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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1918
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier explains a raised minimum for want ads and per word pricing to improve ad quality and impact. The paper claims the Want Advertising Department is a distinct institution serving all classes for buying selling or exchanging items big or small.
.Wanted items include second hand goods jobs and rentals. Notices describe rooms for rent, boarding, delivery jobs, and real estate offerings in Waterloo Iowa from 1925 including city salaries and ordinances.
Advertisers must submit a written order to stop ads run til forbid to avoid telephone errors. A printed blank, kept by the advertiser, serves as the discontinue instruction. Notices must be received by 16 a.m. to take effect the following day.
A jumbled late arrival of want ads shows entries for stenographers and office work, furniture and home goods for sale, rental or trade, and various wanted notices. Listings include a sewing room furniture set, dining room items, bedding, kitchenware, and a few job seeks.
Tripoli residents undertake travel to Chicago for family visits and to Des Moines for the state fair. Illness and medical procedures appear, with Miss Henretta Kuhrt undergoing an appendectomy. A wedding connected to Lieut Emil Q. Eelkema is noted with post ceremony travels to Milwaukee and hospital training links.
Rev Mr and Mrs Roberts and family plan to move to Lima Ohio Friday. Farewell party for Mrs Roberts at lodge hall rewarded with a gold pin. Mrs W Berger and son left for Seattle to join her husband building ships for Uncle Sam. Mrs Will Langston and children visited relatives. Sumner high school tuition averaged 6 61 per month. A boy born to Mr and Mrs Gen Lauterbach on Aug 23. Mr A Smith was ill but improved. Gaylord Farnum in France reported severely wounded. Will Robertson sold his restaurant stake to A Busch near Maynard for a farm. they will move to Sumner soon. Melvin Fridley closed restaurant. he may enlist in the army soon. Miss Tatk Creager Newport Wash visiting, returned home.
Local residents share travel, family updates, and community changes. Branson Jr. Jameison and family return from Minnesota. Miss Leta Storr visits sisters in the area. Dr. S S Spicer moves practice to Grinnell. postmaster Miss Bertha B slowed ill. hotels and dining spaces re leased. millinery rooms open for fall season.
Chicago markets show further corn price declines with September slipping below last week’s peak. October opens down and firming gives way to a new intraday low as traders take profits. oats weaken alongside corn while provisions stay largely inactive though hogs close higher.
Stock and bond notes from New York report prices for December January March and May contracts with small shifts. Cotton futures show steadiness with multiple months listed and prices for hides veal and livestock items noted. Metals quote lead and other items with little change and mercantile paper shows firm rates amid strong loan demand.
Receipts show 9,000 hogs and 12,000 cattle with demand steady to strong. Hog prices reach around 20 dollars, with various grades from 17.25 to 19.90. Cattle include beef cattle at 14 to 19 dollars, calves and stockers noted, veal calves 17.50 up. Sheep receipts 9, and market softening slightly with lambs around 16 to 18 dollars and breeding ewes around 12 to 18 dollars.
Receipts and prices for hogs cattle and sheep shown in Sioux City and Omaha reports. Hogs steady and mixed across weights with heavy at about 18.56 to 19.40. cattle receipts around 6.5 thousand at 9.56 to 14.50 for steers and cows. sheep receipts about 24 thousand with lambs around 16.00 to 17.60 and ewes near 10.00 to 11.75.
Livestock markets report steady to higher holdings. St Joseph receipts show cattle at steer $9.00 to $15.55, cows and heifers $6.00 to $15.00, hogs around $19.65, and ewes about $5.00. Kansas City listings mirror similar ranges with cattle at $17.00 to $18.30 for steers, cows $6.40 to $14.80, calves $5.00 to $23.25, and hogs $18.70 to $19.60. Sheep receipts near $10 to $17.85 for lambs and $3S.00 to $12.60 for ewes.
Market report from St. Louis shows cattle receipts totaling 5607 slow steers 18.50 to 30.00 per head and heifers cows and calves priced to 12.50 15.50 7.75. Sheep receipts 2200 steady with lambs 14.00 to 17.00 and ewes 11.00.
Receipts tallied about 10.108 tubs of butter and 15.807 cases of eggs with varied prices and grades. Creamery butter and cheese markets showed mixed to firm moves with firsts and standards quoted. Poultry and turkey prices remained steady, with birds and fowls trading near existing levels across regional exchanges.
Mrs. Ferris McGregor died after a brief illness at her granddaughter’s home. Funeral services were held at the Congregational church. Surviving are two sons and two daughters. Jim Stevenson, wounded in France, is improving. Bowen Welsheit christened after birth of son to C. E. Whelt. An auto accident injures eight year old Wanvin Tharp but injuries are not serious. Cement buttress work and vase repairs noted. Horton brief updates include travels, visits, and employment moves.
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