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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1921
Page
14
S W Straus of S W Straus & Co notes preparations for extensive building rise nationwide with optimism for a propitious season. Residential activity increases while material shortages and higher prices may persist. rising construction is seen as a forerunner of broader economic revival and social progress.
Ottumwa plans a new high school building costing about a million dollars this year. The school board authorized sale of 300000 in bonds to Ottumwa banks, with 400000 more to be offered late fall or early 1922, bids for the general contract to be received. A Minneapolis architects’ letter notes a recent high school project at 21.12 cents per cubic foot, suggesting construction costs near prewar levels.
Two trainloads of Buick automobiles passed Waterloo early this week from St Louis to Minneapolis for distribution in the northwestern territory. Three hundred seven cars valued at 411,13.20 were shipped. Buick plans another trainload of 55 cars on April 1 over the same route to Minnesota western Wisconsin the Dakotas Montana and northern Wyoming.
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