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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 16, 1955

Page

3

Building Permits For Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery Expansion

Listing of issued building permits with owner names, project types, addresses, and costs across Cedar Rapids area. Notable items include a 160000 dollar chapel addition at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery, a 150000 dollar commercial building for Iowa Manufacturing, and multiple new dwellings and alterations from firms such as Althoff Builders, Rush Construction, and Vern on Apartments among others.

Gerette Tom Merryman Iowa Manufacturing Company Sixteenth Street Cedar Memorial Park First Avenue Avenue Drive Mutual Fire and Auto Insurance Company Althoff Builders Fortieth Street Martin-Rousa Tractor and Equipment Standard Oil Company Vernon Apartments Thirty-eighth Street Ralph Roberts Eleventh Street Rush Construction Company Grantwood Drive Herb Shepard Twenty-fourth Street Warren L. Wagner Ninth Street Eighth Street Palumbo Grocery Mt. Vernon Road Len Gauger B Avenue NW

New Dwelling at 613 Sixth Avenue SE Sold for $125

Albert Burgert purchases a new dwelling at 613 Sixth Avenue SE for $125, with details of the sale and property listed in the public records.

Sixth Avenue SE Albert Burgert

City Maintenance Projects and Home Improvements List

A compiled notice lists numerous residential and commercial upgrades with addresses and costs. Items include new garages, reroofing, remodeling and additions at multiple SE and NW streets, with names such as Paul Kobacek, Ray Lehdigh, Donald R. Denny, Celina A. Huntley, Carl Hope, and others.

White Oak Road Paul Kobacek Dalewood Avenue Ray Lehdigh East Carroll Drive Donald R. Denny H Avenue Donald L. Good First Avenue A. W. Doyle Third Avenue Celina A. Huntley Hillside Drive Paul Schubert Mound Avenue Carl Hope G Avenue Carl Ellison E Avenue NW Helen Fitzgerald Fifteenth Avenue SE H. L. Wilson Second Avenue SE Howard Clark Thomas J. Brady

Window placement tips for rooms and plants in freezing weather

The excerpt discusses adjusting wall and window areas to fit furniture, suggesting options like horizontal window strips to reduce wall area, and mentions prices for window work. It also advises keeping newly planted trees and shrubs well watered until ground freeze. The text references Sam Kennedy and specific addresses, noting room areas and window types such as sliding and awning windows.

Sam Kennedy Twenty-first Avenue

How Many Windows Measure Your Floor Guide

A fragment notes the Small Homes Council at the University of Illinois advising on measuring a floor to determine the number of windows in a house. The text implies a practical method without providing full steps or final counts.

North Star B.R Small Homes Council The University of Ilinois

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Ray E. Hertz Crestview Drive L. L. Triska Dale’s Fruit Market Center Point Road W. A. Wamseth Knollwood Drive Frank Kerres Fifteenth Street Jeannette Havens Twentieth Street Ethel Hart Fifth Avenue R. L. Rink George David E Avenue Ernest Wullmer Dwelling Foundation C Street Wall & CO Pniv and King’s Crown Plaster Co Eye) Avenue Love Brothers M. Cach Glass CO DIAL Second Street J. W. Darragh, Inc First St Cedar Rapids Iowa Builders AT Builders Material, Inc Third Street TN Alou Lage VY Yiei Pickart Bros. Window & Awning CO 15Th St M. W Harold Thompson Seventeenth Street Harvey Boots Wilson Avenue de. Christopherson Mallory Street D. Mitchell Hillcrest Nursing Home Sixteenth Avenue Nsw A. T. Boyer Hart Court NE McDonald Oil Company Jerry Cox First Street E. J. Keough Leveins Street Edward Zeman Edwin O. Bollow C Avenue Leo Steckel Eighth Avenue Mary Servousek F Avenue Lakewood Vista-Weil Metropolitan L' Capp-Homes Court Des Moines Carl E. Miller D Ave N.E S&l Heating CO Brinkmann Insulation Company Mural Stone First Ave Paint & Color Center 3Rd Ave Cedar Rapids, Lowa Frieds Paint CO Second Ave Magnus Hotel Hawkeye Downs Sixth St. Road S.W Lennox F Ave Ilten & Taege Westinghouse Edinger Stone CO P.O Seventh Ave Marion, Iowa Central Roofing & Insulation Co 7Th Street Atl Atlas Motors Line Motors Brown & Brockmeyer Motors Century Motors Centre Motors Deihl Motors Delce Motors Pete Motors Driver Motors Dyna Line Motors Emerson Motors Emerson Fans Pirbanks Morse Franklin Motors H & H Battery Chareers Hoover Mot Hunter Fn Kingston € Motors Leland Motors Lincoln Electric Welders Marathon Motors Master Motors Miller Wes Packard M Peerless Mo Reliance Motors Kiey Electric Motors CO Connie Rex
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