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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 02, 1939

Page

44

Bitter experience teaches safe driving laws

The article argues the bitter experience method of learning to drive is costly and dangerous. It urges observing all highway safety laws as the sensible alternative, noting local and state authorities emphasize safety.

Object Lesson Urges Safe Driving To All Readers

A stark display warns motorists and pedestrians to follow warnings rules and penalties. It emphasizes personal responsibility and cooperation to prevent harm and avoid hospital or grave consequences.

Stop at stops and drive safely in warning message

Warning instructs readers to obey traffic signals avoid passing on hills or curves and never drive under the influence. It urges caution to slow down in school and play zones dim headlights at night and use hand signals when turning or slowing.

Hazardous warning signs and business listings across downtown

A scanned Chicago era page shows numerous business names and addresses from A to Z including Sears Roebuck locations, hardware firms, groceries, dairies, and service providers. It lists Roosevelt Hotel Building tenants, local printers, hardware stores, a photo finishing service, a plumbing firm, insurance, and a Chevrolet dealer among others.

Also Mentioned on This Page

Sera ACE Mutual Insurance Association Property Ag Iowa Theater Allstate Safety Tires Sears, Roebuck and Co American Legion Hanford Armature Service CO Second Ave. SE Auto Electric Shop Seventh St. SE Beatty Mortuary Third Ave. SE Benner Tea CO Third Ave. SW John Blaussons CO Brbb and Clover Farm Quality Foods Rrabbit-Taylor Music CO First Ave King Broulie Bros R. D. Ron Buehler Bros Builders Material, Inc Burkhalter Insurance Agency and L. Benedict, Incorporated Tei Business Men’s Assurance Company E. Maupin American Trust Cedar Rapids Building & Loan Assn Cedar Rapids City Lines Cedar Rapids Co-Operative Dairy CO Cedar Rapids Gas CO THE Cedar Rapids Camap Rapids Maytag CO W. Peterson Kanal Ave Dial Maytag - Frigidaire Zenith - Skelgas Cedar Rapids Paint Supply CO Third Ave Patek Paints P. T. McCook Schwinn Rotary Club Cities Service Oil CO Colonial Baking CO Jack Walsh Czechoslovak Society OF America C.S.A Dempsey Cleaning and Dyeing CO M. J. Busler B. P. O. Elks, Lodge No DR. Fenton Vigortone Company Vitamine Reinforced Feeds Firestone Tires Tenth Street Second Ave Tenth St. SE First Trust and Savings Bank Twelfth Ave Third St Ginsberg’s Hallerfest, Inc Handler Motor CO Harmony Cafeteria Third SE Third Street Pauli Costas Presiden Hawkeye Sector Ninth Ave A. G. Heim & Co. Investments Roosevelt Hotel Iowa Friendly Appliance Center Vernon L. Spohn Hubbard Ice & Fuel CO Iowa Electric Light and Power CO Iowa Machine CO Iowa Manufacturing CO Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance CO Jack’s Post ‘ Office Kadlec Brothers Studebaker Sales and Service Kilborn Photo Paper CO First Ave. E. Tel Weagering Kruxo King’s Crown Plaster CO Kresge Kubias Hardware CO First St Corbin Lagomarcino Grupe CO Drug & Lunch B. Gatto I. B. McGladrey CO. Certified Public Accountants Merchants Nat. Bank Mary Ann’s Eat Shop Chas. Macy Messinger & Sons Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association Verdi F. Lenzen Midland Mortgage CO Milky Way Farm Morgan Bros NEW Process Laundry CO LA Plant-Choate Mfg, Company, Inc Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. CO R. H. Pickford Security Building C. F. Paulsen Construction CO Penice & Ford, Ltd., Inc Peoples Furniture VO Peter Pan Bakers Quaker Oats CO Weston D. Ralston Insurance First Avenue SE Reliance Myg. CO Second Avenue SW General Machine W. T. Sands Printing CO Hotel Roosevelt Second Street Schmidt Typewriter Exchange L. Smith Typewrite Gar Shover R. A. Shover Marion Bird Limback Lumber CO Linn County Abstract CO Court House Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. Life, Accident and Sickness. Co Larson Paramount Pharmacy Security Laboratory Milo A. Chehak Skelly Oil CO Slavia Realty Co., Inc. Insurance Milo Simanek Mallory SW Springville Creamery CO Levsen Mer Standard Tire Co March For Safety U. S. Royal Masters Stone’s Truck Service CO First Street G. BM. C. Trucks and Trailers Stusak & CO. Meat Market Sixteenth Avenue SW A. Pipal & Co M. M. Thompson Insurance Aetna Life Merchants National Bank TRU John B. Turner & Son Morticians United State Bank Bank Vincent S Jewelry Store Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern Wagner Motor CO Third Avenues SE Western Bohemian Fraternal Ass’n Z.C.B. J Williams & Hunting CO
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