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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1937
Page
59
City inspector notes rising housing demand in Cedar Rapids as national trends push up 1937 construction. FHA financing and low mortgage rates forecast a sharp upturn, with 1937 expected to top 1936 by about 40 percent, aided by a steady mortgage money supply.
McIntyre Construction company builds a colonial style bungalow of cinder block and brick finished in white with oak floors and a large fireplace. It features cross ventilation vast closets and a lighted garage with storm windows and possible two upper rooms. interior finished in true colonial.
Metin Drs Goods company 225 Second Avenue SE remodel commercial fee 230 Cerpate 1138 North Street SF remodel commercial 259 Mos Pinnes 1440 Bover Avenue SF reroof dwelling Peter Bachkes 217 Tenth Avenue listed with permit actions and locations.
The Linn County Abstract Company reports conveyances and mortgages recorded in Linn County from Jan 8 to Jan 14, with a year earlier comparison. Mortgages totaled 19 this period. 17 conveyances. Mortgage aggregate $93,528. last year $75,980.
The article links winter respiratory illnesses to dry heated indoor air and outlines four factors: temperature control humidifying ventilating and air cleaning. It notes moisture loss as heat increases and shows inflation in pneumonia and influenza in February, with humidity and air circulation as key health drivers.
The Keswick post master reports the first new residence built in Keswick since 1923 is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Brady and their daughter Rita. The single story Colonial style house sits in the west part of town and features a vestibule living room kitchenette two bedrooms bath full basement hot air furnace hot and cold water gas kitchen range built in cupboards a medicine cabinet clothes chute Venetian blinds oak floors white walls green trimmings and green fireproof shingles.
A survey of upcoming garden novelties featuring Veronica Blue Spire a deep blue perennial, Mount Everest and Silver Sheen asters, Aster Adorable, Helenium Chippersfield Orange, Gypsophila Rosenschlier pink baby’s breath, Phlox Tigress, Shasta daisies including S Daisy Chiffon and Esther Reed, plus notes on the Canada trans-Continental air route and its spring completion.
John A. Limback of Limback Lumber returned from Chicago after a one day conference with about 500 builders from the Midwest. Arthur Hood of Johns Manville outlined a Housing Guild program to unite architects lenders contractors and dealers in one local center. The event featured a preview of Johns Manville’s talking picture The House That Ann Built and a Palm er House banquet headlined by Johns Manville president Lewis H. Brown of Creston Iowa.
Directory snippet lists Hawkeye Lumber and Coal Co Midland Mortgage Co Morris Sanford Co Montgomery Ward Perpetual Savings and Loan Assn Cinder Block and Material Co Cedar Rapids Fuel reflecting local business listings and affiliations.
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