FOR RENT SLEEPING ROOMS WITH OR WITHOUT BOARD
Sleeping rooms with board and separate furnished options advertised on various streets including Ave SE and Ave NW. Several listings offer first floor, rear, or front rooms with both furnished and unfurnished choices, rates often weekly or monthly. References and utilities sometimes included. some ads note air conditioning, baths, heat, and near public transit or landmarks.
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Ted Ave
SD St
Sarre Fe
Garace
Grand View
Bedell Nissen CO
3Rd Ave
Weaver
Meirate
Pala di Beyer Ave
Alteal
Lve
Fifth Ave
Apis
Sid
Mets
5Th Ave
Aime
Homes For Sale See Ellis Boulevard Real Estate Ad
Real estate ad notes several homes for sale on Ellis Boulevard with varied features. Mentions three bedroom houses, modern interiors, front porches, garages, and priced entries with down payment options. Several agencies and contact numbers listed for inquiries.
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Ellis Boulevard
Sagalons
Foualge
The
Hedges Co
Buser
Former Polk County deputy auditor gets seven year sentence
Des Moines AP reports Lyle E. Gemricher a 33 year old former Polk County deputy auditor pled guilty to grand larceny and obtaining money by false pretenses. Judge John J Halloran gave seven years on the false pretense count and five years for grand larceny to run concurrently. He admitted receiving about 1700 by cashing 23 warrants the county treasury failed to cancel. Treasurer Allen Munn said Gemricher cashed the warrants at a gambling place.
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DES Moines
Lyle E. Gemricher
Polk County
John J. Halloran
Carl Burkman
Allen Munn
Gemricher
Least Schooled Legislator Gets Prominent Post
DES MOINES Iowa Rep Gustave Alesch Marcus the least schooled legislator and now chair of the appropriations committee declares he is the most educated man by experience saying he never attended school a day in his life and came from Germany at 22 unable to speak English. He credits experience with teaching him about Iowa farmers and says his education came from work and hardship.
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Des Moines
INS
Appropriations Committee
Gustave Alesch
Marcus
Iowa
Germany
House prepares to pass giant relief bill in stalled push
Washington AP The House Appropriations Committee prepared to approve a $90 million deficiency bill to fund WPA and other relief programs at the urging of President Roosevelt. The measure, enlarged with non relief items, would total about $650 million for WPA to June 30 plus $80 million for drought relief and $95 million for CCC through year end. Hopkin s warns unemployment will persist despite higher hiring, and hearings to be released Monday are expected to show relief spending will exceed last year.
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Washington
INS
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
CCC
House
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Congress
Hopkins
Linn Motor Licenses Exceeding 1936 Counts for 1937
County Treasurer Milo Sedlacek reports 1937 motor vehicle licenses surpass 1936 by Jan 23. Through Saturday 9,262 auto and 1,201 truck plates issued, vs 9,122 and 1,161 a year earlier. $169,024 in 1937 license fees since Dec 1. 18,418 transfers in 1936. Penalty of one dollar per month starts Feb 1. owners storing cars must surrender 1936 plates before Feb 1.
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Milo Sedlacek
Charles Supple
Trea Urer
Trolley Wire Break Halts Cedar Rapids Cars on Central Circuit
A trolley wire break on First avenue at First street east halted Cedar Rapids and Marion City railway street cars on the central circuit for 18 minutes Saturday afternoon. Power was lost as the wire struck the rails. The failure at 1 52 pm was blamed on a flaw in the wire and affected downtown and other city routes.
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Cedar Rapids and
Marion City Railway
First Avenue
First Street
Vinton Man Sentenced To Prison For Forgery
Vinton resident Deciat Bell. 23, sentenced to one to fifteen years at Fort Madison on uttering a forged instrument. He pled guilty before Judge L. J. Kirkland after passing three checks in Vinton Urbana and Garrison, all bearing the mayor’s name George M. Urice. Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Talbot of DeWitt were set today in N. F. McGinnis chapel. Helen Bissell Talbot born near Weston Oct 20 1843 married William H. Talbot in 1863, died recently. Installation of O. E. S. officers for 1937 held locally with Worthy Matron Vera Mogusson and others named.
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Vinton
Ray Bell
Fort Madison Penitentiary
L. J. Kirkland
Bell
George M. Urice
Urbana
Garrison
Dewitt
Helen Talbot
N. F. McGinnis
Leonard A. Spooner
First Congregational Church
Helen Bissell
Weston
William H. Talbot
Golden Star Chapter
To Demand Death For Robert Avery Alleged Murderer
Calhoun county Attorney A. J. Braginton said he will seek the death penalty for Robert Avery in the torture robbery murder of 84 year old John E. Parker, with nearly thirty witnesses planned for the upcoming Rockwell City trial. Marvin O'Shaughnessy, already serving a life term, did not testify, as he blamed Avery for the fatal blows.
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Rockwell
Calhoun County
A. J. Braginton
Robert Avery
John E. Parker
Rockwell City
Cluse
Braginton
Tonvier
Marvin O'Shaughnessy
Fort Madison
New Lead in Iowa Strawstack Murder Probe
Des Moines officers pursue a fresh lead in the Carlisle strawstack murder case involving Clarence Gift 37 of California. Paul Castelline and Sheriff Lewis Johnson went to Los Angeles to question Gift's brother Edgar while State Agent Jerry Woods probes angles in Iowa and Nebraska. Woods questioned Gift's mother at Sioux City and another brother in Nebraska as Akers seeks Esther residents linked to a Good Shepherd home in Omaha.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Clarence Gift
California
Carlisle
Jerry Woods
Nebraska
Woods
Gift
Sioux City
Akers
Esther
Good Shepherd
Omaha
Gitt
Towa
Wil
Omaha Charch
Noted Conductors To Appear In Iowa Music Conference
Special to The Gazette Iowa City in February will host a music teachers conference featuring three noted conductors George Dasch Harold Rachman and Max Krone They will lead high school instrumental and vocal groups and direct a large choir and a picked band during the February event
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
George Dasch
Chicago Little Symphony Orchestra
Harold Rachman
University of Chicago
Max Krone
Charg
Northwestern University
Krone
Dash
Rachoman
Ends Life After Losing His Way In Mountain Blizzard
In Quincy California a grim tale emerged as Kenneth Rosecrans died after getting lost in a Sierra blizzard while attempting to reach Johnsville from nine four miles away. Steve Siemson recovered the body, finding a bullet in the head and a revolver at the chest. He waited five days for roads to clear before bringing the body home to his wife and three children in Concord.
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Quincy
Calif
Ins
High Sierras
Steve Siemson
Kenneth Rosebin
Rosecrans
Johnsville
Rosecans
Siemion
Concord
Warn Farmers Of New Sales Racket In Iowa
DES MOINES AP Iowa authorities warned farmers against a new racket selling an extract claimed to be from hybrid seed corn. Salesmen tout it as increasing crop resistance to grasshoppers and chinch bugs at $12.50 a bottle. Officials noted the product appears tied to western Illinois and urged caution as none of the cited experts could confirm it for Minnesota Iowa or Illinois farmers.
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Des Moines
Iowagricultural
University of Illinois Farm Crops
Towa
Iowa
Illinois
Towans
Agriculture
Thomas L. Curran
H. D. Hughes
Farm Crops Department
Joe L
The
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Growers’ Association
C. T. Drake
Nels Urban
Tame Ager
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the Killian CO. Home
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First St. SE
Dial
Philco
General Electric
Hallerfest, Inc
Third Ave. SE
Work Standard Tire CO
AVENE
Saueemen
Tao Keradion
Sipprem Aetsary
Cathy Wiike
Sacany Bane
Ginsberg
HECK
Sraxpand Tire CO
Brabbit Taylor Music
Sonja Henle
Repter
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Mith
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Mort Blum
Iekory
SeHennery
Ison Sco
Ind
Bateais
Shana
White Eagle
OLDS
Centerville
Tom
Kentucky
Pocahontas
Home Coal Co
PHU
Hawkeye Lumber & Coal Co
Tom Bal Messinger and Son
Eke
Danny BetNtkeperichs
Hubbard
6Th Ave
Taylor Coal CO
Tennessee
Ajax Furnace
W. G. Block CO
Cedar Rapids Fuel CO
Soboda
Dorothy
Cohn Coal CO
C.o.d.eoal CO
4Th Ave
Dial Bissell
Beaver
Beaver Creek
Harco
Ives Frana Coal CO
Asn Co
Kutchera Coal Co
Purnace
Gaddis
St. SE
Kentucky Ring
Kino Coal
Ement CO
Blue Bird
Farmers Supply CO
Dial Sim Eclipse Fae
Climax
Cca Quality Wood & Coal YD
Spec E
Kesey Ng
Ia Coat
Black Chief Coal CO
Black Chief Farm
Boris Oka
Farmers Household Finance Corporation OF America
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AtEm Soeine St. Dial
Cedar Rapids Loan Company
Merchants Nail Bank
Mabe Wiitorns Moloney Corporation
mernddePatte
Reddit Shass Scond
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Soteateral Loan Service, Inc
Bolton
Morris
Collard & CO
BEVER
Dgar
Arthur
Harold A Pickerill Co
Renwood
Pebolton
Pune
Armur
Germi
B'Conway Co
Edward Arnold
William Hoover
Arnold
Hoover
Hollywood
Fursianed
Garane
Bee
Kaufman
Tow
Falon
Bex Federant
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Colle
Marith Ave
Sorber Lot
Caraue
TAT & Wagner CO
M. L. Kelly
Malcolm 'V
Bolton & CO
Tfield CO
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REAL
Doolittle & "Co
Cususifleston
Sontwer
de Patera
Linn Motor
Vera Mogusson
Laird Woods
Josephine Schinkloth
Raymond McClure
Sarah Brewer
Ortensa Woods
Anna Gonzalez
Luella Woods
Ada
Pearle Schultz
Ruth
Sophia’ Schultz
Elva Schultz
Martha
Maggie Harmon
Electa
Carrie Boyd
Elsie Voyt
Elizabeth” McClue
Mary Nowak
James 'McClure
Kathryn Cummings
Iowa Securities
Associated Press
Askeaaieck
Perry
Tncom
Booth
Bort Cement
Iowa Music Conference
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