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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1919
Page
8
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter explains want ad pricing with one cent per word per insertion, a 25 cent minimum, and different line formats for light and heavy type. It emphasizes theWant Ad department as Waterloo’s marketplace for buying selling and exchanging a wide range of items.
Classifieds list multiple help wanted ads for barber, hatter, soda fountain help, assemblers, laborers, farm hands, and domestic staff. It also includes lost items like a 35x4% tire wheel Paige hub cap and requests to notify Courier office for reward. Local employment office details and warnings appear amid varied notices.
Classifieds list rental rooms furnished light housekeeping, offices, and near transit. Also multiple real estate ads for sale or trade including farms, modern homes, and acreage in Waterloo area and surrounding states.
Large mixed farm on 160 level acres with 100 under cultivation and 60 meadow and pasture. Includes oak grove hog pasture fenced cross fenced, trout stream, 7 room house, barn, granary, poultry house, corncrib, machine shed, orchard, 18 head cattle, 3 horses, tools, hay, and equipment. Main road, telephone, daily mail. Owner crippled, sacrifice price 12000 with 4900 cash, balance to suit, immediate possession. Other ads note autos, real estate, and small town notices from Waterloo Evening Courier.
Ge or ges Caldwell preached at the Greene Presbyterian Church on Saturday. Lydia Meyer returned to Cedar Rapids after a week at home. Prof. Bomew dislocated his wrist Saturday while cranking his auto and wears a sling. Abe Voogh is sick. The G D Meyer family is out from quarantine. Rev Tilken and Forreston visitors came to the G Schnucker home. John Spieker, recently discharged from a Virginia camp, returned home. Carl Lund opened a garage at Kesley. Ackley Otterville notes April 25 born to Jesse Slaughter. Funeral attendance listed for John L. Cramer relatives and friends from several towns. Christina Gisgel ill with tonsillitis. Miss Marjorie Curtis yelled home from S T Cedar Falls. Family guests of rank Bantz include Mrs Hattie Me la in Elgin Illinois and others for the late John L. Cramer funeral.
John Stewart rises in the ranks to become the private secretary for a magnate after being chosen to carry on in the home of Mr. Kennedy. He delivers papers and starts his day in the mansion office, noting a young secretary with a simple attire and an unpretentious demeanor.
A secretary's clever wit and a gentle romance drive John Stewart to pursue the violet eyed stenographer. He learns of a hidden courtship as the employer recovers, and a dramatic home visit ends with the girl revealed in velvet and violets, changing his fate.
Chicago market notes show hogs weaker by up to 10 cents and cattle steady to lower. Receipts reach 23 000 hogs with mixed results across weight classes. lambs and sheep show firm to higher tendencies, while grain quotes mix through corn oats and barley readings.
In a tense scene, a man and a woman face a stark difference between them. The girl pleads with him as she prepares to leave, while he warns that staying could erase the boundary. Miss Kennedy intervenes with a request to delay.
Wil liam Jackson says he dreamed his son Charles fell from a traveling crane at work and died after the boom line failed. Navy yard report later confirmed the fatal 200 foot fall, aligning with the dream, as the family mourns.
Cotton futures opened steady with May at 27.86 and July at 26.25. October traded around 24.60 and December near 24.10. January showed 23.80 as the market closed strong.
The St Louis market shows hog receipts at 500 with varied lots and prices from 16 to 26 dollars, while cattle receipts reach 12 000 with steady to higher bids for native steers and cows. Sioux City reports 7 000 hogs and 1 200 cattle with higher prices for heats and mixeds, and St Joseph notes 3 200 hogs and 400 cattle with top hogs around 20.95 and steers up to 18.25.
Rev Roy Stover of Messiah Lutheran church launches Bring your sweetheart to lecture campaign to boost Sunday school. A recent service drew couples of all ages, swelling the male attendance in the Bible class while female workers urge mates to join.
Policeman McEnore discovers a naked baby girl under a viaduct at Fortieth street and Emerald avenue. The infant is named Mary McEnore at a makeshift baptism by Detective Sergeant Dennis McCarthy and Godfather Lamb, then taken to German Deaconess hospital. The scene is described as a silent, dramatic moment in a City Courier notice.
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