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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1942
Page
17
Local classified page urges farmers to advertise for cash and buyers. Listings include multiple apartment rentals, rooms for rent, and real estate offerings with various prices and amenities.
Three affordable houses offered by WHITES Real Estate Headquarters at 214 Guaranty Building. A 4 room bungalow with cement basement gas sheets water priced $2,000 with $450 down, an almost new bungalow on a 60 foot lot priced $5,250 with easy terms, and a 2 unit home with extra sleeping room priced $5,500. Dial 3-2085 for details.
Real estate notices advertise new and older homes in Marion area with 2 to 6 rooms plus baths, fireplaces and modern heating. Several 3 to 4 room units include income from apartments. prices range from about 1900 to 7500 dollars with owner quick sale and downtown locations. Contact listings include Horace Hedges 210 Dows Milde and Dr Booth in Marion for offers.
Real estate listings describe multiple properties near Dover Avenue and Cedar Rapids area with prices from 2 000 to 6 250 dollars. Advertisers include TAIT and WAGNER CO and UPTOWN REAL ESTATE CO plus other agents. Properties feature bungalow and 3 bedroom homes with new roofs furnaces and garages. Sunday calls and down payments are common details.
Real estate ads highlight cemetery plots in Evergreen Cedar Memorial Park and multiple residential properties. Items include a two apartment house with rent potential, three apartments near Stone Ave NE, a six room home on the SW side, and acreage opportunities in Conway, all with contact details for Harger Real Estate, Malcolm Won & Co, Bolton's, and White's Real Estate Headquarters.
In West Union the Republican Woman's club of Fayette county approved affiliating with the Iowa Council of Republican Women's Clubs at its annual meeting. New officers include Blanche Knight Randalia president Ellen Williamson West Union first vice president Florence Steight Oelwein second vice president Florence Musser West Union secretary Fila Jones Hawkeye corresponding secretary Doayee Appelman Clermont treasurer. The club has reached 3100 members over the past two years.
Dinie Gladwell died after a Saturday collision on Cascade bridge. Arthur G Dixon, 31, operated the automobile involved in the accident.
Iowa public safety officials announced a May 20 campaign to enforce visitors’ permits for nonresidents driving in the state. Applicants must complete forms for a red circle windshield sticker showing entry and expiration dates. The policy ties to home-state privileges and varies by state, with 30 to 180 day limits typical elsewhere.
A dense reader notice blends dairy equipment offers and farm supplies. Dealers advertise DeLaval Milker components, cows, tractors, plows, cultivators, and precision feeds, with contact options in Cedar Rapids Anamosa Tipton Marengo Manchester Solon Fairfax and nearby towns.
Multiple classified notices advertise tractors John Deere Allis Chalmers Farmall and equipment from local dealers. Also listed are cows calves heifers and dairy supplies, with farm tools, seeds, and hog feed available from farms and merchants near Marion Solon Cascade and Mount Vernon in Iowa.
A jumble of farm property ads describes a 280 acre farm near a gravel road with Jarre and buildings offered at 100 per HM, plus 80 acres four miles south of Fairfax with good buildings. Other notices reference a 100 acre highway-adjacent dairy operation and multiple parcels for sale with unspecified contact details.
A Cedar Rapids 4H member Graham 4H Bob Andrews son of Harold Andrews 101 Eleventh Street NW remained on Bataan during World War II. The message from his father relays that Bob served as a technician in the medical corps and was in close contact with Clark Lee UP correspondent in the Philippines.
The State Health Department reports Iowa infant and maternal mortality rates are lower than national levels. The study notes a decline in deaths, with 46,825 births recorded last year and a focus on ongoing health improvements.
The Dubuque archbishop calls for unity in sacrifice amid conflict and death, urging faithful to endure hardship together. He emphasizes shared burden and spiritual resolve across the community.
London AP reports Prime Minister Churchill is expected to address Britain’s relations with Vichy France in a radio broadcast. The piece notes the second anniversary of the Lowland invasion and recalls the tense estrangement between Vichy and London since Pierre Laval’s rise. It marks a notable date in the Battle of Britain as German air losses were heavy on May 10, 1941.
Gerald L. Tilton 39 of Rock Island Illinois is held by postal inspectors after a confession tied him to thefts from mail boxes in Davenport offices and an apartment house. He admitted taking letters from the mail boxes at four locations.
Vernon R Taddicken, 22, a Creston railroad switchman, died Saturday after being struck by a switch engine wheel in the Creston railroad yards.
Decorah reports 70 graduates to receive degrees at Luther College including 58 from eight states for the Bachelor of Arts. Address to be delivered by Max Wisness superintendent of Willmar schools. Honorary doctor of Divinity to be awarded to Olaf G Malmin, 1921 Lutheran Herald editor.
A jumble of short notices reports 674 individuals transferred for war ration weeks at Palo consolidated rank details include multiple names such as Letha Waddie Stevief, with references to Urbana Sigourney and Manchester. The column lists graduates, scholarships and local civic notes from many small towns and schools.
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