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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1920
Page
4
A scattered Waterloo Courier page lists numerous wants and real estate ads. It includes jobs like waitresses and maids, housekeepers, agents, and miscellaneous helpers, plus extensive property for sale or rent across Waterloo and surrounding towns with contact pointers and box addresses.
Property owners are notified that a plan and schedule showing sewer costs for streets including Poplar Avenue Newton Street Parker Street Norwood Avenue Oakland Avenue and Dawson Street were filed with the City Clerk of Waterloo Iowa. Objections or corrections must be in writing within 20 days after August 4 1920 and filed with the city clerk. The notice covers sewer sizes from eight to twelve inches and describes related public works actions and assessments.
Legal notices and classified blurbs describe real estate partitions in Buchanan and Black Hawk counties Iowa with farm details and sale terms. Auto listings include Ford roadster Maxwell touring Overland touring and Studebaker roadster with cash or terms, plus miscellaneous sale ads for houses and property near Waterloo and Cedar Rapids areas.
Chicago Aug 4 Wheat prices volatile on large scale trading amid grain reports and European demand. Opening bids ranged, then fell and recovered with September and December contracts moving, margins limited by receipts and milling demand. Oats and corn followed grain trends as hog values provided some support in a tense session.
Chicago market reports show cattle receipts around 80,005 with steady to slow demand and prices ranging from calves at 16.00 to best vealers near 16.75, and hogs at 24,900 receipts with prices up to 16.20 for bulk and 14.47 for recent costs. Kansas City notes cattle and hog receipts around 6,000 with varied, mostly steady to 1.0 higher bids and dairy-like prices for calves and stockers.
Receipts and prices for cattle hogs and sheep across Sioux City and East St. Louis markets. Cattle steady to mixed with top steers around 13.00, hogs higher with tops near 16.16, sheep activity steady with lambs around 12.00 to 13.00 and ewes to 7.50.
The Omaha Nebraska cattle, hogs, and sheep market reports show receipts of about 4,000 cattle with steady to firm prices, 10,590 hogs mostly lower, and 12,000 sheep with slower demand. St Joseph reports mixed hog and cattle receipts with steady pork values and lighter lamb markets.
Daily commodity and financial notes show butter and eggs movements in New York. Prices for poultry and cheese noted with steady receipts, while stocks and bonds fluctuated with railroad shares leading gains. currency and metals markets mixed as traders pricing change in call money and exchange rates.
Housing ads list multiple properties near I C Shops and Cedar River with prices from 1 600 to 6 000 dollars. Homes include 4 to 16 rooms, large lots, small barns, electric lights, city water, paved streets, garages, and pressed attention to location near shops and transit.
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