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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1939
Page
5
A terse ad urges buyers to purchase used cars this month with emphasis on cash price. The message mentions coal shovel and tornd torrid lump ebony lump as unclear items while promoting a February sale.
Several unfurnished first floor and two story units listed across multiple streets. Ads include 3 to 5 room configurations with baths, heat, water, and sometimes appliances. various rents from $37.60 to around $65 monthly with factors like bills paid and electric heat noted. Numerous phone numbers and address snippets indicate a broad rental market.
Real estate notes offer apartments and houses for sale or exchange in Cedar Rapids Des Moines and town areas. Ads mention down payments small houses East side and near Harrison plus farms and boiler trades. Listings promote exchanges and 3650 lists with contact numbers and agents.
Trading pauses across major exchanges in memory of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. The New York stock and cotton exchanges and the Chicago board of trade suspend activity while New Orleans cotton, Savannah naval stores, and Chicago livestock markets operate as usual. all foreign and Canadian markets remain open.
United Press reports warming temperatures would bring relief to the central states after a 48 hour severe cold wave blamed for at least 15 deaths. Forecaster H A Downs predicted temperatures would fall for states east of the Alleghenies but avoid the cold wave’s worst. Readings rose from the Rockies to Pennsylvania.
In Des Moines AP report members of the Republican legislature voted to return the secession flag to Alabama and proposed a $250 appropriation to send a delegation with it. They also voted to meet Monday despite Abraham Lincoln's birthday being observed as a holiday by banks and other institutions.
Health officials said influenza cases are rising sharply in Illinois with Chicago showing a mild outbreak so far. Dr. Robert A. Black of the Chicago board of health cautioned that unless virulence increases, school closures should not be necessary.
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