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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 18, 1940

Page

13

Real Estate Ads with Wide Variety of Homes and Mending Goods

A cluttered classified page lists homes for sale and rent in Marion and nearby areas, plus used appliances, sewing machines, pianos, radios, and furniture. It includes offers for garages, furnished and unfurnished apartments, and business equipment, with contact numbers and brief conditions.

Numerous Vernon Heights homes on the market

Real estate ads describe Vernon Heights properties for sale and rent including 4 room and bath down with 2 up, large basements, garages, and 50 foot lots. Listings show prices from 3 850 to 12 000 with cash and flexible terms, plus other city homes and plots. Deals are advertised by Tait Wagner Co Floyd Knapp J P Conway Co and others. A Fairfax Cedar Rapids marriage notice is also noted.

Oakland Ave Beacom Ee Arete Eae Cenamentin Geo. P. Witwer Vernon Heights W. J. Conway & CO 2Nd St Uptown Real Estate CO Country Club A. A. Doole & CO Mr. Stephen St. SE Franklin-Arthur Toms D Ave Bever Ave J. Mac Kimes Ee & Birch Ave Henry Ely & Co Lth Rock Road Center Point Road E. Collard & CO Albert Doyle Cue Toons Iowa Prochaska Reais Ian

Farm and horse market ads and real estate in Cedar Rapids area

Local want ads promote tractors from Sears Ward's Montgomery Ward Farm Store and LUDE Auto Co listing a 1940 Ford display. Also offers 9021 acreage near Marion, Vega farms in Shellsburg, and multiple livestock for sale including purebred Guernsey, Duroc Jersey, and horses. Real estate notes include 103 acres near Shellsburg for 4500 and 80 to 160 acre farms near Mt Vernon and PATTEN & CO listings.

Mexico Shower Oak FA MARION _BLVD Cedar Rapids Rock Road W. Shellsburg Zack McArthur Fairfax Farrow F. O. Evens Palo Briggs-Stratton Rapid Specialty Co C.S.P Bartunek’s Pharmacy Guernsey David Mottinger Covington Duroc Jersey Bert Miller John Deere Joseph Kushner & Co 2Nd St. SE Gardner Rowley Arles Wiedow Deep River Iowa Arling Stein Aldane Farm Marion Starry Northwest Whittier Patek John Bradley Iverside Oe Rapids Horse Packing Co Estereville Topeks Kan Mt. Vernon

Natty Garb Almost Costs Davies Seat At Speakers Table

In Palm Beach Texas Davies, the secretary of state’s aide and former ambassador to Russia and Belgium, arrived at a democratic rally dinner in a top hat and silk cape. Attendants mistook him for an entertainer and tried to send him to the stage door before a colleague clarified his identity.

Palm Beach Fla INS Joseph E. Davies Department of State Russia Belgium Davies Tailors’ Association United States Hull

Two Artists And Makeup Man Will Pick Iowa Beauties

IOWA CITY: Martha Lois Koch announces a panel of judges for the Hawk Eye beauty contest. George Petty, McClel land Barclay, and Peree Westmore will select the campus six loveliest coeds, with results revealed April 26 at the junior prom.

Iowa City University of Iowa Miss Koch Petty Esquire Barclay Westmore Hollywood

Paul Leyssac Speaks At Mt Vernon Tuesday

Mt Vernon author and lecturer Paul Leyssac will present Meet the New Andersen a program of satirical tales from It’s Perfectly True and Other Stories Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the Cornell chapel. He is internationally known for translations readings and Andersen themed work.

Mount Vernon Paul Leyssac Hans Andersen

Stage Roles Include Tempest Braithwaite and Matthews

The cast lists Dame Marie Tempest Lilian Braithwaite Eva Le Gallienne Anne Neagle and Jessie Matthews in prominent roles. The group of performers anchors a production likely drawing on ample star power and period proper nouns.

Dame Marie Tempest Lilian Braithwaite Eva le Gallienne Anne Neagle Jessie Matthews

Forecast Service May Curb Rooms And Slumps

Dean Chester A. Phillips of the University of Iowa argues that narrowing swings in the business cycle will come from more dependable forecasting indices fueled by new services from Federal Reserve, the commerce department, and United Business Service. He warns prosperity can falter when business interests lack clear data, urging careful appraisal of data influence on activity and wider use of improving indices to stabilize the economy.

Chester A. Phillips University of Iowa Commerce College Federal Reserve U. S. Department of Commerce United Business Service Dean Phillips

Comfort Loses License After Second Speeding Arrest

Des Moines AP reports Frank Comfort Jr., 16, had his driver's license suspended and paid $32 in fines after a second speeding arrest. Six hours earlier Judge C E Moore suspended a $17 fine from December 23, then Comfort received a new summons for driving 40 mph in a residential district.

Des Moines Frank Comfort, Jr C. E. Moore Comfort

Former Independence Resident Loughren Dies in Chicago Mass

James Francis Loughren a World War II veteran died of a heart attack while attending mass in a Chicago Catholic church. Funeral services will be held at St. John’s Catholic church in Independence on Monday or Tuesday depending on body arrival. He was born near Masonville, son of James and Margaret Loughren, and for 15 years worked as an accountant for the Chicago Tribune. Surviving sister Irene Loughren an office employee of the state hospital.

Independence James Francis Loughren Chicago St. John’s Catholic Church Mr. Loughren Masonville James Margaret Loughren The Chicago Tribune Irene Loughren State Hospital

Turtle Back Rock Dragged Up Mountain by Teams in Pineville

In Pineville Kentucky the Turtle Back Rock is chained to the mountainside requiring multiple male teams to drag the massive boulder up the slope, illustrating a local effort to move the rock from its origin.

Turtle Back Pineville

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