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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
5
The Waterloo Evening Courier explains its want ad policy with a one cent per word rate and a minimum 25 cent charge. It notes lines in light and black caps and emphasizes that ads should be descriptive to improve effectiveness and readership.
Advertising page with a mix of sale notices for poultry household goods furniture and various items. Includes contact hints and pricing fragments from multiple sellers and locations, typical of a late 19th or early 20th century classified section.
Classified notices reflect multiple listings for a mix of real estate, furniture for charity auction, second hand goods, stoves, livestock including a buck sheep and pigs, poultry, furnished rooms with utilities, and a request for help at a hotel lobby. Contact details include phone numbers and street names such as East Waterloo, 93-07 Pies street east, and Loop Car area.
Aplington reports that Miss Bya Dethihs teaches second grade this week while Miss Matildin De Reek aids her sister Miss Jeanette who is recovering after surgery. Mrs. Sforner of Pinersan Nebraska visits the area this week.
Proceedings show City Council and Board of Health debating wartime hospital care and facility needs. Officials discuss better facilities than the present emergency hospital for pneumonia and fever patients, with Red Cross input and state guard involvement.
Captain C F Gardner attends Minnesota horticulture meeting in Minneapolis then visits Cedar Falls and Des Moines to connect with Iowa horticultural societies. Memorial services for Crawford held at Universalist church. Local residents receive government postings and wartime assistance. Mitchell County honors holiday turnout and war stamp purchases totaling $15 108.
In Gilbertville, residents Dee B Len Schaefter and others are confined at home with grippe like illness. Frank Vernont, Josephine, Matty Welhins, and Agnes Meisch are reported affected, with limited travel and local impacts.
A lengthy list of names linked to German propaganda efforts is presented along with testimonies about Dr Hale and others. The document notes payments, communications, and perceived influence operations, including references to Bernstorff and Bielaski, and mentions attempts to influence U.S. media like the Sun and the New York Post.
In St Joseph Missouri during December cattle and hog markets show receipts around 8 000 hogs and 2 500 cattle with slow to steady activity. Hogs top near 1760 to 1760 17 50 per hundredweight. cattle including steers cows and calves range up to 15.00 correspondingly. sheep and lambs bring 9.00 to 15.50 with ewes around 4.00 to 9.50.
A feature light stock market session opens with dull trading and a few issues showing gains from the prior day. Beet Sugar advances 115 points on a 5 percent move while oils, mining equipment, shippings and steels show irregular activity. Courtesy price quotes from commodities and Liberty bond prices are included, with notable activity in tobaccos and hog futures.
A reception at the Congregational church honored Rev. and Mrs. James Thompson with city officials and church ministers in attendance. Mrs. Paul Carpenter visits, while several locals return home from army service camps including Hancock Pike Tridge and Camp Pike with Honorable discharges.
Trading opened barely changed and advanced to gains as bears shifted to the bull side briefly. Prices moved, then weakness emerged on reports of shelling and reduced movement, closing lower for January and February amid slow provisions trading and little interest in hogs.
Receipts total about 11 000 hogs and 11 000 cattle with steady to lower trend from yesterday. Good to prime beef calves, steers and bulls hold value while other classes ease. butcher stock and culls show wider spreads across range markets.
Kansas City livestock receipts show 3,000 steady trades across categories. Feeder steers bring 18.00 to 20.00, cows 25 to 36 dollars, heifers around 12 to 14, and sheep and hogs in the 8.25 to 9.25 range per head as markets hold steady in the latest tally.
Market report from St Louis shows cattle and hog prices mostly steady to lower. Hog receipts 14 005 head with mixed classes offered. steer and heifer prices range from about 9 to 18 dollars while cows and calves also listed. Sheep receipts around 60 with ewes priced near 8 to 9 dollars and lambs 15 dollars range.
Sioux City market receipts total 2,000 cattle and 300 sheep with prices inclining for steers 8 to 15 dollars, stockers and feeders 7 to 17, cows and heifers around 5.60 to 15.50, and mixed lots trading near steady despite lighter demand. Report notes prices and commodity mix for the day in Sioux City Newfoundland market listings.
Omaha Nebraska hogs receipts 11,300 steady to 10 cents lower with heavy hogs 16.76 to 17.40, mixed 15.10 to 18.18, sows 17.10 to 17.30, pigs 10.00 to 10.40, bulk 27.15 to 27.40. cattle receipts 2,900 steady to higher with steers 11.00 to 18.50, cows and heifers 7.00 to 12.00, calves 7.00 to 13.50. Sheep receipts 4,400 steady to higher with ewes 7.50 to 9.00, lambs 13.QU to 15.15.
New York reports butter and cheese prices with varied receipts and grades while Chicago notes butter unchanged and poultry mixed. Kansas City and Minneapolis markets show steady to lower butter and poultry prices with fresh and old stock differences.
Bronsop urnite Agency promotes fire alarms with a safety advertisement urging readers to play it safe and insure properties against fire risks. The ad emphasizes protection and preparedness.
Bank clearings show totals for December week with Dubuque, Des Moines, Chicago routes and Omaha connections. Rail timetables list arrivals and departures at Union depots in Oelwein Des Moines and Cedar Rapids with numerous local and express services, plus notes on wartime service and local incidents.
Dunkerton report notes Plunkerton secretary and Clarence Miller visiting Rudd to greet friends, return Sunday, and Monday a party of about 30 Mrs. Millers guests held a sleighing gathering with supper at the bride’s home. The couple will be at home after December 13 at the L. Smith house. Ells remains confined to bed. Mrs Cruise directs rehearsals for a home talent play The Damn The Girls to be staged Wednesday December 38.
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