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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1938
Page
5
Several multiple unit and single family listings dominate the page. Properties include lower flats, first floor and second floor apartments with private entrances, baths, kitchens, and furnaces. several with garages and heat. Prices range from monthly rents around 35 to 50 dollars and several sales offers note 4 to 6 room homes with terms and locations near West and East sides.
Several bargain lots offered by Henry S. Ely & Co and agents. Properties include 70x187 on Blake and Forest Drive, 860x140 L Street and 20th Ave SW, a 26th Street country club height lot, and cemetery plots at Cedar Memorial Park. Contacts include Joseph Kushner and A G Bauder with phone-style inquiries.
Trade and exchange notices from Cedar Rapids area papers describe multiple business and property exchanges. Items include farms, filling stations, sandwich shops, cafes with buildings, butcher shops, multiunit houses, Ford garages, general stores with stock and elevators, and hardware stock exchanges. Also listed are 20 acres near Mt. Vernon Road, a high quality bungalow trade, a two story six room house exchange, a Cedar Rapids income property, and 300 acres of Iowa land offered for a drug business interest. Numerous contact references and box numbers appear throughout.
Real estate ads seek owners to sell 7 or 8 room homes with close-in location and reasonable terms. Additional box notices request a good cast side lot of 60 feet or more with full particulars. Listings offered by Fred E. Collard & Co for sale exchange or rent.
Officials in Mexico City blamed followers of former General Saturnino Cedillo for a dynamite blast on the San Luis Tampico line near San Luis Potosi, killing two and wounding 19. The attack marked a fourth such incident since Cedillo’s rebellion began last May. authorities reported scattered Cedillo followers and Cedillo himself in the area. Cavalry scoured the hills but found no rebels.
The will of 94 year old New Orleans philanthropist Mrs Stanley Thomas was probated in district court revealing a $1000 gift to movie actor John Carroll. The estate valued at $150000 goes mostly to friends and institutions.
Spanish government armies tightened their hold on the west bank of the Ebro on day six of the Catalan offensive. The central column stalled at Gan desa while the right and left wings advanced, and Falset residents were evacuated after air raids damaged 180 buildings and caused casualties.
In Washington Senator Elmer Thomas argues for strong federal reach over money and prices. He calls for an agency to stabilize the dollar and for control of farm prices and consumer costs to prevent cross purposes, citing a path to recovery through a cheaper dollar and coordinated policy.
President Roosevelt designates Wilbur J. Carr to invite the International Statistical Institute to meet in Washington next year. The piece imagines a week of statistical study from treasury figures to agricultural data, commerce trends, standards measurements, fisheries, and social security records.
In Dothan Alabama Cupid wins as coach Hugh Wynn and student Mary Grubbs marry after a school controversy over dating. Wynn, ousted for alleged dating student(s), denies it and asserts engagement. Students strike, parents back the couple, school closes, then reopens without Wynn reinstated.
Ernesto Lira, a nightlife figure in Prescott, was sentenced to 30 to 40 years for fatally beating Marcus Jay Lawrence, a wealthy former Washington DC socialite. No new trial or appeal was filed. Lira expressed regret, claiming he attacked after finding Lawrence with his common law wife Odessa Webb.
Dr William Brady discusses pores as skin openings for sweat and oil glands, debunking the idea of absorption through the skin. He cites physiology, criticizes physicians promoting transdermal absorption and critiques JAMA editorials and Macht's experiments as lacking proper controls and scientific rigor.
In Breslau a large crowd cheered Adolf Hitler after a fiery speech by Conrad Henlein Sudeten leader. Henlein declared leadership over Germans abroad claiming unity as one Reich one people one Fuehrer and praised Hitler for peaceful reconstruction and German unity. He urged loyalty from Germans living outside the border.
Western Germany designated several Rhenish districts on Saturday as prohibited areas. Visitors must carry full identification or passports, with zones along the Rhine in Baden and parts of Prussia Württemberg and Hessen included. Officials call the move a safeguard against espionage amid intensified fortification reports.
A collage of classifieds offers free plow disc or cultivator with a tractor, various dairy equipment, milk goats and cows from multiple sellers, chickens and pigs, horses, and blooded goats. Listings include Betty Dean Marion addresses, Melotte separators, Hay baler, and ten acres of improved soil land for $6,000 with exchange options.
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