Advocates Developing More Attractive Rental Areas
A Cedar Rapids study by Curtis Publishing argues privately financed rental dwellings in blighted border areas could stabilize vacancies and raise living standards. It cites healthy overall business activity, strong retail and wholesale sales, and high car ownership as signs investors can absorb more housing while improving market conditions. The plan favors permanent rental ownership to maintain architecture and tenant quality while targeting middle and upper class renters.
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Cedar Rapids
Division of Commercial Research
Curtis Publishing Company
Lawrence C. Lockley
Lockley
Chamber of Commerce
United States Bureau of the Census
Linn County
Lockles
Residence at 1389 Elmhurst Drive NE Reveals Wood Rich Interior
The Bruch family home at 1389 Elmhurst Drive NE features birch and walnut woodwork, an arched doorway between living and dining rooms, and a carved mantel above a brick faced fireplace. Curved studio windows, leaded casement, and matching draperies enhance the wood themed spaces. The kitchen includes built in storage, a fold down breakfast table, and a back hallway linking to a second floor with linen closet and cedar storage. Neo classical touches in the downstairs bedroom contrast with early American style upstairs. One in six American families owned a piano in 1937, with two fifths of these instruments aged 15 to 60 years.
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Elmhurst Drive
Richard Bruch
Thompson
Local Directory Listings Highlight Builders Supply Firms
Community directory features Novak Heating Co Wisconsin Lumber Limback Lumber Nagle Eaton Lumber Hawkeye Lumber and Coal Co R Fuel Cedar Rapids Gas Co Williams Hunting Co Kings Crown Plaster Co Sanford's Economy Lumber Sears Roebuck listing multiple merchants showcasing heating lumber plaster and general supplies to support homes and construction across the area.
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Novak Heating Co
Wisconsin Lumber
Limback Lumber Co
Nagle Eaton Lumber Co
Hawkeye Lumber and Coal Co
R. Fuel
Cedar Rapids Gas Co
Williams & Hunting Co
King’s Crown Plaster Co
Sanford's Economy Lumber Co
Sears Roebuck
Stark Construction Wins $30,000 Hastings Pier Contract
The Stark Construction Company of Cedar Rapids secured a contract from the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad to wreck and rebuild its upstream protection pier in the Mississippi River at Hastings Minnesota. The timber structure will feature a steel nose and work begins this week.
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Stark Construction Company
Cedar Rapids
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Mississippi River
Hastings
Minn
Ralph C Watterson Buys 2 Small Homes
Malcolm V Bolton and company report the sale of two four room cottages to Ralph C Watterson of 809 Sixteenth street SE. Both cottages were owned by Interurban Investment company, located at 1208 F avenue NE and 5380 Thirlieth street Marion.
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Malcolm V. Bolton
Construction Starts on New Homes in Progress on Gwendolyn Drives
As summer progresses the number of new houses under construction keeps rising. Last week a modified Cape Cod five room bungalow is being erected by C. W. Kohn for W. Roy Harger at 501 Gwendolyn drive NE. The 431 Gwendolyn drive NE house for M. J. Marchant is under construction by Mr. Harger.
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Cape Cod
C. W. Kohn
W. Roy Harger
Gwendolyn Drive
Mr. Harger
M. J. Marchant
Mason City housing update for Richardson and neighbors
Marion is to be completed in about thirty days. An English type two story house at 1953 Second avenue SE is under way for Mr. and Mrs. W. H. M. Richardson of 319 Twenty third street NE, with Stanley Reid as contractor. Hugh E. Rick has permits for bungalows at 616 and 620 Thirty-second street NE and foundation work starts this week.
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Marion
Second Avenue
W. HM. Richardson
Twenty Third Street
Stanley Reid
Hugh E. Rick
Thirty-fourth Street
Thirty-second Street
Moonlight Much Dimmer Than Sun By Huge Difference
The total amount of light from a full moon is believed to be less than one three hundred thousandth that of the sun. This comparison highlights the vast contrast in brightness between the two celestial bodies.
Will Open Legion Hall At Blairstown With Dance Thursday
Blairstown to host the formal opening of a new American Legion hall with a Thursday night dance. Funded by farmers and townspeople, the brick‑sided frame building replaces the old Blairstown opera house. Construction led by J. H. Krumm and sons, progress slowed by rain but finished enough for a large main floor for dancing and basket ball.
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Blairstown
American Legion Hall
M. J. Kirby Post
American Legion
Post
T. H. Weir
J. H. Krumm and Sons of
van Horne
Brooklyn Seeks PWA Grant For Its School
Norman Hatton a Cedar Rapids architect is drafting plans for an $80,000 Brooklyn Indiana school addition seeking a PWA grant. The project would add a gymnasium auditorium and classrooms to the current facility.
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Brooklyn
PWA
Norman Hatton
Cedar Rapida
Brooklyn, In
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United States
Large Sale Electrical Goode
Alal Eee
Ty Leah
Hawkeye
Hercules Stoker
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Third Avenue SE
Iowa
Naomi Doebel
Bruch
Sash & Deer Co
South Side
Sach & Deer Co
Eimburnt Drive
South Side Sash & Door CO
A Bt
Sanford
C.R. Fuel
ED Soboda
Better Homes Directory
Stark Construction Co
King's Crown
Plaster CO
First Avenue W
Lowe&t
Porifera
First Street
Ralph C. Watterson
Curtis
Nagle-Eaton Lumber CO
Seventeenth &T
Mulehide
Wisconsin
Harold Ferguson
Third Avenue
Legion Hall
Novak Dial
Mrs
Bird & Son
Third Street
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