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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 03, 1917

Page

4

For Rent and Real Estate Listings Mosaic

A jumble of rental notices appears, offering modern houses and rooms on Fowler, Peek Street, Vine Street, West Avenue, Independence Avenue, Grant Avenue, and more, with contact numbers and references to furnishes and steam heat. The text shifts to corporate boilerplate on stock, board of directors, officers, and a list of initial directors from Dunkerton, Iowa.

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Real Estate for Sale at Bargain Across Midwest and Canada

For sale estate notices describe farms in Wisconsin Michigan and Alberta with 10 to 112 acres, crops stock and buildings. Listings cite prices from 8000 to 34 per acre with cash and long terms, plus climate and transportation notes. Marked by multiple brokers and contact details.

Wisconsin Bruce Flemansin Sunny Ushern Tower Alt Farm Sloan & Co Ibia Iowa Elf Dawson St Schoot Lafayette St Michigan Big Benklet Free Swigart First National Joane Chicago Canada Allan Cameron Canadian Pacific Airwray Ninth Ave Calgary Albert

War Budget Totals Talked In Congress

Congress outlines a war budget totaling 10.9 billion dollars with allocations for labor dispute settlement, justice prosecutions, shipbuilding and port costs, road funding, food production, and federal aid programs. Also notes internal commissions, commissions on trade, and public works.

United States Department of Agriculture Des Moines WOT Interstate Commerce Commission Shipping Board Council of National Defense Federal Trade Commission

Wanted and For Sale Classifieds Mix of Odd Jobs and Goods

A garbled feel of want ads and sales listings includes rent offers for a sunny modern space and a sleeping room in Pune, cashier inquiry for Scharfenberg's Meat Market, various for sale items from furniture to overcoats and dining sets, and scattered notices with contact phone hints, all in jittery OCR style. A few entries mention room heat, baby clothes, furs, and small business opportunities with incomplete addresses and red phone numbers.

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War Congress Opens Faces Big Problems

The session opens amid heavy political stakes with elections due for 32 senators and the full House. Democrats hold Senate and House majorities, while key war measures, suffrage questions, and labor policies dominate the agenda. PACIFIST AGITATION faces renewed debate as La Follette and Hardwick push repeal efforts.

House Senate Finsting Chamberlain Sheppard Susan B. Anthony Clark Webb Shields Colombia Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Chamberlain Senator Calder Pomerene WAR Commission Wilson Weeks Massachusetts Fitzgerald House Appropriations Committee la Follette Hardwick Georgia Sherman Ilinois Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Train Wreck Cause Cited as Broken Rod Deflects Troop Cars

Chicago reports 7 soldiers and civilians injured when a troop train derailed near Granger Illinois. Officials say a broken rod beneath the engine dragged a brake line, opened a switch, and deflected cars from the main track in a clear mechanical failure.

Chicago Harold Schmalz Szymon Ajtya Ilenets Central Railroad Granger Ill T. J. Foley Mr. Foley Camp Grant

Markets firm as oats and provisions gain on Seaboard demand

Chicago December market notes firm oats and higher provisions as Seaboard buying lifts prices. Heavy corn receipts discounted but light arrivals and stronger car shipments supported futures with January at 1.20 and May near 1.18 to 1.19. Fresh seaboard demand and hog supply constraints kept lard firm and prices buoyant.

Chicago Seaboard Emand Ira Reo Lee Vanes Ck Eis Pork Cats Éil Nribis

Market notes and grain quotes from multiple cities

Chicago cash quotations and grain prices across Chicago Toledo Minneapolis and other markets. Includes corn oats and other grain values with cash and December and January futures where listed. Also reports New York and London financials with stock and bond movements and a wartime telegraph office gag.

Hog and cattle prices steady as Chicago market holds

Chicago buyers show restraint as hogs and cattle receipts stay high. Hog quotes range around 16.5 to 17.2 for various classes, while cattle prices hold with natives at 7.0 to 14.75 and westerns 6.1 to 13.4. Sheep quotes soften with lambs 12.4 to 16.85 and yearlings 12.6 to 24.00.

Market Receipts and Prices for Hogs Cattle Sheep and Horses

St Louis market receipts show hogs 15 000 head steady with prices 17.00 to 17.40 for choicest heavy. cattle receipts 9 000 slow with steers 15.78 calves 13.7. sheep receipts 1 800 steady with lambs 13.00 to 17.00 and ewes 10.00 to 11.05. East St Louis Illinois horses 85 to 120. mules 200 to 250. draft horses 115 to 150 with varying heights and bids.

Chicago Kansas City Omaha Neb St Louis East St. Louis

Prices and dairy eggs in major markets December 3

Chicago reports butter at 38 4ic, eggs unsettled with 5 040 cases received, potatoes steady with 42 cars from midwest. Kansas City shows butter 38 42c, eggs firsts 44c, poultry hens 14c. New York lists butter 49 50c, eggs 59 60c extras, cheese 23 24c. St Louis notes poultry prices hens 11c, springs 21c, turkeys 28c. raw sugar nominal at 6.70 dollars per 100 pounds.

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Waterloo Markets listing a variety of farm goods prices

The Waterloo market page lists grain and feed items like old oats and corn, and a wide range of livestock prices including grass fed steers, butcher cows, hogs of various weights, as well as dairy products such as creamery butter and lard. It also notes hay, straw, potatoes, poultry, hides, and greens with numerical prices.

Bologna Butler

Veal kips and calves listed with grades and weights

Auction catalog fragment lists No 1 and No 2 veal kips green 15-25 lbs and cured 15-25 lbs. Also No 1 and No 2 veal calves green and cured. Mentions two mares, a mule and two mule hides and 400s 00 in total.

Bank clearings and local obituaries in Vinton Iowa

Bank clearings in the United States for the week ending Nov 29 totaled 4 907 499 660 with declines from the prior week and year. Vinton reports the severe illness of Mrs Isa belle Mowbray paraly sis and the death of Roy Hayes of Boulder Colorado aged about 34, burial to be in Vinton. he was born there and survived by his wife and eight year old daughter.

United States Vinton Vinton Isajbelle Mowbray

New Universities Dictionary Distribution Begins for Readers

The newspaper launches the first series of The New Universities Dictionaries. Readers must present three coupons from different days at the office for a volume, with a 98 cent fee. Out-of-town readers may mail coupons plus postage and fee. The volume includes 1,200 pages and 25 supplementary dictionaries, with color illustrations and comparative images of aircraft like serp planes and Blerfiot monoplane examples.

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