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Re: location of Hoover Ave.

NEWTON, STEEN, STEIN, THOMPSON, KRANTZ, KRISE, NICHOLS, MADDOX, TOMPKINS, DELONG, DELAMATER, DILLER, LAMB, STECKMAN, DIRKING, LAND

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/14/2015 at 19:20:47

In Response To: Re: location of Hoover Ave. (Lynn McCleary)

Perhaps this will help a little. Compare the residents on Hershey Avenue from the 1939 City Directory to the residents on Hoover Avenue from the 1940 Census. I also included a couple of descriptive extracts from the newspaper of Hoover avenue in 1942 and 1944. Note that all census addresses were odd numbers [on the river side].

Muscatine Iowa 1939 City Directory
Hershey Ave – From 917 W Front west to beyond city limits

Residents:
Steen, Louis B
Newton, Harry C
Newton, Chas. M.
Thompson, Chester J
Krantz, John M
Krise, Wm. R.
Nichols, Mrs. Stella J.
Maddox, Jos. W.
Tompkins, Jos. O.

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Muscatine, Iowa 1940 Census:
All were listed as owners of their properties.

Louis Stein 801 Hoover Ave.
Cliff DeLong 803 Hoover Ave.
Clyde Delamater 805 Hoover Ave.
Rollie Diller 807 Hoover Ave.
Harry Newton 809 Hoover Ave.
Elbert Lamb 811 Hoover Ave.
Charles Newton 813 Hoover Ave.
Chester Thompson 815 Hoover Ave.
Henry Steckman 817 Hoover Ave.

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"Dirking, who had spent most of his life in Muscatine, had been driven from his home on Hoover avenue, adjoining the railroad tracks on the Mississippi river banks, by the flood stages of the river. His home and several others in the area were inundated by the big stream."

Muscatine Journal And News Tribune
June 15, 1942

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"While the No. 1 company was fighting the Schoenig home blaze, a second alarm sounded, calling the No. 2 company to Hoover avenue, where the riverfront cottage of Tom Land was blazing. The flames originated from the explosion of a can of roofing cement which had been placed on a stove. Two lines of hose were used to extinguish the fire. The interior of the cottage was wrecked. Land lost practically all his possessions."

Muscatine Journal And News Tribune
January 31, 1944

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