Building boom in Waterloo with 33 permits issued
Waterloo issued 33 building permits this week totaling 106 760 dollars, the highest weekly value of the season. Projects include seven new structures a two story business block an apartment building and five houses along with numerous garages and porches.
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Waterloo
Edward Manake
Walker Remedy Company
D. W. Bovee
Bert Petrie
Bess E. Gossard
C. A. Lenz
A. C. Cole
le B. Diets
C. C. Lamson
Washington Street
Rose Bidiling
Charles Christensen
Campbell T Aial
D. W. Bovean
Eas RK. Gossard
Avenues
Webster
G. Cole
C. O. Lamson
EB Detts
Byrergreen
Welling
Georges Payne
Dearborn
Grant & Sullivan
Ote E. Hansen
Danver
Porch
John Nightingale
Dawson
SASSO
Comrad Bender
Cottage Grove Avenue
BF. Wise
Almond
Clay Avenue
S. S
WT. Rose
Argyle Laraz & E. Baum
Norwood
Births Reported For Raymond, Waters And Phillips Families
Birth notices list Raymond Smith born May 12 at 402 Baltimore. Raleigh Waters in Hudson welcomed a son April 2. Charles Phillips born May 9 on Franklin Street. Hall family in Orange Township welcomed a son May 17, the seventh child with five living.
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Raymond Smith
Baltimore
Raymond, Jr
Raleigh C. Waters
Hudson
Charles
Phillips
Franklin Street
Hall
Fmchkinger
Orange Township
Private garages rise as America's popular building
Western Contractor notes a shift in architectural taste from skyscrapers to back yard shelters. Cleveland records show 4000 plus private garage permits in 1920, with garage growth outpacing dwelling permits despite rising costs. Garages increasingly dominate home design nationwide.
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Lizzie
Cleveland
America
Building Materials Costs Jump Over 100 Percent Since 1913
The April bureau of labor statistics report shows building materials about 103 percent above the 1913 level, roughly doubling. It notes possible steel price cuts and railroad rate reductions to further lower costs, with overall price levels up 54 percent over 1913 and 44 percent below last May's peak. Fuel prices are 99 percent above the 1913 average.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Want Ad Lands Lady Job in Record Time
Lester Ritter a 16 year old from Waverly Iowa arrived in Minneapolis by freight with no money and found a job as a press feeder with L A Kaercher editor of the Ort onville Independent. Kaercher praised the boy for his courage and said he will make a real newspapersman.
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Minneapolis. Minn
Want Ad
Lester Ritter
Waverly
Minneapolis
Chicago
L. A
Kaercher
Lester
Union Station
Newsie
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Waterloo Roofing Fing & Supply Company
Sycamore Street
Waterio
Towa
Harris Welding Co
West Sth
H. H. Husman
Wargh
West 5Th St
John G. Miller General
Black Hawk Bank
Iowa
Kiester - Hall Seed Company
Better Phone
Waterloo,iowa
The
Russell-Lamson
Schiotz Tool, Gear& Machine Works, Inc
Eee
Jefferson Streets
Seintorz
Black Hawk
B. Schultz
Commercial
A. A. Duba
W.ath St St
Waterloo Ice Cream CO
East Sith
Donse Brothers
Harter
B. Hull
Franklin Streets
Sieg Construction Company
W. R. Sieg
Pres. & Gen. Mgr
B. Sieg
Waterloo, Towa
Jerald Sulky CO
Ruby N. Elam
Russell-Lamson Hotel
Register & Buxton Contractors
Marsh-Place
Waterloo, Lows
Pete
Nucva
Water Street
NUT Butter Company
Ardee Flour
Eason Bros
Coca- Cola
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
National Check Writer Co
Associated Manufacturers CO
Ran Chetan
Waterloo Sash & Fixture Works
East Seventh Street
Motors Electrical Repair & Mfg. Co
Fifth St
Iowa Building
Commercial Street
L. E. Glaza Tin Shop
General Repaizia
Fifth
Sycamore Sts
V. E. Currie
Bulners
Jefferson St
Central Battery & Electric CO
GEO. Miller
W. J. Decker
Philadelphia
Philco
Cedar River Land and Material Co
West Fifth St
United States Tire Sales and Service Depot
Fred Thompson
West Fifth Street
Anderson Plumbing & Heating Co
Thatcher
Waterloo Savings Bank Building
Waterloo Plumbing & Heating CO
Waterloo, Town
Cedar Falls & Northern
Standard Glass and Paint Co
Sycamore
West 4Th
Commercial Nat’s Bank
KOWA
Ralph B. Slippy
Wort
Dart Sales CO
Shores Fuel & Transfer CO
A. C. Stewart Tire’ & Vulcanizing Co
Fifth Street
Commercial St
Siegel
Sutcliffe Red Auto CO
Jake Blough
Mullen Ave
Tal
L L. G. Chamberlain Insfer Co
Netcott-Donnan-Netcott Co
Herman C. Miller
Insurance Service
Nauman Company
A. Olson Construction Company Builders of Concrete
Black Hawk Building
OLSON
Bluff Street
O. Foster
W. B. Foster
Producers Milk Co
Wateries
Sedgwick-Lichty Abstract Company
Court House
el Motor Oils
Sas
Bartles Shepherd Oil Co
California
Armstrong Manufacturing Co
Lawson Automotive Company Cylinder Grinding Distributors
Ows
Phepp
John Deere
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