Waterloo Builds Homes Under Active Program
The Build a Home campaign sparks seven new homes contracted or started this week in Waterloo. Several remodels and planned additions follow as residents like F O Morrison, A Cole, L Kern, H B Beekly, and W R Walker & Co initiate single and two story bunga low style houses on Kingsley avenue, Fourth East, Leavitt, and Denver streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Reaney
F. O. Morrison
Banngalow Typs
Kingsley Avenue
L. Kern
Fourth East
H. B. Beekly
Leavitt Street
W.R. Walker & Co
Denver Street
Emma Rugg
Wellington
Fred Kimball
Vermont
WB. Duncan
Albany Street
Burd Auto Co
Burd Auto Company
Fifth Street
Economical eight room house by architect Chas. Sedgweck
Design for a plain square two story house 32 by 32 feet with eight rooms including reception living and dining rooms on the first floor and four bedrooms on the second. Exterior brick veneer with siding or stucco option, wide piazza entry, large rear porch, sleeping porch, and oak first floor with birch second floor. Cost estimated at 4590 to 5500 depending on finishes and heating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas
Sedgweck
Champion Pulls Down 80 Cents an Hour for Garden Work
Ralph Baerman of Fillmore County Minnesota reports earning 150.48 dollars gross from a one tenth acre war garden, netting 115.06 dollars after expenses, about 80 cents per hour. He details planting, canning, and saving methods, noting government guidance and a state fair prize for canned goods. The piece also notes wartime club enrollment and farm garden statistics for northern states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champion
Ralph Baerman
Fillmore County
Minn
Minnesota
McAdoo backs Own-Your-Own-Home push amid postwar recovery
W G McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, endorses the Own-Your-Own-Home campaign led by the U S Department of Labor. In a Santa Barbara letter dated April 7 he praises home ownership as a driver of prosperity and notes the wartime building restrictions were lifted after armistice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Louis
Post
Santa Barbara
Cal
Huge Marshalltown Hotel Project Promised
Marshalltown officials promote a $400,000 mixed use complex to be built on the former Pals property at West Main corner.Contracts could be met by April 26 1917 if architects estimates hold and tenants are secured. Citizens urged to participate in financing the hotel apartment house moving picture theater and store building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Cooper
Des Moines
Main Street
Second Street
Marshalltown
Moving Picture T
Pals
West Main
Iowa Lands For Sale In Northern Buchanan And Southern Fayette
Iowa land sale notice features multiple farms with varied acreages, prices, and financing. Listings include 4136 acres near towns with hog tight fencing and orchards, 80 acres near a town with tiling, 120 acres tile capable, 120 acres plow and tiled, 240 acres with buildings and barn material, 180 acres with bluegrass pasture, and 305 acre improved farm with high price. Offers financing with mortgages and owner carryback.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Buchanan
Fayette
Fearry
Federal home loan bank act not pushed in extra session
The United States League of Building and Loan Associations' legislative committee will not push the proposed federal home loan bank system in an extra congressional session. They plan to present the measure at the Detroit convention in July and proceed in the next regular session. Le. Keesler led discussions in Washington with K. W. Haymaker reporting consensus on core features while deferring details for convention approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Loan Bank
Legislative Committee
United States League of Building and Loan Associations
Congress
Department of Labor
Washington, D. C
K. W. Haymaker
Building and Loan Association
Information and Education Service
Federal Home Loan Bank System
The
Building and Loan
Detroit
Mich
le. Keesler
United States “League of Building and Loan Associations
7 Room Modern House Near I C Shops For Rent
7 room modern house on a large lot within three blocks of I C shops, now renting for 28. Price: B83500 with $1000 cash and balance terms. Will accept $506 in Liberty bonds or a good car or jot as part payment. Also 160 acre farm within three miles of Eagle Center with good soil and fair buildings, partly fenced, woven wire. Price 8183 per acre, $8000 cash with balance terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. C
Eagle Center
Iowa and Minnesota farms for sale at bargain prices
A broker highlights numerous Iowa and Minnesota farms for sale or exchange, listing acreage from 40 to 320 with prices from 40 to 250 per acre. Properties near Waterloo Nashua Jesup Independence Oelwein Mason City and New Hampton are offered with improvements, tiling, silos or fences. The ad urges quick purchase before prices rise and offers exchange options and vehicle service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Oelwein
Mason City
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Forum Land & Investment Company
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Black Hawk County Abstract Co
Claus Johnson
Niels Jensen Pedersen
Timothy Mullarky
Geder Falls
Thyre Sorenson
Niels Jen-sen Dedersen
Ana
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Cedar Fells
W.M. Greenwood
Zepla Hie
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William A._ Wilson
Nwy
Adies Rickler
Eli Bickley
Isabel Stu Peeregh
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Mary E_ Briden
Noble Idine
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A.D. “Burhyte
Jacob J. Miller
Home Park
A.L. Demmstedt
Margaret Whither
Rose Furst
Watertoster D. Like
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Burd A To & Supply Co
Con
Dace J Menhard
Whland
Wat Tao Orieane
D. Manhard
Frank A. Fowler
Highland Second Filing
Waterlola
Lma
Fern Warner
Jacobsen
Add. Watarlon
J ‘ Della Rows
Earl F. Naghart
Fast Aide Certar River
Ourier
M’ Adoo
L. E. Glaza
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W. H. Howrey
L. Q
I.C
Cedar Falls
M. H. Hill
East Fourth Street
Palace Clothing Store
Standard Glass & Paint Co
Sycamore Street
Geo. B. Miller & Son
Black Hawk Bank
Rynearson&Koch
East Fifth St
Burr Amia A
Pri al Daitt
Prospect
Berkshire Road
Byrnes Park
Sheridan Road
Fourth Street
California
F. M. Collord
Agt
First
Nat'l Bank Bldg
United States
Whitney Road
G. E. Hemstreet
Lowa
St. Ansgar
Nashua
Dexter
Barnesville
Baker
Jesup
North Branch Minn
New Hampton
Bruno, Minn
Duxbury, Minn
P. W. Belangee
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