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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1920
Page
6
Job and housing notices flood a Waterloo newspaper page, listing daytime and after school work, maids, salesladies, chauffeurs, and rooming options. Ads seek ambitious students, general housework, laundering, babysitting, sewing, piano tuning, and part time factory or farm labor with low wage guarantees and flexible hours.
Butter and eggs prices mixed across markets. New York reports unsettled receipts. butter at 46 to 58 cents, eggs steady around 83 to 85 cents for extra firsts. Chicago notes lower butter with steady eggs. St Louis lists hens at 16 to 28 cents and turkeys at 68 cents, with other poultry varying.
Trading opened heavy as copper and steel issues led declines across the market with notable losses in Vanadium steels and Chile copper. Oil shares and refined products moved lower while bonds remained firm amid steady time loans as prices for grains and corn fluctuated in early action.
A delegation from Clarkaville attended a local LO. Q. F. meeting Friday evening with Judge present. Refreshments were served. Mr and Mrs Den Hart recently moved into their new home west of Shell Rock.
Raymond community updates include Bea Roh and Mrs. Fred Hewitt hosting events, Mrs. Katherine McVey Greene visiting, and local moves to Waterloo. Students Enrolled at Eklund Business College, and weddings, illnesses, and family visits shape Thanksgiving week.
Chicago trading mixed as Argentine crop damage spurred wheat gains while U.S. elevator stocks remained tight in surplus states. December and March wheat futures climbed after early declines, with export demand aiding a strong close. Corn and oats followed wheat higher amid steady hog markets.
Cattle receipts 11 000 with steers opening low then easing. prices around 12 50 to 16 00 with bulk near 7 00 to 7 50 for cows and 3 65 to 9 25 for canners. Hogs receipts 21 000. opening slow, late stay near yesterday’s averages. top around 10 50 to 10 70. pigs 10 50 lower. sheep 12 000 fat and lambs up about 2 50 with native lambs around 12 78 and ewes 4 25 to 5 00.
East St Louis market shows 4000 cattle and 13000 hogs with steady to higher prices. Cattle mix ranges from 5.50 to 14.00 per cwt with top notes around 13.25, hogs demand strong with a 10.30 top and bulk around 310.50, sheep receipts 300 with lambs fed native at about 12.00 and ewes around 4.75.
Cattle receipts 5500 with beef cattle dull early sales $7.00 to $11.00, fat cows mostly 5.5 to 6.40, calves steady to 5 cents lower. Hogs receipts 10090 near steady with yesterday, tops $7.90, most sellers $9.35, fat pigs $4.25. Sheep receipts traded steady with natives $4.50 to $4.85, fat lambs up 10 to 15 cents. western fed $19.75, native $21.25.
New York reports steady raw sugar at 4 1/2 cents for Cuban CIF, refined quiet. Coffee futures show January at 25.0 to 25.7 cents, May around 7.57 cents. Bee L-Beliver de sneutic and Mexican products appear in garbled terms with no clear context.
The district court in Black Hawk County Iowa lists a foreclosure petition by Jaw Term plaintiff against F Strayer Iona Strayer Lesa Melasky and others. The notice warns defendants to appear by January 1 1922 to avoid default and a judgment in a mortgage case involving a $2500 note dated August 25 1917 and secured by Waterloo property.
The city of Waterloo Iowa notifies owners of parcels abutting a described tract of land that a plat survey has been prepared under official direction. The notice details sewer construction costs and assessments across cattle hogs sheep and feeder categories with specific price ranges and receipts cited, and states the plat and schedule are on file with the city clerk.
Sioux City hogs and cattle prices listed for December 1 with receipts and price ranges across light to heavy categories. Notices include executorship filings in Black Hawk County and objections deadlines, plus appointment details and required claim filings in Waterloo and Mary Saylor estate matters.
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