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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jul 17, 1955

Page

3

New Shingles on Sides Help Insulate Old Frame Houses

Instructional guide by J Ralph Dalzell explains insulating existing exterior frame walls with new shingles. It details removing old siding, nailing, and installing shingle backers and shingles to fit around windows and doors, enabling insulation and a fresh exterior with modest expense.

J. Ralph Dalzell

Wall painting technique and shellac coloring methods

Use semi circular brush strokes for walls and vertical strokes near openings within six inches of frames, then finish with long steady strokes. Shellac can be tinted any shade by dissolving aniline dyes in alcohol, straining, and slowly adding the dye solution to shellac until the desired color is reached.

Cedar Rapids Building Permits List Largest Additions

A long list details Cedar Rapids building permits including Dewey and Army Chemical adding an industrial building at 1123 Wilson Ave SW for 85000 dollars and Olivet Presbyterian Church adding space at 237 Tenth St NW for 45000 dollars. The ledger covers numerous new dwellings, garages, breezeways, remodels, reroofs, and foundations across multiple streets and neighborhoods.

Dewey and Army Chemical Company Wilson Avenue Warren L. Wagner Eighth Avenue

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Backer DU Pont 3Rd Avenue Eye Ave Will Ste Iagger i Busio Averie V. Wee. Fume Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Paints Electric Motors Company Cedar Rapids Robert D. Cram Thirty-third Street H. J. Bjornsen Staubcourt Lawrence E. Seifert Eighth Street Kenneth Charipar New Dwell Ing Sunset Court Carl M Helen Brietske D Avenue NW Joe Stejskal Circle Drive Harold Leaven D Avenue John L. Craft Twentieth Avenue Immaculate Conception Church Fourth Avenue James Raftis Twelfth Street William J. Takach B Avenue George W. Riedel Outlook Drive Sam Hill Fifteenth Avenue Forrest W. Martz Thirty-fourth Street Gene Fries Seely Avenue Francis Oehlert Daniels Street Warren Y. Wagner E. L. Dieman B Avenue NW Clyde Miller Eleventh Street NW Eugene Hunt High Drive Norman Staub Thirty-fifth Street Drive John R. Bousek, Jr Fifteenth Street Clark Oil Company Center Point Road Harold Arnold A Avenue Earl Wolvers Linwood Street Godfrey Blazek L Street E. F. Vorba C. D. Wiley Third Street John D. Smith Forty-first Street J. W. Engledon Thirty-second Street Leota Dean Fourteenth Street Josephine Miska C Avenue Emil Klumpar D Street L. J. Nilles Grande Avenue Walter Homsey First Avenue Gerald Bowers Twentyfourth Avenue Edwin Martinson Wency Gatto Sixteenth Avenue Charles A. Smith A. A. Sindelar Nineteenth Street Onisim Redunowieg Fourteenth Avenue Jerry Dytert Twenty-third Street Carl Krebs Greenhouse Eighteenth Avenue O. E. Herriott Frances B. Tresnak C Street Frank J. Kosek Lumir Pfeifer Eleventh Street F. A. Kula K Street Walter J. Barngrover Bever Avenue John Schone J. H. Mahnke Bernadette Peterson Sixth Avenue E. J. Berry New Breezeway Oscar Anderson G Avenue Paul H. Darling Thirty-sixth Street Jim Sramek E Avenue Mrs. S. Beltz Seventeenth Street Earl Thomas Jim Taylor M. B. Geesey Dot Dill Memorial Drive Delia Convey Wesley A. Krejci Tenth Street Fred Shaver Third Avenue Owen T. Strickel Belmont Parkway Joe Musel Carrie Balik Sixth Street Loran Jones Twenty-second Avenue Donald Sulhoff F Avenue Fred G. Meissner Twenty-first Avenue Verna Biiney F. S. Mitvalsky and Company Second Street Fred L. Cizek Lawrence Kelly C. A. Seifer Lumir Zobac Nineteenth Avenue Fred Kephart Fifth Avenue D. Wymore Pwenty Robert Fernandez Dial Cedar Rapids Area Cy" Brown 2Nd Avenue SION Marion P. Russo H Avenue Avas Pit Ia Quality Furnace and Sheet Metal CO ST. N.E Rummells Electric Chas. W. Boegel, Jr the Hedges CO Dows Bldg Central Roofing & Insulation Co M. W. Freese Robins Iowa Klinger’s Lep Klinger Levaly North Star Lakewood Metropolitan Capp-Homes Court Dept. CA Des Moines Carl Miller Ote Wels 1St Ave
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