Farm Bureau painters spray paint residence on East Main Street
Harold Davidson and Lyle Godfrey work for Farm Bureau Service Co at 719 East Main Street. Davidson operates a two hose spray setup with 40 pounds of air pressure to atomize paint while Godfrey applies putty and trim with careful hand work. A pickup carries the compressor and engine backing the crew.
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Journal
Harold Davidson
Lyle Godfrey
East Main Street
Glenn B. Holden
Davidson
Godfrey
Farm Bureau Service Company
Sweden Defies Trend with Longer-Lived Men
In a rare pattern among western nations, Swedish men live longer than Swedish women, reflecting unusual gender longevity dynamics in Sweden.
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Western Countries
Sweden
Tacoma Woman Visits Kin in Iowa Mennonite Retreat
Genea Wade of Tacoma visits aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs John Big ham. Pilnley Lang comes to see his daughter. Lorene Schantz returns home from Ottumwa. About thirty youths attend Richer church retreat in Donaldson. Families and friends mingle at Frey and Gingerich homes. Edith Rich helps at Harm Westen home. Mary Sehadd listed as sick.
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J. A. Frey
Noble
Geneva Wade
Tacoma
Wash
John Bigham
Pilnley Lang
Welty
Lorene Schantz
W. RR
Riverside Births and Visits Report
Mr and Mrs Bernard Schnoebelen welcomed a nine pound baby boy at their Riverside home Monday evening. Mrs Margaret Cress returns to Cedar Rapids after visiting her sister Carrie Iden. Roy Green of Des Moines visited this week at the home of Mr and Mrs William Griffin.
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Riverside
Bernard Schnoebelen
Margaret Cress
Cedar Rapids
Carrie Iden
Roy Green
Des Moines
William Griffin
Wheat Field Destroyed By Tractor Backfire Fire
Ten acres of a wheat field on the Baker farm eight miles south of Sioux City were destroyed by a fire believed caused by sparks from a tractor exhaust. Digging around a binder ditch failed to save the machinery from flames.
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Sioux City
Used car market seen at vast scale in Chevrolet data
Detroit July 15 William E Holler Chevrolet sales manager reports June used car sales reached 123701 marking the 40th straight month Chevrolet dealers topped 100000. The 1938 total stood at 725086 and forty month grand total 5732819 with an estimated national used car turnover near two billion dollars annually. More than 11 million motor vehicles are mentioned in the statistics.
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Detroit
America
Chevrolet
William E. Holler
Chevrolet Motor Division
Used Car Boom Records Shatter Sales Milestones
Chevrolet dealers report massive used car turnover with nearly 700 units sold per hour since 1935. About 13 cars sell every minute, 6512 daily, and 143 320 monthly across 9 400 dealers in the United States. Training of used car sales staff has boosted performance and underscored the role of used car merchandising.
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Chevrolet
Holler
United States
INDEX TO AUTO SERVICE
Service stations and garages listed with associated brands and operators including Shell Cities Service Phillips Sinclair Dixie Gas Studebaker Ford Chevrolet Hudson Packard and Studebaker outfits. Also included are motor companies body shops and insurance notices.
Factbook figure on used Chevrolet cars sold and value
A statistical expert calculates that 5,732,819 used Chevrolets sold in forty months would travel 12,000 miles per car bumper to bumper, enough to circle half the world at the equator. At $250 average, total value equals $1.25 billion.
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Chevrolet
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Economy Oil CO
Marion
Dale Gallagher
Washington
Phillips
Lee Sueppel
Post Office
V. Crull
Tacoma, Wash
J. Bigham
Stewart and Crone
Pontiac
Duco
Warren Stewart
Mike Crone
National Safety Council
W. F. Messer
Shell Products
Sinclairize
Sinclair
Crandall
N. Marion
Paul R
Horak
Auto & Accident Insurance
West Side Square
Will Its Motor CO
Shell Station
Guy Knauss
Shell
Bontrager & Erwin
Cities Service
Tydor
Brown's Super Service
Bill Putman
Standard
Warren Donaldson
Farm Bureau Oil Co
Washington Oil Co
Dixie Gas
Dale Crandall
William Barth
Bud's Garage
Cox Motor Co
Studebaker
Car & Radio Service
Harold Mangold Auto Body
Stewart & Crone
Auto Insurance Co, V. Cruul
Mace Motor CO
Washington Oilco
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