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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1918
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier urges readers to use want ads, noting rates as low as one cent per word with a 25 cent minimum. It argues the ads fill a local marketplace, offering space for sales, services, and exchanges, while stressing the newspaper’s role as a civic institution.
Cards of thanks note a regul ar meeting with election of officers from Waterloo Chapter No. 128 Order of Munstern Star to be held Wednesday evening at Masonic hall. Machinists Local No. 114 holds a regular meeting this evening at o clock with full attendance urged for important business.
Classified blur of numerous automobiles homes and goods for sale with scattered items across 1910s era text. Entries include for sale vehicles real estate clothing and general merchandise plus requests for stenographer and other services. The legible fragments reference to Maxwell car price 4839 and multiple farm and property notices.
An article notes a wartime inquiry into propaganda funds with references to Mr. Mears and paid propagandists. It questions profits from the German government or agents and mentions continuing investigations from page one.
Local committees including Ming Palmer and Mrs. A. E. Hoffman meet at the courthouse to list homes needing Christmas cheer and arrange calls. The central committee includes Rev. J. R. Macartney and Miss Ada Palmer with multiple named members and a Boy Scouts adjunct.
Greene reports describe Ben Beal improving after flu illness, the death of Mrs. Albert Boggs from flu and pneumonia, a third death from the same disease this week. Len and Mrs. Lucas relocate to town, Trask and Watts wed in Dougherty, the couple to spend winter in Orlando. Beatrice Johnston improves after Presbyterian hospital stay, visitors quarantined for flu then return home. Mildred Blumer travels to Cedar Falls for vocal study. Homer Woodling very ill with flu and complications. Rope family ties and travel noted. mother in California summoned.
Chicago records a broad advance as short covering and light offerings lift grains and hog markets. Opening prices firm, then gains across corn and oats with February and May contracts higher. provisions steady as hog values buoy shipments of meats and lard.
Hogs receipts 42 000 with price moves mixed from yesterday’s levels. Cattle receipts 25 000 with good weight steers steady to higher and feeders weaker. calves and butcher stock show varied values. Sheep receipts steady with lambs firm and ewes easing in Chicago market reports. Winthrop and Marble Rock local notes include army dispatches, births, and influenza updates.
Local items report George Mathews wounded in France and still in England, Kate Leehey aiding an aged father, and Mrs Joe Netts bereaved in Stockon. City motions authorize clerks and staff budgets, and a sanitation spending measure is approved. Orangemen promise annual hazard and charity events with numerous local volunteers listed. Dollar figures note Red Cross support and service flags update. Prank Hayes returns from Dodge and a new service flag is unveiled. Reverend H H Steger resigns for a call to News Hall, with family relocating.
Frederika area notes include weddings, deaths, and student visits. The report mentions Mrs Thelma Bergman of near Frederika and Frederick Wasmerty visiting, plus local church events and school activities as winter sets in.
Market report from St Louis notes cattle receipts at 9,000 with steer and heifer ranges from 7.56 to 12.50. Hogs and sheep show steady prices with lambs around 15 to 17.50 and ewes near 3.00 to 3.63, reflecting a balanced day for the livestock market.
The item notes the death of Hiarl P. Holmes and outlines his life from schooling to family. It also logs regional market prices for New York milk products and grain markets in Chicago and St. Paul with various No numbered lots and price points.
United Press reports the Red Cross will place stockings and Christmas trees in French hospital wards for every wounded American. Nurses, patients, and enlisted men will be remembered with fruit, candy, nuts, figs, and cards. Famous singers will perform, with films, games, and children visiting hospitals on Christmas Day.
Baltimore Shipbuilding and Drydock Co gives free medical care by five city doctors to about 17,000 employees during a flu outbreak and creates a discretionary relief fund for workers’ homes, praised by the U S S employment service as practical humanitarian action.
Market notes list prices for flour barley cattle hogs and veal with premiums on hogs and hay and straw offerings. Farm buyers and packers appear in scattered figures including weights and prices for various cattle and hay products.
Market moves follow optimistic remarks from Gary of United States Steel. Steel and related industries advance while rails lag. Liberty bonds hit a new low at 95.62. Trading closes strong with about 410,000 shares.
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