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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1936
Page
2
Local classifieds list numerous items for sale including furniture, rugs, a piano, radios, sewing machines, stoves, washing machines, and baby gear. Also advertised are farm supplies, livestock, tools, and assorted appliances with numerous street addresses and contact numbers.
Unfurnished and furnished apartments listed with multiple addresses across 921 F Ave NW, 1407 48 WASH Ave, 809 E Ave NW, and others. Includes 3 to 6 room units, private baths, heat, and yard or garage options. Several listings note bills paid, gas heat, and earnest adults seeking occupancy. many show contact numbers and agents. Houses include 6-7 room modern homes with garages, near Bever Park, and farm or acreage rentals with terms.
Classified ad from Cedar Rapids Iowa listing small lunch room barber shop beauty parlor and rooming house for sale with prices and terms. Includes grocery meats hotel cafe general store and other town business opportunities with contact by Gazette boxes and phone.
Numerous listings describe furnished rooms with utilities included and unfurnished flats with heat and baths. Locations span 5th Ave SW to 4th St SE, with contact numbers like Dial 5040 2-3246 2-4971 and references to bills paid water included and heated units.
Real estate notice promotes Iowa farms and acreages for sale from The Hedges Company. It urges investors to buy land for security and yield, offering farms of varied sizes, prices, and the option to convert city property into a farm. Dial 2213 Mr. Finney, Farm Dept.
Extensive farm offering 180 tillable acres 40 tiled with a creek through pasture. 7-room house barn 40x80 double corn crib chicken house 12x40 orchard windmill and two pumps. Price 60 per acre. Also listings of 50 acre and 62 acre tracts with houses and outbuildings. Realtors include Malcolm Bolton Co Amer Trust, Childs Realty, McTavish Co. nearby Des Moines ads.
Several old style ads describe East End homes and lots for sale. Listings include 55 Cozy Bungalow with brick fireplace and book cases, two first floor bedrooms, large bedroom, finished interior, oversized lot. prices range from 3475 to 4500 with down payments and monthly plans. Also COE College four bedroom home with rental potential and modern updates. price near 2800000 with small down payment. The Hedges Company promotes new homes on A Avenue between 24th and 25th Streets with contact details for inquiries.
A collage of classified house ads describes six to eight residences and investment properties for sale or exchange. Listings include 6 to 7 room modern homes with fireplaces, baths, garages, and up to 27th St NE locations, with prices from 1,350 down payments to 6,850. Also offered are multiple trades and exchanges through local real estate brokers and 2-story brick buildings for business use.
Dr. Frank A. Evans of Pittsburgh head of the metabolic clinic at Western Pennsylvania hospital will speak to the Linn County Medical Society at the Roosevelt hotel Thursday night. He will be joined by clinic associate Dr. James Strang. Evans will discuss The Physiological Background and Treatment of Obesity and Undernutrition. The paper will be debated by Dr. Fred W. Smith Iowa City Dr. Daniel J. Glomset Des Moines and Dr. J. S. McQuiston Cedar Rapids. Local ten minute paper by Dr. Leo B. Sedlacek.
Kenwood Park Methodist church will hold a week of preaching mission services from Monday to Friday at 7 30 p m. Rev Foster M Beck will lead daily sermons on the prayer taught by Jesus with Sunday mornings opening theme Our Father. Special music will accompany each service and parishioners may affiliate with the church. all services are public.
Varnish on Egyptian mummy cases is the oldest extant varnish discovered, with some specimens estimated at 2,500 years old.
The annual Iowa Mortgage Bankers convention starts at 9 30 a m with a 6 p m banquet closing the sessions. Prof H J Thornton of the University of Iowa speaks on The Historical Development of American Business. Prof Karl E Leib covers Looking Ahead in Business. C F Clark and A C McGill also speak. Frank C Waples reports on the Memphis meeting. Officers are W W Beal president and Earl Linn secretary.
A Des Moines conference December 4 will involve Linn county supervisors and state relief administration officials to discuss Linn county status in the 1937 relief program. The Linn county relief committee met to hear October relief case and 1936 relief garden reports. The October WPA payroll in Linn county stood at 814. Ben Tait chaired the session.
Judge H C Ring grants divorces for cruel and inhuman treatment including Martha F E Vrbicky from Frank J Vrbicky Jr. and Rose Lucille Longfellow from Theodore E Longfellow. Arthur E Mefford divorces Aurrilla Mefford for desertion. they married June 8 1930. Florence Ragan wins custody with property settled against Earl E Ragan.
Judge H. C. Ring dismissed two note actions of Mrs. Wilhelmina Justine Steege filed May 7 in district court after sustaining demurrers. Defendants included C. H. Otto and the firm Martin and Mueller. The ruling also disposed of Herman L. Currier’s suit regarding proceeds from salesmen notes, fire insurance, deposit certificates and stock sales tied to the Shores Mueller company business.
Collins Radio countersues for 6100 in district court against Radio Manufacturing Engineers Inc. The counterclaim argues a patent infringement suit arose over radio sets bought from the plaintiff and that a preliminary injunction bars sale or use. It seeks damages for defense costs due to the injunction.
John Armstrong, 31, of Boston pleaded not guilty in district court before Judge H. C. Ring on a larceny charge. Arm strong was arrested after police said he took several scarves at the Montgomery Ward store Thursday. A true information was filed by County Attorney G. K. Thompson.
District court judge H C Ring rules in favor of the Home Owners Loan Corporation of Washington DC. Defendants Maurice Goldberg and Anna Goldberg are awarded $3463.57 and C J Fabtinson and Minnie Faltinson receive $3407.12 in judgment sums.
In district court William C. Siechert asks the court to fix shares in Cedar Rapids real estate. He seeks to be declared owner of a two fifths interest with one fifth shares for Vera Fuller Frank P Siechert and Arno Siechert.
Two divorce petitions surface in district court listing Lena Chapek versus Milton Chapek, married August 25, 1905, and Nellie Custer versus W. D. Custer, married February 20, 1928, both filed on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds.
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