Easter trade gains reflect early spring fever across the nation
Retail merchants report broad Easter spending up from 1939 with record sales in the south and uneven gains elsewhere due to lingering winter. Weather delays spring fashions while factory payrolls boost purchases of clothes hats and shoes. analysts note mixed signals amid weak industrial activity and rising post Easter expectations.
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York
Serena
United States
Associated Press
Europe
U. S. Department of Commerce
Bank Auditors And Comptrollers Meet Here Tuesday Night
The seventh quarterly conference of the Iowa Association of Bank Auditors and Comptrollers will be held Tuesday night at the Roosevelt hotel. Dinner at 6:30 pm followed by welcomes from S E Coquillette and Frank C Welch. The event aims to improve internal bank auditing with talks on wage hour adjustments and fiduciary account controls, plus participant three minute talks on prior questions.
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Iowa Association of Bank Auditors and Comptrollers
Iowa Banker's Association
Roosevelt Hotel
E Coquillette
Merchants National Bank
Frank C Welch
Peoples Savings Bank
Iowa Bankers Association
B P Olsen
Muscatine Bank and Trust Company
Muscatine
Iowa
Association of Bank Auditors and
Robert C. Moody
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Cedar Rapids
Olsen
Federal Reserve
Week's Most Active Stocks Amid War Activity
With rising war activity the market registered higher activity as peace scare selling subsided. Air transport stocks rose to new highs while aircrafts steels and coppers led gains though steels and coppers slipped later. Good Friday holiday kept many traders on the sidelines and no clear trend emerged. leading trades included the following equities.
Buchanan County Court House Accepted and Dedication Plans
Buchanan county board of supervisors accepted the new 253000 court house at Independence after a Friday meeting. The building faces highway 17 and includes three stories, a basement, and modern fireproof design. dedication with Admiral Harry Yarnell set for May 22, 1939, with officials to occupy April 16.
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Penstetee
Buchanan County Board of Supervisors
Independence
Harry Yarnell
Admiral Yarnell
United States Navy
Asiaticleet
Buchanan County
New Court House
PWA
Counntys
Homer Benjamin
Masonic Lodge of
Iowa
Building Activity and Business Changes in East Iowa Towns
Ossian see Mr and Mrs Will Lansing retire after 42 years and move to Ossian. Les and Wilfred Lansing to operate the farm. Alburnett sees Charles Naylor sell city house and lot to Edward Anderson. Naylors move to farm. Marengo reports I C Smith and Son buy Davidson Appliance store, moving merchandise to Western Avenue offices. La Porte City records three property sales including Weltons, Niemeyers, and the Wilsons. Wellman store changes hands as Joseph Barta takes over.
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Ossian
Will Lansing
Ossan
William Doerr
Les
Wilfred Lansing
Lansing
Alburnett
Charles Naylor
Simmons
Edward Anderson Myr
Kermit Naylor
Marengo-I
Smith and Son
Davidson
Lloyd
Western Avenue
Smith
LA Porte Cit
H. D. Welton
Waterloo
Locust Street
Simon Wnkerstetter
Ernest Niemeyer
Main Street
Gates
Lehman
C T. Gates
A. Clark
Pine Street
Will Wilson
Howard Lang
Dennis
Wellman
Joseph Barta
Cedar Rapids
Wellman Food
Jim Bryant Myr
Barta
Witwer Grocery Company
Local Contractor Plans Pearl Street Cape Cod Home
Marvin Rundell, a local contractor, will build a Cape Cod residence for his own occupancy in Wellington Park on Nineteenth Street SE near Higley Avenue SE. Architect H. E Hunter prepared the plans. The Paris museum exhibits an emerald from Pope Julius II's mitre, who died in 1531.
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Marvin Rundell
Cape Cod
Wellington Park
Nineteenth Street
Higley Avenue
H. E Hunter
Paris
Julius II
Kalamazoo Store & Furnace to Open Retail Outlet
The Kalamazoo Store and Furnace Company of Kalamazoo Michigan plans a retail store at 708 Third Avenue SE to open about April 1. They leased the building from Tait and Wagner Company. remodeling has begun. C H Reid of Chicago will manage.
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Kalamazoo
Bank Clearings Slip After Easter Push In Cedar Rapids
Bank clearings in Cedar Rapids for the week ending March 23 totaled 1,058,414.98 dollars, slightly above the prior year week end but below the Clearing House figures for the tax week before Easter. Earlier weeks show March 16 at 1,238,917.38 dollars and March 25 at 1,053,201.49 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Chicago cash grain prices and field seed figures lead market update
Readable excerpts show bids for corn oats rye and barleys with assorted grades and prices. Field seed values list timothy clover alfalfa with totals around 18 thousand dollars and 15 thousand dollars. Provisions include lard and pork products with several price points.
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Chicago
IUPI
Weekly Permit Ledger Reflects Local Construction Activity
A series of permit entries lists numerous residential repairs remodels and new builds across neighborhoods. Names addresses and monetary values show activity from Mr Sheheck to Montrose hotel company with totals ranging from small roofings to multiple new dwellings and attached garages.
Real Estate Conveyances and Mortgages in Linn County 1940
Real Estate and Mortgage reports list conveyances and marriages recorded in Linn County from March 1 to March 2 1940 as reported by the County Abstract companies. Totals show 79 conveyances 48 mortgages with aggregate value 923590 40. Corresponding week last year recorded 58 conveyances and 44 mortgages with aggregate 96450 02.
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Linn
Fain
Wheat Market Holds Steady Amid Mixed Signals
Chicago wheat trading opens firmer but closes near steady as prices retreat from early gains and weather, holiday closures, and Canadian supply talk influence moves. Market activity flags with ongoing uncertainty, while forecasts for rain and cold weather temper the grain belt outlook.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade Savirdas
S.cady
Buenos Ayres
Kansas
Wisseini
Specialties Dominate Stock Market on Saturday Deals
EW YORK reports a stagnant Saturday session with 390 900 shares traded. Aviation stocks led with six of 24 new highs, including American Airlines, Eastern, Pan American, United, and National Aviation. Copper and steel slipped while rail and rubber shares softened amid broader dullness.
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York
INS
Aviatons
Sesson
American Airlines
Eastern Airlines
Pan American Airwas
TWAS
United Air Lines
National Aviation
Loft
Borden Edard
Timely suggestions for flowers and gardens
MPS Shea discusses March garden care from pest defense to bulb planting. Readers are urged to protect borders from rabbits, apply repellents and insecticides, and consider hardy bulbs and summer bloomers for sunlit beds while noting differences between crab grass and quack grass.
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Mps JL Shea
Thys
Eastern Iowa Stocks And Bonds Highlight Local Markets
A dense scan of regional financial items lists transactions and prices across Eastern Iowa trading activity. Prices for securities pause amid varied brokers and local exchanges, detailingInvestor activity and notable quotes from multiple firms in the area.
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Iowa
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Curtiss Wright
United Air Lines Ae
Pan. Am
Radio Corp
Aviation Corpeae
No. Am. Aviation
U. S. Steel
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Columbia Gas
Bendix Aviation Oe
Atlas Corp Ae Ds
Jas. E. Bennett and Company
Perpetual Savings and Loan Association Home Loans
Third Street SE
Buchanan County Court House
G R Colton
Ottumwa
Fidelity Savings Bank
Town Association of Bank Auditors and Comptrollers
Kalamazoo Store & Furnace Company
Lamson Brothers and Company
H. R. Mowrey
Sahara
Cedar Rapids Fuel Co
Sheheck
Sixteenth Avenue
Woc Miller
Second Street
Etna Newby
Waseland Drive
Maude Stooke
Second Avenue
J J Nolan
F Avenue
Lewis Giem
Thirteenth Street
Ollie Altick
N Street
Juanita Karlan
Thorty Eighth Street
Sid CC Stemlar
Fourth Avenue
Frank Kilepach
FE Avenue
Charles Stephens
D Avenue
Merl McAvoy
Avenue
Ray W. Decker
Sixth Street
Joe Kelly
Filis Boulevard
William M Brown
Fourth Street
Gus Dusdicker
M. Feder and Son
Twelfth Avenue
Floyd Mosburg
G Avenue
Nestor Wolkoff
G. A Lieber
Wilson Avenue
Ernest Henecke
Zika Avenue
C.K Richey
J Avenue
William H Taylor
Thirty Seventh Street
H N. Grim
John Sturm
Fifteenth Avenue
Earl W. Edgington
Twenty-second Avenue
New Dewlling
Montrose Hotel Company
Third Avenue
Frank Libal
Twenty-first Avenue
Robert W. Elam
Ninth Street
Ada Stewart
Sixth Avenue
DOW Jones
Strade
Aes
Sevetener
Real Estate and Mortgage Reports
Ey van Treet
Mercard Fudd
Qvuarveriy Ee Ak
Eh Treeire Ltd i
Shires
Bn Jones Bean Ie Nee
Winnipeg
Lew Marae
Ssn
Philip Moeris
Eastman Kodak
Leke
Iana Flere
Jana Fes
Iraq
Iona
le Fey
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Meeer
A. G. Heim
Messinger
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