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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1919
Page
8
A funeral notice expresses gratitude from Mr. and Mrs. Yeager and relatives for kindness and floral offerings after the death of their baby Beatrice. Various ads follow, including car listings, real estate and services, and a market report on corn and oats with prices and trading notes.
Chicago markets show hog receipts around 30 500 with steady prime and heavy weights. Cattle supplies across Kansas City East St Louis and Sioux City varied from lower medium to good with prices uneven for steers cows and veal calves.
The notice cites the regular annual meeting of Black Hawk National Bank stockholders in Waterloo Iowa set for January 13 1920 at 10 am with named officials. It includes a public auction of real estate by Black Hawk County authorities to satisfy a writ, and lists commodity prices for butter corn oats eggs cheese and related market data from various locations.
The Waterloo market report includes stock and bond activity, foreign exchange pressures, and notable rebounds in Canadian Pacific and other rails. Liberty bond prices and commodity prices such as potatoes and creamery butter are listed, with overall cautious trading and various sector recoveries and declines.
Middleton Conn. Wesleyan University psychology head Ray mond Dodge says there is no true unselfishness. He argues all people act from selfish motives, even missionaries and martyrs, with only apparent self sacrifice.
War shortages ease as several republics resume stamp issuance. Uruguay produces a panoramic Montevideo view from a telephoto, while Chile’s historic and portrait series remain noted for detailed engraving. The Chilean issues include independence oath scenes and depictions of Columbus to Balmaceda.
Anton Dankovich faced a judge after police found him staggering near a straw. He claimed a five cent story and moonshine led to his sickness, but the court fined him one dollar and twenty cents for the presumed intoxication and the implausible purchase.
Middletown Connecticut Howard Jackson mistook a five dollar gold plate offering for a penny on the church plate after services. He asked for the donation back but the treasurer refused noting both he and the church needed the money. They compromised with a 60 50 split of the funds.
Classified ad bursts present sales jobs and errands, seeking men with drive but not necessarily experience. It lists positions and goods for sale from The Basket Grocery, including food items, home goods, rents, and rewards, with contact numbers and locations in the city.
The article notes the biblical account of Abraham’s sojourn at Mamre Hebron where he built an altar and where a great oak is said to stand as a shared sacred marker for Christians Jews and Muslims. It attributes preservation of the lone tree in a Turkish cleared landscape to cross religious protection. Also described is a Colombian inventor patenting a device to convert light locomotives into stationary engines by replacing front axle gear wheels.
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