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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1942
Page
13
The ad copy highlights strong demand for used items as shortages persist. It promotes a seven day want ad service delivered 215000 times, with rates as low as $1.96 per day and the option to cancel once results are achieved, paying only for active days.
Multiple listings show 2 and 3 room apartments for rent with private entrances in various addresses. Heat, gas, and water often included with monthly rates and some units offer partial furnishings. Availability spans several blocks with notices at 330 Ave NW and surrounding area.
Classified notice lists storage services and rental details with addresses in Lynch, Kenwood, and plus contact telephone numbers. Mentions a widow and middle aged couple seeking moving and storage options with price inquiries and box references J-3 M-1.
Property ads show multiple homes for sale and rent with prices from about 4 000 to 4 350 dollars. Listings mention Kenwood and Highlands bungalows, three room houses, early American styles, garages, furnaces, and flexible payments. Agents at Lundquist Co and Harger Real Estate are named with phone numbers for inquiries.
Multiple ad lines advertise semi bungalow and attached fore sale with terms. Listings from Blake Blvd and 1864 Ind Ave show living rooms, firepits, kitchens, garages, and corner business sites. Prices range around 6800 to 9000 with trade offers and exchanges noted.
A brief classified notice seeks a 66 room owner described as Teasonsbie. Box Besse Wignie, Wanteds will find the Suvert.
A jumbled page lists tractors plows binders and dairy equipment with prices and locations across Iowa towns. Items include Allis Chalmers tractors Oliver machinery cream separators and poultry supplies. Also noted are chicks hatchers and old tractors sought for parts in various counties.
Classified notice listing farms for rent and acreage near Cedar Park. Realtor John B. Finney promotes properties including 62 to 46 rod plots and possession terms. Indicates contact details and general sale terms for area farms.
New York Municipal Court Justice Harold J. Crawford ruled that firms forced from business by government priority orders may be freed from all property leases. The decision involved American Service, Inc of Long Island City and holds that wartime emergency freezing orders can cancel long-term leases for non vital businesses such as auto, tire, refrigerator, and radio dealers.
T Hew Roberts an assistant professor of education at the University of Iowa will be the principal speaker at the annual citizenship class party on April 15 at 7 30 p m in the McKinley school auditorium The citizenship class students about 90 will entertain their families friends and civic leaders from the city
On arrival in Melbourne, Mrs. Douglas MacArthur aroused cheers as unofficial First Lady of Australia. She spoke of standing by her husband and guiding Australian women to support servicemen, while describing life aboard and in the hotel suite during wartime visits.
Abbreviated ad seeks poultry buyers for Easter trade with offered price 20 cents and asks for contact. Nonsensical trailing garble present.
The Sixtieth anniversary of the Knights of Columbus will be celebrated with a broadcast on station WMT Saturday March 28 from 1015 to 1030 p.m. The program features Frank Fitzsimmons Gene Baker and Francis P Matthews who wrote 60 Crowded Years detailing the order’s origins and achievements. On March 29 council 909 and 25 candidates will attend mass at St Wenceslaus church at 8 a.m. followed by breakfast and a ceremony at the hotel.
Iowa savings and loan associations expanded lending by 14.08 percent in 1941 over 1940, per State Auditor C. B. Akers. Total new loans reached 9,962,681 with gains of 1,229,392. Major uses included home purchases 4,145,560 new construction 2,374,160 refinancing 1,785,703 and repairs 700,020.
Moody Field in Valdosta Georgia uses birthday cakes to lift morale at the United Service Organization. Major William Nee leads the effort providing a personal gift for soldiers and a photo keepsake for their families, while civilians receive one cake per birthday.
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