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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1919
Page
5
Water loo Want Ads outline low per word rates with a 25 cent minimum, plus bold headings and caps. The page lists numerous help wanted items including Wanted Female Help, Experienced Waitress, General Housework, and Sales positions, reflecting active local recruitment and varied occupations in Waterloo.
Community announcements list thanks for condolences and floral tributes, plus several social and civic events. Hawkeye Camp 137 W QO W invites to an invitation dance at Best Hur hall on Wednesday April 16. Court of Honor No 331 meets Thursday for business, social time, and card party, with sandwiches for family. Waterloo Chapter 125 Order of the Eastern Star holds a special meeting Thursday at 3 pm with program at 5 pm led by Miss Slanelle Martin. Additional notices advertise horse shoeing and repairs, shoe and furniture work, and employment ads, along with many classified listings for jobs and services and a general help-wanted section.
Mixed 1910s style classified notes show rooms for rent furnished and unfurnished light housekeeping options on West Fifth and East Fourth Streets, plus several real estate for sale entries. Ads list contact tones, prices, and locations including Parker Street, West Fourth Street, and local market references.
Weakness in the corn market on April 16 stems from expectations of clearing weather and possible crop shipment delays. Opening prices slipped, then somewhat recovered with rallies as traders noted Kansas City Omaha and Chicago stocks 9,000,000 bushels lower than a year ago. Hog strength lent firmness to lard and ribs while oats held despite corn softness. cattle and sheep receipts and prices varied across Chicago Kansas City and Omaha markets.
Market reports from St Louis Sioux City and St Joseph show hogs steady to higher with top around 20.25 in Sioux City and 20.50 locally. cattle prices steady to higher with steers 11.00 to 15.00 and cows 5.00 to 13.00. sheeps and lambs noted with varying quotes. Multiple cities list receipts near several thousands, with mixed gains across hogs cattle and sheep.
New York reports butter and creamery products selling above extras with varied receipts. Irregulars and fresh gathered items show differing prices across regions with state and country notes. Poultry and eggs hold steady or unchanged across markets in Chicago St Louis and Kansas City.
Market notes show New York stocks strong with gains in steel oil and copper shares led by United States Steel and American Woolen amid wholesale price shifts and a busy session. Rail issues advanced modestly with Southern Pacific and Reading helping. later profits saw some retreat as closing was irregular. Real estate transfers list several Waterloo area parcels including additions to Grand View Place and various lot and land changes filed with Black Hawk County Abstract Co.
Sumner notes Nathan Simon aboard overseas says no place like U S A he will stay to help his brother in the store. Mrs Wet Pease return from California with daughter and son in law at Sunnyvale. Littell sold land to James Madden. Nora Wowell visited sister Volla at Oelweirt. Rev Brunnemeir to Dubuque. Rev Koenig to take Reed place. Rev Willman returns to Evangelical church for sixth year. W Krause buys stake in Tibbetts Hendricks pool hall. Mrs Wehrmacher sells residence to red Schroeder. New cash cream station opens under G A Day. Rev Lang of Waterloo speaks at Methodist church. crowd moves to new Methodist church for M C A talk. Paul Sorg released from camp with discharge. Miss Alice Delahrey to teach term at Sioux Rapids.
A Berlin dispatch reports a Soviet central council resolution empowering the congress elected body to select members for the national chamber of workers. The chamber will include representatives of the nation’s economic and creative forces, based on the principle that governing policies should follow production forces.
Clarksville highlights include visitors from Spirit Lake and Longmont, a $75 Ches ter White hog shipment to Collinsville and 400 White Leghorn chicks sent to Dike. Roy Marquand buys the old Rambo homestead for 4400 on 35 acres. Perrin seeks Minn esota surgical care, plus many social visits and club affairs. The United States Ransom home quarantine ends as scarlet fever fades.
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