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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 1941

Page

7

Used home goods and entertainment gear ad batch

Thrifty buyers offered 18 cu ft Crosley refrig ers at 38.95 and Shelvador deluxe at 89.05 with year long guarantees. Used pianos accordions radios and dance lessons advertised with dealers Ginsberg’s Hiltbrunner Music Co and Rhythm Music Co plus rental housing listings and real estate sales in Marion and surrounding areas.

Apt Bize Crosley Shelvador

Cozy bungalow sales pitch floods with eager promises

An intense real estate ad spree touts affordable homes near schools and transit, offering 2 to 4 bedroom houses with modern features and low monthly payments. It lists multiple properties in Cedar Rapids area, furnace heat, insulation, garages, and discounts, urging quick contact with Malcolm V Bolton & Co and others for quick sale.

Cedar Rapids Bolton

Home and income opportunity with rooms and plumbing

Small grocery room home with extra plumbing and new oil heat arranged for roomers. Buildings on the same lot are occupied by an established grocery doing good business. In a nice neighborhood, widow seeks sale. Cash or terms, submit offer. Tait & Wagner Co. 78 Third Ave SE. Dial 8144. Evenings call Glenn Strickland, 24178.

Standard Tire CO Ave Lat St Dial Iowa Electric Light & Power Co Chieftain A. W Peterson Co Maytag Madison Auction House Sth Ave Has. J. Madison Smulekoff's Singer Teal Welwer Sewing Machine Co Uae Arpet Credit Plus Prout Furniture CO First ST Iowa MT Vernon Ave Gibson Kelvinetor Paul R Kelly CO 3Rd Ave See Electric Co Luberger Furniture CO General Electric Philco Consoin Radio Bever, Ave Jeneeice Pewbins Hardware Co 1St St Majestic Electric Boegel 2Nd Ave 14Th Ave 9Th St Oakland Ave Ealamazoo Burroughs Electric Burroughs Farmers Sayines Bank Kalona Towa Granby Walton A. Keller Ind Ave. SE Merveaux Vondracek Meat Market Florida Florida Orange Ad _Ave Valentine Johnson Nut Co New House Garane Indy Call 7Th ST 2Nd St 4Th Ave Apt. F Washington Dia Bever Ave 14Th ST Washington Ave West Side Ist Ave 6Th Ave Reas Ist 4Th St McKinley 16Th Ave Dunreath Arthur District Good Tait & Wagner Co SMITH Ind Conway & Co D Dial Bunenlows St Matthew's Fred COLLARD & &_ CO Buchanan Johnson Istrict Rand MYERS Garee 8Th Ave 12Th St Vernon Heights Franklin Fred E Collard Park Ave Marion J. J. Booth Tore C.R.S.B Center Point Rd Marimes 8Th St Joseph Uleh Prochaska Realty Co 7Th Ave Inree Garace Real Estate Co BRICH Fourth Ave Malcolm V Bolton & Co Griffith Johnson-Pranklin Toonsum P Myers Gustafsson Heranr Crescent St Garnte SA TAM Floyd H Knapp Realter Bruce A West &4 CO Frank Cravens Geo. P. Witwer Hatfield 15Th Ave Ravenscroft House Hen House Wood House Savage Everett McVay Palo Dawley Harry T Hedges THE Hedges Company Dows Ridgewond Northview Meadowbrook Drive Town Eastern Blvd Liberty Drive E Ave DC Tims Ward Cedar Rapids Center Point Keystone Tipton Anamosa Manuiertlo Mt Vernon Elhanor Manchester Solon Ac Sanitary Rendering Company Tawa Dept of Air Happel & Sons Cldar Rapids King Coal & Implement CO 10Th Ave Roy E. Kohl Lisbon McCormick-Deering Leonard Implement CO Ft. John Harness Swain Chas. B. Towers Center St Gordon’s Ellis Bird A. Kriz & Son 1St St. Sehampshire Farrow Alexander Bros Mt. Vernon Kond Wagner Harry Cirrer Linn Third Ave Glenn Strickland

New Homes Immediate Possession Cape Cod Bungalow

Cape Cod bungalow near Vernon Heights with attractive kitchen and bath. large attic. built-in garage. automatic gas heat. near Franklin school. Price options include 400 down and 3750 per month. Another bungalow offered at 500 down and 400 monthly with 55 400 total rate.

Vernon Heights Bath Franklin aesk Fo &_L

Real Estate Wanted Cedar Rapids Listing Request

A Cedar Rapids reader seeks sales listings priced to move on today’s market. A buyer offers around 1000 dollars down for a large rooming house on the East Side with good terms. Contact Hedges Company and Doolittle & Co for listings and exchange options.

Cedar Rapids Hedges 2Nd Ave 2Nd St Doolittle & CO Mr_ Stephen Fred E. Collard

Second Time She Faces Death Penalty in Crime

LAKE CHARLES LA In a second court case within a year Annie Beatrice Toni Henry faced the death penalty for murdering Joseph Calloway near Orange Texas. Jury verdict guilty as charged followed a short deliberation. Harold Finon Burks, her accomplice, awaits a governor’s signature on a death warrant. Calloway was forced to strip in a rice field before being killed.

Lake Charles ULP Annie Beatrice Toni” Henry Houston Tex Mark C Pickrel Beaumont Louisiana Henry Texas State Supreme Court Joseph P. Calloway Harold Finnon Burks Sam H. Jones Calloway Orange Calloaways Callaway

Blame Radio Range For Utah Airliner Crash

The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled the Salt Lake City radio range malfunction caused a United Airlines crash near Centerville Utah on December 4 1940, killing ten. Contributing factors included communications operator failures and the pilot not fully following established radio range procedures approved by the aviation administration.

Washington Civil Aeronautics Board Salt Lake City United A Lines Centerville Utah New 4 Tinthe Plymouth Salt Lake Civ United Enal Aeronautics Administration

Compulsory Service Ordered for French Youths

In Vichy France the government decreed that all Frenchmen reaching age 20 must serve eight months in south construction camps. The order excludes the German occupied zone.

Vichy France

City briefs and social notes from Cedar Rapids area

A miscellany of local items notes a Monday to Thursday bungalow cooking class, a Feb 7 birth to Mr and Mrs A E Eymuil of Los Angeles, and Mrs Ann Eymil as Cedar Rapids native. Trappers chapter Linn County Fish and Game meets 8 p.m. Wednesday at Labor Hall. Helen Hasley after appendectomy at St Luke’s Hospital. Webb City couple wed by justice of the peace Saturday. Cedar Rapids death toll from Loren Thomas in Lombard, Ill. Mexican music program at American Legion meeting. Marshalltown schools chief William F Shirley to speak on Abraham Lincoln at Cedar Rapids Rotary luncheon. Townsend clubs plan picnic and masquerade dance at Odd Fellows hall. Zionist meeting speaker Rabbi Albert Goldstein, with Helen Goldin as guest artist. Cedar Rapids checker finals and state tournament set for Feb 23 in Davenport.

Albert Goldstein Sioux City Florentine Roosevelt Hotel Vaiss Helen Goldin Chicago American Opera Company Civic Light Opera Company

Reserved Bicycle License Numbers Available Now

Cyclists with reserved license numbers may pick them up at the police station anytime rather than waiting. Traffic Captain Gordon Hughes said police can call registrants when their number is reached, though a new system allows immediate distribution. Registrations are taken weekdays 11 am to 7 pm. 225 signed up Saturday, totaling 384 over two days.

Gordeon Hughes Hughes Liam

Woman Driver Backs Into Car Then Flees

George W. Griffith confronted a woman driver who backed into his car at Fourth Avenue and Third Street SE and sped off. Griffith said his car was parked in a lot and the other vehicle’s license number is being checked by police.

George W. Griffith Johnson Avenue NW Griffith Fourth Avenue Third Street

Bicycle Horn and Rear Light Stolen in Parking Lot

Mrs. L Donilda reports two bicycle parts taken from her son’s bike in the Kevele Parking lot at Third Avenue and Fourth Street SE between 3:30 and 4:30 pm Saturday. Police say the light and horn on her other son’s bike were damaged in an attempted theft. both offenders had obtained their equipment Friday.

L Donilda Camburn Court Kevele Third Avenue Fourth Street Donald

Be Prepared Motto Adopted By Nation By F D Roosevelt

President Roosevelt told the Boy Scouts of America that the nation has adopted the motto Be Prepared as a national creed in a brief radio address. He urged the scouts to keep calm and ready, expressing confidence in the country’s resolve to protect welfare during critical hours.

F. D.R Washington Roosevelt Boy Scouts of America United States

Shell attack pierces French Channel defenses

A shell from the Avst flotilla struck the French Channel front near the coast as night fell on a tense period. The action occurred close to the quartering area amid patrols and signaling exchanges between opposing positions.

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