Roosevelt Hotel Embraces Wartime Dining and staffing shifts
The Roosevelt Hotel adapts to wartime constraints with rationing, extended meals, and healthier offerings while serving eight to twelve hundred guests daily. Staff adjustments include 27 of 117–125 employees in the armed forces and increased reliance on older workers and women. The Piccadilly tavern rises in popularity as Cedar Rapids locals seek wartime camaraderie.
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J. C. Kennedy
Roosevelt Hotel
Roosevelt
America
Kennedy
Hotel Roosevelt
Hitler
Piccadilly Tavern
Dick Roberts
Margo Blaney
the Grill
Arlene Finney
Pickwick Club
Irene Furman
House
John Reding
James D. Smith
Evelyn Buser
Violet Schmidt
Dale Slocum
Ann Durland
William Blackwell
Beulah Stevens
Robert Anderson
Roosevelt Grill
Picnic Sandwiches Taste Better With Co op Dairy Butter
An Iowa feature touts Co op butter from Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy as enhancing picnics and school lunches. It claims butter keeps sandwiches moist, improves vegetable flavor, and boosts appetite while noting the cooperative’s clean plant and farmer-led management by R L Stallman near Fairfax since 1925.
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Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy Company
Tenth Street SW
Co-op
Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy
Iowa
R. L. “Dick” Stallman
Fairfax
Draft boards reject many for nervous and mental disorders
The report states the largest single group rejected by draft boards consists of men with nervous and mental disorders, reflecting the era’s medical screening approach to conscription.
Bokorney's Radiator Service Promises Fresh Tractor Cores
A Cedar Rapids radiator shop touts fresh tractor cores after a new shipment. It advertises radiator repairs with a flush and notes better days for farmers who visit 210 Eighth Street SE for service.
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Bokorney
Eighth Street SE
Cedar Rapids
Bokorney’'s
Bokerney Radiator Service Faces Manpower Struggles
Jesse K. Schepple operates the Bokerney Radiator Service and notes the firm’s manpower troubles while urging motorists to schedule elaborate repairs by appointment. Radiators are scarce as critical metals go to wartime tools, and used models are in stock for cautious buyers.
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Bokerney
Jesse K. Schepple
Week's Vacation For Fox Garage Starting June 13
The Fox garage will close for a week from June 13 to June 21 to reward staff after long hours serving Cedar Rapids motorists. It will resume hours 7 am to 6 pm daily except Sundays, at 109 Fifteenth street NE, Cedar Rapids.
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Fox Garage
America
Cedar Rapids
Fifteenth Street
Pearl Harbor
Mary Drahos
Tru Art Engravers A Cedar Rapids Finest Plant
In Cedar Rapids the Tru-Art Engravers on Second Floor Severn Building is praised as a leading Midwest engraving plant. Despite wartime metal shortages the union shop produces high quality work from copper and zinc to color plates, with an art department and careful reproduction guidance.
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Cedar Rapids
Middle West
Severn Building
Fourth Avenue
First Street
Pearl Harbor
Tru-Art Engravers
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Lee Bull
William Kidder
Marin Bull
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Bill Ellsworth
Laurence Ihns
Ed McGinn
Joe Clements Leonard Spooner
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Ed Votrobeck
Eugene Myers
Dick Jenkins
Keith Teague
Jimmie Stewart Myron N. Politis
Glenn Erger
Jim Naughton
Bill Wagner
Bernard Butler
Martyn Johnson
Eugene Daley
Charles Duffy
Charles Engler
Gerald Hanley
Vernon Stevens
Russell
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance CO
Fire and Allied Lines
Williams & Hunting CO
First ST
Cedar Rapids, IA
Mall
YMCA
Camp Wapsie
Lui
Baldridge
Cedar Rapids & Waterloo
F. S. Mitvalsky & CO
Prone
Waterloo
Farmers Supply CO
Tes
Baxter Motors
Emma Miles
Home Service
Owl-Illingis Crewa & Electric
Marion
Super Service Oil CO
G. D, Finnigan
Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy Co
Tenth Street
Fifteenth St
DIAL
Cedar Rapids’ Pioneer Dairy
Tru-Art
Midwest
Morris
Pirat@Eiret
Natl. Bank Bldg
Paramount Pharmacy
Paramount Theater Bldg
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