th St. NE
Cedar Rapids Auto Club
Montrose
Cedar Rapids Gas CO
Universal Crusher Company
PROM
Lt Elas
Reliable Transit Co
Tama Tat
2Nd Ave
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Company
Advertising Printing
Paine
Laurance Anae SC Matas Ae
United State Bank
6Th Ave
C St
Fox Garage
Fifteenth Street
Roosevelt
WM. S. Cadow
Mer
Were de
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Cartage Contractors
Fifth Street
CL Rae
Albert
Dyers & Dry Cleaners
J. L. Nehis
Mer. W. D. Ralston
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