Remodel Plans for Profit Aims to Modernize Old Homes
Expert George Akright of Omaha outlines two fold remodeling: restore sound condition and attract buyers. He stresses preservative repairs, exterior design tweaks, basement brightening, kitchen and bath upgrades, improved lighting, and careful color and material choices to suit neighborhood and purchaser type.
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Real Estate Institute
Cedar Rapids
George Akright
Omaha
Neb
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Akright
Institute
Long Planned South Vinton Residential Area Comes to Life
In Vinton the long dreamed southside district near S H Watson park advances toward reality as four houses stand as proof. The 70 year saga traces from Tilford academy land grants to Watsons park and Chau tauqua park. Local families Beatty Welton and Demmel first built homes on the land after Watson’s death, shaping a historic suburban site now evolving into a formal neighborhood.
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South Vinton
Vinton
S H Watson
Texas Aims to Divide into Up to Five States Upon Union
The document notes that Texas reserved the right to partition itself into as many as five separate states when it joined the United States, a provision reflecting early territorial ambitions and political design.
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Texas
Transformation of a Long-Abandoned Park to Growth in Vinton
The Dur ing the week of the hautauquas engagement narrative recounts a park once built for tents and events, later moved assets becoming a Vinton Country Club clubhouse, and land redeveloped into town lots. Now improved roads and transport spur rapid development with four residences a church and new homes surrounding a stately Trinity Lutheran church.
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Vinton Country Club
Trinity Lutheran Church
Mrs Jeanes Buys Apartment House
Mrs Jeanes at 211 Eighteenth Street NE has purchased the apartment building at 422 Seventh Avenue SW from Mrs Mary Gode of 820 Second Avenue SE. The sale was closed through Lundquist and Company.
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Walter M_ Jeanes
Eighteenth Street
Seventh Avenue
Mary Gode
Second Avenue
Lundquist and Company
Edmund H Kane
A Avenue NW
B L. Anderson
Twenty-sixth Street Drive
H L. Shikosky
Memorial Drive
Hjalmar Johnson
C Avenue
Florence Mossburg
H Avenue NW
Amos Wilson
Milner Hotel
Lundquist and Companys
Hints On Substitutes For Building Materials In Defense Era
The article discusses substitutes to conserve strategic materials for national defense. It cites Hartfords code example permitting substitutes where needed and notes Los Angeles and San Francisco considering emergency code revisions. It highlights copper usage in faucets, plastics limits by manufacturing capacity, and potential replacements like wood, glued laminated arches, glass linings, clay sewer pipe, and durable paints as ongoing trials and likely permanent picks.
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Hartfords
Los Angeles
San Francisco
SPAB
Hugh Dryden
Bureau of Standards
Freeworld
Realtors Discuss White Elephants At Luncheon
Property offered for sale but considered a white elephant due to marketing difficulties will be the topic at the Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board luncheon meeting. The event is Monday at noon at the Y M C A.
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Cedar Rapids
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Sahara
Cedar Rapids Fuel CO
DIAL
ED Soboda
Betty Meyers
Orginal
Sam Waulson
Vinton Banker
Chautauqua Park
Millard Jones
E. J. Hoepner
Trinity Lutheran Parsonage
D. H. Hibbs
M. A. Wolf Residence
Mrs. Jeanes
General
United States Navy
Pontiac
Navy
Fisher
Ing
Culver Motors
Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
McLaughlin Pontiac CO
Cedar Street
Monticello
Iowa
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