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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1936
Page
15
A busy sale page advertises a White Elephant Annual Clearance with deep discounts on shoes suits hats dresses and coats plus many odds and ends. Also listed are auction items including furniture pianos antqiues and tools with various contact addresses and phone numbers for bidding and pickup.
Monthly July and August promotions push new Farmalls with an August profit sharing plan. Includes Red and Grey Farmalls arriving, no interest until 1937 with small cash payment. Dealers in Mechanicville Iowa Floyd Spear Stanwood Kings Coal & Implement Co and others advertise used tractors mills threshers hay balers and farm gear.
Financial notice seeks firms or persons for national distribution and manufacturing of a metal product with endorsements from Home Economics and Good Housekeeping. Includes Cedar Rapids Iowa address, $300 grocery stock, 18 months fixtures, quick action urged. Also offers state rights to wholesale a product and real estate investment guarantees with 5 percent net.
Classified housing notice listing numerous rooms for rent in various locations with amenities and contact numbers. Includes front rooms, housekeeping rooms, furnished and unfurnished apartments, and several houses for rent in multiple neighborhoods, with weekly or monthly rates and telephone contacts.
Multiple short rental ads seek unfurnished or furnished rooms and small houses. Requests include 3 room apartment with private bath, large unfurnished house for rooming use, 6 or 7 room furnished house by September 1, elderly private home room, and two lower unfurnished rooms near Phy. Hse. Contact via phone numbers and box references.
Real estate ads describe farms and acreages near Cedar Rapids Cedar Valley and Grinnell. Listings include 240 acres at 75 per acre 160 acres at 130 per acre 160 acres northwest of Cedar Rapids at 100 per acre and 80 acres near Alburnett with tiled land. Also brick bungalow homes and 2 story houses with terms available. Various contact details and managers listed.
In Franklin school district a brand new two story home offers four bedrooms, large living room with fireplace, dinette, tile bath, attic, rock wool insulation, and expansive landscaping. Priced near 3 450 to 5 450 with small down payments and monthly balances. contact Mr. Buser for viewing.
Major John P. Wilson a 60 year old U S Army retiree died from a self inflicted gunshot wound observed in a formal military reporting style. Deputy Coroner John Angell noted eight notes found near his body including a message to the adjutant general of the army stating death by self. Wilson a native of Wheeling West Virginia retired after World War I was found in his club room.
In Troy New York a county judge ruled a Sand Lake farmer must pay for a cow that died ten days after his purchase. The judge overruled a rural court and noted the animal’s death underscored life’s uncertainty for livestock.
A 20 mile long rock art site in Sand Canyon along the Panamint range is being studied by scientists after an expedition led by William Rocque of Los Angeles returned with photographs. The walls show crude chisel marks with images of ceremonial figures and antelopes, dating perhaps 2000 years.
William McGovern, father of the Rev William L. McGovern, former assistant pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Cedar Rapids, died Saturday at his daughter Mrs John Keane’s Dunkerton home. Funeral Monday at 10 from Matt McGovern home in Jesup, with Rev William McGovern celebrating the requiem. An unrelated science line about elephants and oysters appears in text.
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