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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1907
Page
3
Weather remains cold as farmers report halted outs and potential frost damage. Community updates include deaths, funeral notices, medical meetings in Waterloo, new business ventures, road work plans, baseball opening rumors, school absences from measles, and various visits, purchases, and social events across Jesup and surrounding towns.
April notes report Henry and Peter Nelson laying a new coal shed foundation with a concrete mixer for Revere Gage. Deaths include Mrs. Miles at 80 and 14 year old Dennie Barrett from an accident with a pulverizer. funeral services held. Other items cover residents’ visits, school board actions, gardening delays, illness, and farm work as spring arrives.
Market notes show hogs at 5.90 to 6.00 per cwt and corn 22 to 36 cents a bushel, oats 32 cents, eggs 13 cents, butter 33 cents, dairy butter 25 cents, hay 7 to 8.50 per ton, potatoes 35 cents per bushel. Obituaries report Frederick H. Breege dies near Waverly. funeral held Tuesday. Local items cover insanity hearings, beagle pups, deer wolves, wolf hunts, and town happenings in Bremer county and Waverly.
Fred Hesse and Lloyd Patterson have bought the Otto Hardware Co store in Wapella Iowa and taken possession. Hease has long experience in retail trade. Patterson lacks experience but will learn quickly. Hesse plans to move soon. Robert French of Waterloo visited. he is cooking in Germania hotel. A shower honored Miss Mystic Newdigate. Miss Johnson of Seattle visits Mrs Larson. Shel heads to Europe. M Conch family left for Seattle seeking better climate and work. James Skinner leaves for Seattle to work. Frank Greens stallion trainer Morgan died. Hob French from Waterloo and Short Waite from Shell Rock visit. George Chambers was in Elma for his father’s death. Akin and wife of Dumont visited sister Mrs. Geg Miller.
John Washington of Busqueville Texas was bitten by a spider and nearly lost his leg due to infection. He credits Bucklen Arnica Salve with relief after the first application and healing after four boxes. The product is sold by Wangier Bros, a local denggist. Also advertised: Fancy shelled English walnuts at 40 cents per pound from C H Eighmey's Grocery.
Chicago notes improved conditions with lighter weekly demand, calls for distributing shipments more evenly through the week. Cattle prices rise to near $6.70 with feeders and finishers in keen competition. hogs top near $6.95 with expectation of reaching $7. Lambs and sheep climb as stock dwindles, with Colorado lambs at $1.85 and griped lambs selling as high as $7.75.
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