Edgewood road NW extension awarded to Barker Construction
Cedar Rapids council awarded Barker Construction Co. of Iowa City a 213792.50 contract to grade and drain Edgewood road NW from O Avenue to the Cedar River. The vote also authorized payments, fund transfers, and various deeds and plats related to Edgewood road and nearby developments.
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Cedar Rapids
Barker Construction Co
Iowa City
Edgewood Road
O Avenue
Cedar River
Cramer Bros. Construction Co
Street Construction
Northwest Inner Beltline Fund
Gerald F
Patricia A. Galligan
Local notices and reports mix business and law changes
The page records zoning petitions at Greenfield street and Blairs Ferry road and at 625 Sixteenth avenue SW. It lists July receipts of $1,601.82 by the police, July refuse collections totaling 674 loads and 8,467 miles, and May fire losses of $30,647.47 with $20,809.47 on buildings. It notes Richard Carlyle’s permission to attend the American Public Works Congress in Cleveland September 13–18 and ongoing fire prevention inspections.
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Johnson Avenue
Highway 30
Midwest Development Co
Petitioner
Mt. Vernon Road
Norbert Poeschl
Robert Kazimour
Fiftieth Street
Ridgeside Drive
Brentwood, Inc
Center Point Road
Adolph Helm
R. E. Berzinski
Charles Daugherty
Suburban Street
Terry
Lawrence Bjornsen
Blairs Ferry Road
Twin Pines
Iowa Properties Co
Ent
American Public Works Congress
Cleveland
James Stewart Stars in Carbine Williams on Channel 9
In a Friday MORNING MOVIE segment on Channel 9 at 9 30, James Stewart plays a comeback driven convict in Carbine Williams. The feature mixes drama with a hint of sports ethos as family figures comment on the film and television schedule.
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James Stewart
Those Were the Days by Hal Boyle memory piece
New York AP recalls nostalgic, humorous reminiscences of bygone American life. It contrasts memory as solace with social quirks from past decades, noting balloons over airplanes, collies, mustaches on Taft Pershing Hughes, youthful nicknames, fashion, trains, hot dogs, pancakes of memory, and hopeful forecasts of foreign wars ending soon.
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New York
America
William Howard Taft
Gen
John Pershing
Charles Evans Hughes
Saturday Evening Post
Brit buys old car. rattling trunk hides live shell
Peter Norburn bought a used car for 48 dollars and drove it home. A rattling sound in the trunk prompted a British army bomb disposal unit to rush to Norburn's home to render safe a live 10 inch artillery shell found in the trunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldhanger
England
UPS
Peter Norburn
Norburn
Russell Cave National Monument At Bridgeport Alabama History
Russell Cave National Monument near Bridgeport Alabama preserves a record of continuous human habitation from about 7000 Bc to 1650 Ad. The site reveals long term occupation by Indigenous peoples through archaeological layers and artifacts illustrating cultural development.
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Russell Cave
Bridgeport
Ala
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Jack D. Smith
Joe D
Jeanette L. Schmitz
St. Patrick's Church
LaSalle Heights
DeNeuf
Forest Lane Co
Twin Pines Seventh Addition
Svlvia Avenue NE
Cottage Glen
Morris Plan Realty Co
Forty-second Street
Kennedy High School
Russell Drive
American Legion Auxiliary
Lee Wells
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Third Avenue
David J. Stone
Raymond
Donna Krug
Knights of Columbus
L. V. McDonough
St. Matthew's Church
First Avenue
Twenty-third Street Drive
By Oswald
James Jacoby
Louis Watson
South
Louis
WEST
AAKTS
HAQKS
N.T
Vergil
Dummy
Ace
Jimmy Harle
John W
Edith L. Byse
Greenfield Street
John J. Wheeler
Har-La- den Investors, Inc
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Chief of Police
Richard Carlyle
Refuse Collection Department
Fire Prevention Bureau
Ichabods
Ichy
Ed Luce
Luce & Sullivan Realtors
Center Pt. Rd
Agnew
David
White House
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Hal Boyle
Percy
Clarence
Harold
Reginald
Marion
Fats
Butch
Depot Loafers
Big City
Mfr
Elmer
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