Iowa Electric Light and Power marks 50th anniversary in 1932
The Iowa Electric Light and Power company celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1932. From a $12,000 start in 1882 with two employees in a barn, the firm grew to eight steam plants totaling 55 175 kilowatts, five oil engine plants, and a 1931 gross income of $5 261 362.29 serving 49 075 customers in 128 towns with holdings valued at $34 547 527.73.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Barnum and Bailey
First
Second Streets
C. G. Greene
W. J. Greene
D Avenue
Sixth Street
Sutherland Dows
Yale
Col
W. G Dows
Mr. Dows
F C. Chambers
Marion Light, Heat and Power Company
Tama and Toledo Electric Company
Tama and Toledo Railway Company
Cedar Rapids Company
Marshalltown Light, Power and Railway Company
Boone Light and Railway Company
Jefferson Light Company
Mount Vernon Company
Iowa
Crandie
Iowa City
Boone
Perry
Grand Junction
Jefferson
Anamosa
DeWitt
Marengo
Lone Tree
Manchester
Maquoketa
Fairfield
Guthrie Center
Efficient Gazette Carrier Force Expands to 163 Pupils
The Cedar Rapids and Marion circulation team of The Gazette has grown from three carriers in 1883 to 163 in 1933 under Leon Dorlan. The paper highlights delivery efficiency, sub-stations in five city zones, and a shift to weekly pay with route-based performance and a kicks system to ensure timely doorstep delivery.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Gazette
Leon Dorlan
Cedar Rapids and Marion
Gazette Company
W. C. Benesh
Benesh
Avenue W
Montteur
Night Custodian Recall and Long List of Residents
The Gazette notes William Garrison remains on duty at night in the building and recalls a past event when police trapped an armed burglar in the basement of the adjacent American Express company. The record then lists numerous names and addresses in the area.
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Gazette
William Garrison
American Express Company
Garrison
Local Addresses Listed In Incomplete Directory
A jumble of street addresses and names appears, including 618 Fifth Street NW, 2010 Second Street SW, 85 Twenty first Avenue W, 1705 H Street SW, and 900 Sixth Avenue. Other entries include Charles Stastny, Edward Rocarek, Jerry Holecek, Aldrich Pavlicek, Eisner Womacka, Lee Zavaral, Thomas Hickey, Fred Phillips, Keith Cochran, and Tom Goodfellow.
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Tue
Charles Youtsey
Seventh Street
Dick Thompson
Crescent Street
Bob McHugh
B Avenue
Hubert Gallagher
Third Street
Quentin DeNio
Fourth Avenue
Gus Picek
Nineteenth Avenue
Milroy Rock
Sixteenth Avenue
Everett Warren
L Street
Lawrence Meyers
Fifth Street
Leland Reynolds
E Avenue
Robert Sweltzer
Third Avenue
Dale Bowen
Sixteenth Street
Myron Chapin
First Avenue
Walter Rose
Eleventh Street
Bob Buchan
Second Avenue
Bob Leedom
G Avenue
Emil Klumpar
D Street
Harold Krogh
Leo Sears
F Avenue
Jack McEachron
Louis Kudina
Second Street
Charles Stastny
Twenty-first Avenue
Edward Rocarek
H Street
Jerry Holecek
Frank Elias
Aldrich Pavlicek
Thirtieth
Forest Drive
Eisner C. Womacka
Twelfth Avenue
Lee Zavaral
Tenth Street
Thomas Hickey
Sixth Avenue
Fred Phillips
Keith Cochran
E Avenue E
Tom Goodfellow
Pioneer Greene a Cedar Rapids figure in city and business history
C G Greene of 714 First avenue E and John Ely of 2222 First avenue E, Cedar Rapids natives, were Princeton freshmen who rowed in the 1874 Saratoga Lake regatta. Greene, son of Judge George Greene, became a long time civic leader, trustee of Coe College, and hospital board secretary, with a life intertwined in Cedar Rapids development.
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Cedar Rapids
Second Street
Greene’s
Opera House
James E. Hamilton
Merchants National Bank
Mr. Smith
W. G. Dows
State of
Iowa
Princeton
Saratoga Lake
N. Y
Yale
Brown
Co. G
Greene
George Greene
Davenport
David D. Owen
Supreme Court
Dubuque
Miner's Express
Masonic Lodge
J. J. Dyer
Star Wagon Works
Cedar Rapids Oil and Lint Works
Cedar Rapids Water Power Company
Republic Life Insurance Company
Cedar Rapids Mill Company
Williams Reaper Company
Oak Hill Cemetery Association
Coe
Kingston
Cedar River
Center Point
McLeod Springs
Judge Greene
Ely
Edwards Place
Stockbridge
Mass
G. C. Deaver
Deaver
Coe College
St. Luke's Hospital
Y M C A History Highlights Sixty Five Years In Cedar Rapids
A look back at the Cedar Rapids Young Men’s Christian Association founded in late 1867 and chartered in 1868. The article traces early leadership, quarters, and the evolution to the present citywide program, with key figures, buildings, boards, membership, and annual reach.
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Cedar Rapids
L. Davis
J. C. May
T. M. Parson
J. G. Graves
P. M. Gordon
J. F. Ely
A.C. Churchill
A. Sinclair Smith
Tomlinson Block
H. J. Smead
Y.M.C.A
First Avenue
First Street
Fifth Street E
Joe Watson
W. F. Hunting
A. M. Jayne
C. T. Brown
Association
Greek immigrant Paul Costas rises to head Cedar Rapids cafeteria
Paul Costas, who arrived in the United States at 16 from Greece, invested over $50,000 in the Harmony cafeteria in Cedar Rapids on October 22. He worked from soda fountains in Chicago to running eateries in Streator and Cedar Rapids, praising the city as “Paradise.”
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Codee Rapids
Paul Costas
United States
Greece
Harmony
Street SE
Mr. Se Bug
United
Louis
Chicago
Streator
Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue
Virginia
Cedar Rapeids
Costas
Unclear text fragment about bottle timing and seals
Fragmentary lines mention bottles and timing but lack coherent details or identifiable entities. Unable to derive a clear event, dates, or involved organizations from the readable text.
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Local Light CO
The
Republican
Organizaon
Kenwood
Fox’s
Fifteenth Street
Bredl's
Mount Vernon Avenue
Clark's
Eighth Avenue
Sykes Shoe
Jerry Tichy
Mallory Street
Milo Parizek
Fruitland Boulevard
Robert McLaughlin
Milton Eye
Victor Hahn
Jean Hutchcroft
Circle Drive
Dale Kiicksee
Seventh Avenue
Bob Winchell
Wendl Votroubek
Ninth Avenue
Charles Blazek
C Street
Cecil St. Germaine
Eighteenth Avenue
John Thompson
Arnold Zimmerman
Sydney Smith
Bob Mocs
Johnson Avenue
George W Nelson
Bever Avenue
Richard Tallman
Charles Mills
Arnold Garrett
Third Avenue E
B. Wishniewsky
Leo Wilson
John Wright
Oakland Avenue
Kenneth Cochran
Charles Gillen
Richard Bell
Billy Curren
Bob Rennekamp
First Avenue E
Bob Clark
B Avenue E
Glen Hruska
Bever
Charles McKim
Fifth Avenue E
William Cornish
Thirteenth Street
Robert Yates
Seventh Avenue E
Don Anderson
Grande Avenue
Elmer Pycha
Robert Gouldin
Fourth Avenue E
Roger Conrad
Mkenneth Barger
A Avenue E
Robert Nemec
Fourteenth Street
Dick Wilson
Dick Gates
Eugene Rennekamp
Ed Stookey
John Dvorak
Fourth Street
Charles Rorabaugh
Billie Diehl
Gray Wilson
Nineteenth Street
William Leefers
Second Avenue E
Ralph Schindler
Seventh Avenue F
Thomas Nolan
Fighteenth Street
Chester Cowden
Bert Welch
Grovecourt
Joe Kun
Kenneth Wittkop
Donald Jones
Ellis Boulevard
Ward Bowers
Frank Mary
Twentieth Avenue
Jack Gurren
Robert Fitzpatrick
Eighth Street
Floyd Ellis
Jack Augustine
Andy Smith
Carl Sadilek
Ralph Krska
Fifth Avenue
Marcene Ratfus
Harry Mullin
Donald Griffin
Hinkley Avenue
Billy Shanahan
J Avenue
Elmer Davis
6Th Street
Eddie Sullivan
A Avenue
Louis Picek
Leo Barry
Ninth Street
John Kitch
Earl Linkenback
Ward Long
Dale Morningstar
Wayne Woodford
Donald Spillman
N Street
Bob Davis
Robert DeLay
Walter Kelly
Billie Sleight
Allen Thompson
James Wagner
Ernest Vanous
Eighth Ave
John Threlkeld
William Goyer
Lester Parizek
Billy Gough
Mount Vernon Road
Donald Mann
Bluff View
Joseph Rozek
Rockford Road
Buster Hutchcroft
William Groesgen
Wauconia Road
Hugh Rick
Thirty-fourth Street
Marvin Davidson
Minerva Terwilliger
Billy Condon
Thirty-fifth Street
Kenneth Lambert
Bud Challis
G. Davidson
Billy Norris
Twenty-fourth Street
Jack Herkner
Aloysius Cole
Nathan Rick
Thirty Fifth Street
Robert Titus
James Vernon
Twelfth Street
Maynard Clark
Crandall Weaver
Eugene Newlan
Seventeenth Street
Sergie Fleisher
Twenty-second Street
Harry Pinch
Edward Ferreter
Neil Sills
Cedar Park
Allen Edwards
Garland Ruundquist
Robert Kennedy
Ruth McCune
Billy Campbell
DeVere Fehr
Dar Rapids Water Works
Mount Mercy Junior College
Academy
Seventeenth
Eighteenth Streets
Daniel Coe
First Presbyterian Church
Miller Rubber Products Company (Incorporated
Axnon, Onto
Miller Tires
Dial
Auto & Tire
Ss. E. Cor. 2Nd Ave
St. St
Y.M.C. A
Haa
Itreet
Welfare Council
Cedar Rape
Ids
U. S
Hert
M. Nandell
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Nandell & Hamlin