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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 19, 1940

Page

8

Cozy and Modern Rentals in City Listings

Numerous 4 to 6 room apartments and houses for rent or sale. Listings feature private baths, garages, heat types, and flexible terms. Notable addresses include 1523 E Ave NE, 1364 1st Ave, 1617 D Ave NE, and 141 33rd St SE with properties from $25 to $75 monthly rents and several homes for sale with garages and modern heating.

1St Ave 3Rd St 2Nd Ave 4Th Ave Bever Ave F Ave E Ave 16Th ST Erator 4Th ST 8Th Ave B Ave 6Th Ave Ist Carolyn 10Th ST 6Th St Auchenet Hata Salo 1St Electrolux Hills Peid Fred E. Collard & CO 5Th Ave Alley Myers Vernon Ave C Ave J. Machimes Grande Ave Hiciey Ave Inquire Snyder 13Th Ave WIM Severich California East Side 17Th St 35Th St Gazette

Bolton Firm In Receivership Listing Names

A court filing lists Malcolm V Bolton & Co with Geo Griffith 5369 and J A Smith 29338 as part of a receivership or related financial matter. The notice names involved entities and identifiers in a formal business record.

MALCOLM V_ BOLTON & CO Geo. Griffith J. A. Smith

Charming brick bungalow ad with multiple homes

Real estate notice touts a 3 bedroom English brick home with tiled bath and down stairs lavatory, automatic heat, landscaped yard, 2 car garage. Mentions near Franklin school, center hall layouts, fireplaces, air conditioning, and financing options. Includes contact details for Tait & Wagner Co and Glenn Strickland.

East Side Sun Porch Larselot West Highlands Bolton & CO Steber Grande Ave Weth St 1St Ave W. S Tait & Wagner CO A Franklin Polk Franklin School

Rents rise while contract payments stay fixed

Text advertises rental homes with features like 2 bedroom bungalow and attic finishing. Mentions price $3,850 and contact by A A. Doolittle & Co with multiple phone numbers. Reads as a period ad for rentals and changes.

For Sale Lots in Clarendon Hills Near Benjamin Franklin High

A flood of small ads lists multiple lots for sale including 52 by 114 foot plots in Clarendon Hills near Benjamin Franklin High School with paving and sewer paid. Prices vary from 500 to 850 dollars for graves and farm lots, and numerous other parcels around Cedar Memorial and 35th Street areas are offered through The Hedges Company and Henry Ely & Co. with exchange options and agent contact numbers.

Clarendon Hills Benjamin Franklin High School Harry T. Hedges Hedges Company Cedar Memorial Acacia Monument Mound Farm Henry Ely & CO Hallam Llth St Chean Gazette Dial L St A_G. Bauder Rapa Apra Sas

Mme Mansvetov to Speak On Czechoslovakia Thursday

Lecture by Marie Tolstoy Mansvetov arranged by the Czech Alliance at 8 p.m. Thursday in the C S P S hall on conditions in Czechoslovakia since German annexation. Born in Russia, she spent 16 years in Prague and is granddaughter of Count Leo Tolstoy. Free admission. public invited.

Czech Alliance Marie Tolstoy Mansvetov P.m Czech Czechoslovakia Germany Russia Prague Leo Tolstoy Madame Mansvetov High Twelve Club Senate Chamber Old Capitol Iowa City College Club Public Library Cedar Rapids Omaha

ONeal vows farmer backing for Roosevelt in war crisis

President Roosevelt faced a world war crisis as Edward A. ONeal head of the American Farm Bureau Federation telegraphed pledge of farmer support. He urged Congress and the nation to act to safeguard the American people and civilization. He offered to back essential measures and even outline a coalition government if needed.

Chicago Roosevelt United States Edward A. O'Neal American Farm Bureau Federation Congress

Chicago Board of Trade to consider price pegging

The Chicago Board of Trade will convene Sunday at 9 am to consider Secretary Henry Wallace’s request to set Saturday closing prices as minimums for grain on the exchange. A spokesman said no official notice had been received yet. Congress moves to cushion farm prices amid war with CCC borrowing power proposal.

Chicago John J McCarthy Chicago Board of Trade Board of Directors CST Henry A. Wallace Washington Wallace Congress Byrnes Commodity Credit Corporation CCC Europe

American journalist James R. Young returns from Tokyo

James R. Young, noted foreign correspondent, spent 61 days in a Japanese jail after reporting on Chinese resistance to the invasion. He arrived in San Francisco on a Saturday, expressing relief to be back in America, the land of habeas corpus.

San Francisco INS James R. Young Ace Tokio America

It Happened Last Week By Bob Estabrook

A retrospective on looming global peril as Nazi gains loom in Europe and U.S. policy debates sharpen. Roosevelt proposes armament funding and defense expansion while Willkie urges economic aid to Allies. The narrative tracks German advances across the Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg and France, plus Allied evacuations and political shifts at home.

Europe America U.S U. S Dutch West Indian Islands Japan Dutch East Indies Canada Britain France Germany Hitler Congress Roosevelt Panama Canal Alaska Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Hull Uruguay Italy Mussolini Yugoslavia Wendell Willkie Des Moines Willkie Harold E. Stassen Tom Dewey Greenland James Penfield Frank Knox Chicago Daily News Knox Harry Woodring Brussels Paris Adolf Hitler Zeeland Leopold Liege Namur Dinant Ostend Antwerp Sedan Reims Gamelin Switzerland Romania Corsica Sweden Kiel Russia

Citizen 22 Years Without Knowing It

George Riach, a Scotland native living in the United States since 1910, learned he had been an American citizen for 22 years after applying for naturalization. Judge James W. Porter ruled his World War I service with the U S Army satisfied the citizenship requirement.

Twin Falls Idaho George Riach Scotland United States James W. Porter Riach

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Money Corporation 2Nd Ave. SE Carpenter Kern Federal Discount Corporation Paramount Bils Bolton Noney Elizabeth Giblin Bath BOL ‘Fon & CO IF Ave NW Garfield 7Th ST Elmhurst Drive Erservist Drive Garase Kitchener Ave Washington Apts the Hedges Co Dows H. B. Helscher L. Jones W. M. Breed Bama Fall Sea Eww Camp ‘O Jack Melchert Manchester Delhi Perry Rude Wer Johnson-Franklin O. P. Myers Gustafsson Schnare D Avenue Will Aell Erms Bedell Nissen Company Kenwood 33Rd St Stark Realty CO Sth Jacine Garfield School W.J. Conway & Co Narion John Booth Marion Hatfield’s St Bislot Knapp White's Hever Ave J. Frank Cravens 36Th ST Cape Cod Lundquist & Birch Center Point Road Randolph Bercom Ees Rids Homes For Sale Fourth Avenue Sixteenth Street Twenty-ninth Street A Avenue B Avenue Fifteenth Street Twelfth Street Fifth Avenue Thirty-first Street Twelfth Avenue Nineteenth Avenue Ninth Avenue J. P. Conway & Co Savings Bank Garane Tait & Wagner Co Amer Trust Glenn Strickland H Avenue Ellis Blvd Dow Buser C Avenue E Avenue 13Th Street F Avenue Dows Building A A. Doolittle & Co Stephen Wandel Bever Avenue 16Th Street Sun J. BP. Conley J. J. Horak Country Club Heights The Hedges Co Geo P. Witwer Northglew Eastland Manor East End A_Ave Vernon Heights Bever Woods Ridgewood Melcolm Westland Pale-Shellsburg Road Call Horace Hedges Property Snyder Bus Elarton South Side News Mme. Mansvetov Z. C. B. J. Park River Road Anna R. J. Kucera Eighteenth Street Cedar Rapids Lodge Z. C. B. J. Hall Sokols Sokol Hall Cadets of St. George St. Wenceslaus Parish St. Wenceslaus Hall Z. C. B. J. District Committee O’neal Aia Chicago Board Young JU. S Bob Estabrook Holland Hague Amsterdam Rotterdam Wilhelmina England London Curacao Dutch West Indies Frederick A. Cook North Pole Cook Senate Toronto Emma Goldman Westinghouse Westinghouse Aristocrat Westinghouse Electric Westinghouse Streamline Irons OWA Sectrig Light and Power Company Watz
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