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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1940
Page
20
A guide to practical plot development for small houses, emphasize planting to boost appeal and living quality. Recommends shade trees, avoids rapid growers near foundations, uses fruit trees, and stresses proper scale, privacy hedges, and placing garages to keep rear yard livable. Planting can be added gradually.
Homeowners seek watertight French doors. A four inch brass saddle with an interlocking metal strip on the bottom of the doors helps stop moisture at the sill and improve air tightness.
New York readers learn how to mix rather than match bedroom furniture for style and budget. The piece covers using mirrors glass and modern beds with traditional dressers, plus suggestions on rugs fabrics and layouts to refresh a room without full replacements.
Dyersville Canning plant brick section and adjacent three acres sold to J E Scherrmann company used for corn canning during summer employing 50 to 100. Continental Can Chicago ownership. Manchester reports extensive summer repairs to three public schools including redecorations. Hartwick sees Russell L Gabriel buying Clair McTirath grocery and N H Mellrath hardware, operating at new site after Sept 4 with stock moved from current location. additional details note relocation to cold storage and beauty operations by Maxine Boatman.
Questions and answers cover linoleum over worn pine floors, floor leveling, bonding with felt, and venting heat through multiple rooms. It discusses water pipe leak repairs in exposed cellars versus upper floors, veneer brick finish viability, FHA insured mortgages for repair funds, and chimney repair without full teardown.
The Shasta dam rises 500 feet high as the second largest masonry unit worldwide, part of California’s Central Valley project. Concrete pouring began just before Friant dam construction, with a massive conveyor belt system and cableway aiding mass placement. A 35 mile reservoir will back up behind the dam, shifting Sacramento River twice in 18 months to enable cleaning and future railroad tunnels. The $170 million project targets flood control, irrigation, power storage, navigation, and municipal water distribution.
Anton Pipal of 59 Sixteenth Avenue SW filed for a new shed at 100 dollars. Lewis Grim of 958 Twentieth Avenue SW seeks a new dwelling for 1,500 dollars. Lillian B Fishel at 18145 Fourth Street NW repairs a dwelling for 825 dollars. Fishel at 208-210 Fishth Street SE repairs a dwelling for 25 dollars. L J Nilles of 1914 Grande Ave SE plans a remodel for 54 dollars. August Sila at 1912 Mallory Street SW reroofs a dwelling for 140 dollars. A F Pionke at 2408 Fourth Ave SE remodels a dwelling for 200 dollars. M J Buckner of 3911 Sherman Avenue NE repairs a dwelling for 50 dollars. William Elhalm at U7 Thirty Fourth Street NE remodels a dwelling for 50 dollars. Mary Ward at 1821 Avenue NE reroofs a dwelling for 73 dollars. Mrs Emma Pisarik at 79 Sixteenth Avenue SW does temporary commercial work for 100 dollars. Frank Soukup at 1432 Seventh Avenue SE reroofs a dwelling for 5100 Hubbard Ice and Fuel company.
The article advises that exterior remodeling must harmonize with the house style. It notes Colonial adaptations as prevailing and warns against mismatched doorways or porticos during renovations. For major changes, consulting an architect is recommended to avoid a hodgepodge of old and new.
Washington report from the Agriculture Department cites economists forecasting a sound fall in farm income due to increased industrial production for national defense. It expects farm income to exceed 1939 by at least 500 million dollars, with six month gains totaling 296 million. Export markets remain weak while domestic supplies of food and feed are ample, including 1.0 to 1.9 billion bushels of wheat and corn, cotton at 23 million bales, and a record meat-meat animals. Hog slaughter supplies for the new marketing year are about 19 percent smaller than this season’s, though storage stocks are abnormally large.
A Washington farmer, John Radd, won the tall-corn contest with a 20 feet 3/8 inch stalk grown near Washington, Louisiana. The announcement was made Saturday.
West Union July dairy test shows 470 cows in Fayette No 4 Cow Test association averaging 638 pounds milk and 256 pounds butterfat per cow. High individual cows include a West Union Holstein at 1 775 pounds milk and 816 pounds butterfat and a Spencer Guernsey herd at 917 pounds milk and 448 pounds butterfat per cow.
The Independence state hospital Holsteins led the Wapsie Valley Cow Testing association in July under Tester Howard Guse with average 1226 pounds of milk and 37.8 pounds of butterfat. Red, a grade Guernsey from Tom and Bowden, led at 1593 pounds of milk and 60.5 pounds of butterfat. The association recorded 424 cows tested, including 57 dry cows, averaging 635 pounds of milk and 24.4 pounds of butterfat.
Des Moines IN Says hog show entries are high so 4-H pig judging begins August 22 at 12 30 PM with market pigs first. 4-H events run Friday and Saturday culminating in the auction sale of open and market hogs Saturday afternoon. Open class judging spans August 26 to 29.
The notice lists Aug dates and locations for pig breeds and sales. Breeders include Ames Lew Vining Des Moines R E Secor Ottumwa AL Anderson F L Quaife Fort Dodge H H Kildee Cedar Rapids Pon Briton Ames Allen Nash Des Moines Pemberton Tama Archie Sinex Belle Plaine Tamworths Hereford Yorkshires and more with sale times such as 8 am and 10 am. Jack Halsex Des Moines to handle the auction of market barrows on Aug 26.
Fred W Kersten 63 a prominent McGregor farmer died Friday night after a long illness He had lived on the same farm near McGregor 35 years Surviving are his wife and two daughters Mrs George Richards of Chicago and Ethel Kersten of Dubuque Funeral services will be at 2 pm Monday at the Congregational church
The Dubuque County Can Test association will hold its annual picnic on August 20 at the Henry C Vaske farm one mile south of New Vienna. A judging contest is planned in the morning and a 4 H girls demonstration by the county champions is set for the afternoon.
Independence Canning plans to start its corn packing season about August 20. Muss Carrie Wackerbarth, owner and manager, says the company has contracted 300 acres of sweet corn with local growers and has made repairs indicating a large, high quality crop for the season.
A meeting of all vocational agriculture students and prospective students at Lisbon High School and their parents is set for the evening of August 20. The sound and color film Pye Projects Make Profits will be shown.
Tipton canning plant opened with five workers and expects expansion to about one hundred this week. The year’s pack is anticipated to be small lasting ten days to two weeks. Corn quality is excellent with three hundred acres contracted for.
William Gericke suffered serious injuries Tuesday at Clos Gericke farm when a wet bundle jammed the threshing machine shaft pulling his arm into the drive belt. Local authorities and emergency responders were alerted. the accident occurred during normal harvesting operations.
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