Business Surmounts Flood Handicap Amid 1934 Strikes
Despite floods paralysing retail trade and power in 12 central states, overall business held its edge over the prior year. Commerce notes gains in many cities except flood areas like Cincinnati and Louisville where activity stalled. Labor strife at General Motors reduced auto output and buying power, while steel showed earnings strength and demand recovery.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Mississippi
Department of Commerce
Cincinnati
Louisville
General Motors
Cram’s
Cedar Rapids Plans New Police Station and Jail
Cedar Rapids officials unveil plans for a modern police headquarters and city jail designed by architect Charles Zalesky. The project aims for timely bid openings on February 24 with a contract potential March 2 and an $80,000 bond issue to fund construction. Demolition of the Madison school site on Second Avenue South West progresses, clearing the way for four-sided street access and future landscaping.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles Zalesky
Zalesky
Madison School
Second Avenue
Third Street
Heathel and Company
Produce Markets Chicago Produce Roundup
Chicago AP reports steady butter receipts at 5 701 with mixed prices for creamery, extras and firsts. Eggs receipts 10 145 steady with unchanged prices. Live poultry receipts three trucks steady with unchanged prices. Potatoes receipts 64 on track 270 with better sentiment, liberal supplies, demand improving for western stocks. Idaho russets U S No 1 3 05 3 30, Colorado Reds 3 10 3 35, Washington russets 2 90, Nebraska Bliss Triumphs 2 cwt, U S No 1 2 30 2 35, U S commercial 2 15 2 25. Texas weaker, Florida steady, Bliss Triumphs 1 80 per sack, street crates 2 00 to 2 15.
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Chicago
U. S
Idaho
Colorado
Washington
Nebraska Bliss
U.S
Texas
Florida
Bliss
Butter and Cheese Receipts Show Mixed Prices
New York AP dairy listings report butter receipts at 5 055 with 92 score creamery butter at 32 and 33 with no change in other prices. Cheese receipts total 196 715 with quiet demand while eggs receipts 29 996 show mixed color categories and stable prices for firsts seconds and refrigerators and other items. Dressed poultry demand remains slow and prices unchanged for both fresh and frozen.
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New York
Chicago Produce Futures Report
Chicago butter futures closed with February and March quotes and a November price. Egg futures ended with refrigerator standards and fresh graded firsts. Potato futures for Idaho russets March grade A at 3.60 per hundredweight.
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Chicago
Thompson Leads Nationally in Aetna Accident Dept
M M Thompson at 1013 Merchants National Bank building has topped all United States agents in the accident department of Aetna Life Insurance for the second year running. He led the company in personal production in 1935 and 1936 and has seven years of regionalaire status in the life division.
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M. M. Thompson
Merchants National Bank
United States
Aetna Life Insurance Company
Thompson
Accident Insurance Co raises pay for Detroit staff
The Standard Accident Insurance Co of Detroit announces a general 10 percent pay increase for its 1,200 employees. The boost, approved by president Charles C Bowen, is effective January 1, 1937, according to local claims manager L W Platt.
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Standard Accident Insurance Company of
Detroit, Mich
Charles C. Bowen
L. W. Platt
Better Homes DIRECTORY listing a Cedar Rapids area catalog
A directory snippet lists Hawkeye Lumber and Coal Co Limback Lumber Co M Cach Glass Co Sanford's Midland Mortgage Co Morris Sanford Co Montgomery Ward Cinder Block and Material Co Perpetual Savings and Loan Assn Cedar Rapids Fuel as local suppliers and services.
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Hawkeye Lumber and Coal Co
Limback Lumber Co
M. Cach Glass Co
Sanford’s. Midland Mortgage Co
Morris Sanford Co
Montgomery Ward
Cinder Block and Material Co
Perpetual Savings and Loan Assn
Cedar Rapids Fuel
Troy Laundry Completes Modernization At 214 First Street
Troy Laundry finishes a modernization program costing over 20000 dollars at the 214 First Street SW plant. New equipment includes two water softeners, modern dry cleaning presses, tumblers, hat and shirt presses, monel washers, and garment presses. The upgrade coincides with the company’s 33rd anniversary on February 4, marking growth from six to sixty five employees since 1904.
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Troy Laundry Company
First Street
Emil Pazdera
Troy
A. E. Chase
Mr. Chase
Troy Laundry History Traced Back to 1876 in Cedar Rapids
The article notes Cedar Rapids hosts the citys largest laundry with greater capacity since Mr Chase led the operation. The current Troy Laundry marks its 33rd anniversary on Feb 4, while a Troy Laundry in Cedar Rapids has operated since 1876 beginning at Eagle and Commercial streets run by The Misses Curtis and Brong.
Sugar market steady with mixed futures moves
New York sugar prices hold with raw sugar unchanged at 3.75 per cwt. May futures drift lower by 8 to 13 points, with May No. 3 at 2.68 and November at 2.59. Refined sugar unchanged at 5.00, with several contracts down 1 to 4 cents.
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New York
Demand for business property rises in major cities
The National Association of Realtors reports renewed demand boosting downtown rents in about three quarters of U S cities. Mortgage terms, rising land prices, and under supply of single family homes influence the market as new home and apartment construction stabilizes the upward trend.
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Chicago
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Minneapolis Flour Prices and Shipments Report
AP report from Minneapolis notes flour carload lots in 98 lb cotton sacks with family patents priced unchanged at 7.20 to 7.40 per barrel. Standard patents stay 7.10 to 7.30. Shipments reach 21 931 sacks with pure bran priced 32.50 to 33.00 and standard middlings 32.50 to 33.00.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Grain Prices and Receipts Report
AP report from Minneapolis shows grain receipts at 63 cars with price quotes for various wheat grades including No 1 heavy dark northern spring, No 1 dark northern spring, No 1 hard Montana, amber durum and red, along with corn No 3 yellow and oats No 3 white with bid ranges and percent changes.
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Minneapolis Grain
Minneapolis
Montana
Chicago Wheat Trends Upward Amid Export Hopes and Mills Buying
Chicago wheat futures show an overall rise as Liverpool quotes push prices higher and Winnipeg reports 400 000 bushels of export purchases. Mills bought, with reduced selling pressure. cash Wheat prices for No 2 to No 5 grades ranged around 1.04 to 1.10 per bushel and oats, soybeans, barley and lard prices were listed.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Winnipeg
Minneapolis
Linn County Real Estate And Mortgage Report
The Linn County Abstract Company tallies conveyances and mortgages in Linn County for Jan 22 to Jan 28. Five conveyances were recorded this period with mortgages totaling 74 505. Same week last year saw 39 conveyances and 21 mortgages totaling 65 200.
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Linn County Abstract Company
Linn County
SEI Orion NG
Lumbermen's Reserve to Open Cedar Rapids Branch
Lumbermen's Reserve Supply Co. plans a Cedar Rapids branch to serve eastern dealers. The Des Moines firm, in operation since 1930, will open February 1 at 1204 Ninth Street SW with E. Freitag named Cedar Rapids manager. Carload consignments arrive Feb 1–15. Bruce West and Company arranged the lease.
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Lumbermen’s Reserve Suppl Company
Des Moin
Cedar Rapids
Ninth Street
E. Freitag
Bruce West and Company
Permits Issued In The Last Week Local Blog
A week of issued permits lists multiple home and business projects. Notable items include George Plaugh remodeling a dwelling at 1539 Washington Avenue SE for 40 dollars and Williams and Hunting remodeling a commercial property at 445 First Street SW for 3 500 dollars.
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George Plaugh
Washington Avenue
George Farris
Tent Street
Hedges Company
W. J. Stolba
Reid-Way Corporation
John L. Taylor
Camburcourt
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Thomas E. Flanagan
Cinder Block and Material Company
Waukon
R. C. Bakkum
Accident Dept. of Insurance Co
Accident Insurance Co
Cinder Block & Material CO
Tenth Street
DIAL
Midland Mortgage Company
Better Homes Directory
Troy Laundry
Maryland
ED Soboda
Second Street
Barry Bros
Hawkeye
Home Loans
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Mson Brothers & Co
H. Owrey
Manational
T. Ies. Is
Real Estate and Mortgage Reports
Bulletin Issue Securities Service
Eeaaieaen
Illinois
Lumbermen’s Reserve Supply Co
Shortham
ABC
Dickinson Secretaria
Cedar Rapids Savings Ban Side
Eer
Mile Whipple Agency
Insurance and Bonds
American Trust
W.T. Sands
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