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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1939
Page
6
Snippet from want ads showing duplex rooms apartments houses and rooms for rent with details like furnitures, prices, utilities and contact numbers. Includes references to kitchens fireplaces garages and various address blocks and neighborhoods.
Multiple listings show furnished and unfurnished 2 to 4 room apartments with heat hot water and bills paid. Locations include Oak Park Pleasant Oak, Oak Ave SE, 8th St SW, 3rd St NW, and nearby houses offering single and shared units. Prices range from $5.50 weekly to $37.50 monthly. some include garages or automatic heat.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette recalls its 1883 birth and celebrates longtime subscribers led by Amelia Mackey 95 of 1719 Fourth Ave SE. Nearly a generation of readers, including Narfi e Seely and Wes Benesh, recall early delivery routes through snow and the newspaper’s growth while advertisements mix with nostalgia and housing offers.
The Cedar Rapids area sees a state conservation turn on fish removal and replacement. Scouts report a steady drop in soft fish since 1937 while game fish rise, with 874,025 fish rescued and returned to the river under Paul Gibbs and volunteers.
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