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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1944
Page
15
A jumble of sale items and notices lists baby buggy pieces rope gas range rug coal range bed dresser and musical instruments with prices. Wording includes requests for cash buyers and a few personal items like a revolver and household goods. Locations mention Cedar Rapids Iowa and box numbers for responses.
Local notices advertise a jan 19 farm service event at the armory with John Deere dealers offering prompt removal stock free. Cedar Rapids listings include farm tools electrolux cleaners lumber and tractor repair, tire stock and insulation as well as coal and implement dealers and hay and straw sales.
Wanted for immediate rental a tast apartment or housekeeping room. Call Metrachta at Wilk & Co after 1 30 p m daily for details and free consultation.
Classified real estate notices describe rooms for rent and wanted arrangements, including a one year lease for a middle aged couple with a small child and partially furnished apartments. Listings detail 5 bungalow offers, 3 bedroom homes, updates like insulated attics, automatic furnaces, and terms such as owner financing or easy terms.
Classified property notices show farms, bungalows, and plots for sale near Edgewood, Park Avenue, Bowling Street, and 50th Street NE. Listings include acres, rooms, garages, and price ranges from 2 000 to 8 000 with several trades and terms offered. Broker names like Rice Gustafson Co and Clyde Randolph appear amid contact numbers.
Real estate ads urge calls to multiple agents for buying selling or listing homes and acreages. Firms named include Fred E Co Bedell Nissen Olson Briney Bolton and others offering home ownership help and cash contracts.
Degree day data show 1944 season to date matching last year and 50.5 percent below a normal heating season. Meat and processed foods rationing details cover brown stamps in book No. 3 and green stamps in book 4. Gasoline coupons Nos. 9 and air stamps relate to limited fuel, with inspection deadlines for vehicles and six month checks for book No. 3 holders. War price clerk Linn county office details provided.
Dr. Harry S. May Midwest director of the Zionist Organization of America will address Cedar Rapids Hadassah groups and Zionist Organization of America at Temple Judah at 8 p.m. Tuesday. A Youth Aliyah film They Live Again narrated by Paul Muni will follow, depicting 14,000 children rescued by Youth Aliyah.
Opportunities for training to fill vacancies as junior weather observers with the U S department of commerce were announced by the U S civil service commission Saturday. Women are preferred, but men not acceptable for military service who can meet the physical requirements will be accepted. Applicants must be at least 17 years of age and persons under 30 are desired. During the training period, trainees will receive 1440 per year plus overtime.
E M Hosman director of the University of Omaha school of adult education graduates 17 in a 10 hour four weeks course. The program trains college educated ushers with lapel boutonnieres and aims to meet social problems facing churches after the war. Next fall the course will be repeated and expanded.
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