Lumber Yard Showcases Women Friendly Home Materials
A shopping tour at a lumber yard highlights affordable wall treatments and new building materials for home use. Demonstrations cover rubbed finish on plywood, asbestos flexboard for curved surfaces, tile like boards, hardboard screens, collapsible ping pong tops, log cabin siding, pressed cork like panels, and fireproof sidings including brick and composition options suitable for kitchens and baths.
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Bever Park
Home With Hall Breezeway in Cedar Rapids
A large elm on 527 Dunreath Drive NE inspired Charles and Mrs Norberg to build a white frame home with a wide gable and enclosed porch. The one story front features a front to back hall, living and dining rooms with a brick fireplace, and a back door near the bath and downstairs bedroom. An upstairs plan includes a square bedroom for Roy Norberg and a twin-bed room with a white red trimmed wash area.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles O. Norberg
Dunreath Drive
E. E. Reynolds
First Avenue E
Norbergs
Roy Norberg
Franklin High School
E. G. Dudek
England Taxed Soap Until 1853 Reform Ends Impost
England imposed a soap tax until 1853 when William E. Gladstone led a repeal ending the impost. The move reduced duties on household goods and aligned with broader fiscal reforms in mid nineteenth century Britain.
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England
Gladstone
Better Homes DIRECTORY Listing of Local Suppliers
Directory style notice listing Williams & Hunting Co. Economy Lumber Co. Home Lumber Co. Inc. Suburban Gas Co. Wisconsin Lumber Limback Lumber Co. Nagle-Eaton Lumber Co. Maresh Sheet Metal Wks. King's Crown Plaster Co. Cedar Rapids Gas Co.
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Williams & Hunting Co
Economy Lumber Co
Home Lumber Co., Inc
Suburban Gas Co
Wisconsin Lumber
Limback Lumber Co
Nagle-Eaton Lumber Co
Maresh Sheet Metal
King’s Crown Plaster Co
Cedar Rapids Gas Co
Spring Tonics and Home Furnishings For Cedar Rapids Home
A Cedar Rapids feature describes home improvements with a jaded vibe revived by color. It highlights a white kitchen with red accents, a sunlit layout, and future basement plans. It surveys draperies, upholstery in dregs of wine tones, and multi chair ensembles for living and dining rooms.
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Cedar Rapids
Pembroke
Hartenberger And Co Moves To West Side
Hartenberger and Company Inc takes a five year lease for a two story building at 720 First Avenue NW. The owner is Estella M. Chandler of 857 Sixteenth Street SE. The Hedges company arranged the rental for this firm, which specializes in modernizing interiors displays and signs.
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Hartenberger and Company, Inc
First Avenue NW
Estella M. Chandler
Sixteenth Street
Hedges Company
Third Street SE
Lightner Brothers win contract to enlarge Newmans fur vault
Lightner Brothers awarded the contract to enlarge the fur vault in the basement of Newmans store. Work was scheduled to begin early this week.
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Lightner Brothers
Newman's
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Lumber Yard
Hall
Naomi Doebel
Thompson Photo
Norberg
Queen Elizabeth
Elizabeth
First Street
Sahara
Atari
Cedar Rapids Fuel Co
6Th St. SW
Johns-Manville
Maresh
Sheet Metal Works
Seventeenth Street
Better Homes Directory
Hartenberger and Co
West Side
Cs Orl
Zonolite
17Th St. NE
Insulux
First Avenue
Wisconsin
DELCO
Andersen
Modean
Kee
Third Street
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