Waterloo Want Ads Reach All Readers at One Cent Per Word
The Waterloo Evening Courier announces want ads priced at 1 cent per word with a 25 cent minimum. It explains formatting rules, caps, and line treatments, noting a broader change in advertising practice to keep ads descriptive and effective. The department is described as a distinct institution serving all citizens for buying selling or exchanging items big or small.
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Watertoo
Courier
Boper Inc
Wanted Agents and Tailoring Help for Trade Mission
Classified style notice seeking agents and tailors for a trade venture. Mentions paid work, credit options, and recruitment across multiple locations with references to specific names and firms. Vague phrases indicate overseas and domestic sales emphasis.
Wanted Miscellaneous and Real Estate Ads Mix in 1930s Paper
A cluttered classified section lists Wanted items including a second hand grinder bicycles phonographs and other misc gear. Also seeks a 160 acre farm near Waterlight with price and terms, and buyers looking for bargain properties around Jefferson Street. Various services mention storage and trucking with office addresses and contact details.
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Carson Musi
Shay Deel
Ourler
Jefferson St. Dee
M. Z. Konuner & Co
Hosuald Gikeven
Tully
Allen
Forest Des Molairs
Livestock Prices Higher Despite Week Ago
Prices for cattle hogs and sheep edged up from last week as traders noted firmer demand. The report, though partially obscured by OCR errors, indicates sustained higher values across major livestock categories with buyers remaining cautious on future trades.
Help Wanted and Real Estate Ads Mix From Local Paper
Classifieds offer factory sales careers with travel, housing, and commissions. furnace ads, job openings for kitchen work, and farm and real estate loans cross with notices for sale of goods and livestock. Local listings include cars, potatoes, coal, and appliances, plus personal notices and lost items.
STOCKS AND BONDS. Colton NY Dec 28 1953
Stocks and bonds report a volatile session with Marine preferred slipping on British opposition to tonnage sales, Liberty bonds active, United States Steel and rail stocks gaining in late trading, and overall market closing firm amid heavy for the day. Weathered by summaries of cotton futures and local market prices for dairy, butter, potatoes, and grain in Waterloo and New York shipping notes.
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Waterloo
Seluiqut
Deraiur
Towa
Vane
Newtat Jewelry Company
Cleveland
Ohio
Eno
Wren
Colton
New York
Marine Preferred
Talkis
Brooklyn Transit
Liberty
Shorts
I ‘Marine
Seai
Jcons
Sinclair Oil and Utilities
United States Steel and Investment Rails
Pacific Group
Atchison
Iteading
BOY Alchixon Ve SB Raldywin Locomotive
Frultimare & Ers
Peta
Fethlehem Steel
Canadian Pacific
Gentrud Panther
Bitcharienne
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago
Mil
St. Mant
Bi & Ng Gorn
Krocena Gane Serete Bologna Buils
Moters
Saah Nanny
Great Renhein
Marine Pta
Maewell Motor OA
Cer
Cesar Ee
Seemark
Central Peers
Northern Pacific
Khaled
Wee
Southaven Tughway Poultry
Studebaker Ca
Union Vacitie
Weekly Grain and Provision Review summary notes market shifts
The report details scarce supplies pressuring corn into late deliveries, with price moves varied and near-term futures mixed. Adverse storms hinder shelling and wagon traffic, keeping movement weak while stocks sit near lows. Feeding demand appears to have peaked, moderating bullish sentiment. Provisions show continued excess supply but steadied by foreign meal needs and hog price expectations around 17.50. Liberty bond prices and London money rates are listed.
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Corm
Seaboard
Navy Owl
Christmas servicescancelled by illness in Aplington
In Aplington Sec 28 the Christmas exercises at churches were canceled due to influenza affecting Miss Anna Tiedens. Spirit Lake traveler Mrs Tiedens expected to return home Tuesday night. Mn Marck and family returned from James Thursday after visiting his brother and wife. Miss Freda Rients came from Chane last week to spend the holiday at home. Mr and Mrs George Niher welcomed a baby girl born Saturday. The Arend Dreyer family also affected by influenza this week.
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Clarksville
Hie
Harveyr Houton
Bro
Chandler
Ariz
Dan Msther
Crosby Garage
Clintard
Mather
A. Hurt
James
France
Bee
Bert Hagarty
Aplington
Anna Tiedens
Hla Lo
Tiedens
Mn Marck
Freda Rients
Chane
CASTLE HILL COMMUNITY NEWS AND VISITOR NOTES
Castle Hill December social page reports Mr and Mrs Allan Us of Minneapolis attending Christmas services following a funeral in Clarksville. Local residents update on influenza cases and recoveries, school reopenings, Red Cross progress, and planned New Year open house picnic with community supper and shared dishes.
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Glendola Knowles
Greeley
Coin
J. Dean
Robert
Bay Hiver
Mini
Dean
Edith Hanna Knapp
Johnson
H. 2
Sauman
Little Louise
Delta Crateley
Fairbanks
Crateley
Chicago
New York City
C. J. Shaw
Linden Jubilees and LocalVisits in Iowa Falls
Linden December letters and notices recount visits by Mr and Mrs George Highley to Iowa Falls as J W Chapman plans a return from Robertson. Other items note influenza-related funeral promotions, Sophia Weltzin’s advancement, Hazel Lemper and Willie Lors illness, and Mrs Fannie Griffith’s brief health update.
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Sophia Weltzin Hay
Hazel Lemper
Willie Lors
Fannie Griffith
Sioux City Livestock Receipts and Market Notes
Receipts from Sioux City Livestock show various cattle and stocker feeder categories with prices. limited legible figures include beef cattle and feeding cows with per hundredweight ranges, plus sheep notes and feeder prices, amid unclear OCR.
Livestock and Produce Prices Across Markets
Market notes from St Joseph and Peoria report Hogs at higher cap, cows and heifers steady, lambs at 12 dollars, ewes 7.00. New York butter and eggs show mixed but mostly firm. Chicago and Omaha grain show mixed corn, oats, and white corn prices. Kansas City and St Louis quote butter and poultry unchanged.
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Chicago
Dee
Bureau of Markets
Eulet
Caylee
Si Lows
Goi
Culver
St Joseph
New York
Jstack
Peoria
Omaha
Deo
Agutter
Nad White
Kansas Kansas City
St. To
Sb Louis
Manchester Couple Visit Daughter Amid War Wounds
A Manchester couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bagby, visited their daughter Mrs. Hannel and other relatives while their son Roy, currently with the Iitiation division Insurance, was wounded and hospitalized in New York City.
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Ter
Roy
Iitiation Division Insurance
New York City
Mrs. Bagby
Manchester
Mrs
Hannel
Barclay Center Notes For December Health Update
Henry Wyerenberg, 41, died after influenza and pneumonia at Barclay Center. Ted Turner of Brandon remains visiting his brother J G Turner. Several EB, K Rice Cataily members are recovering from the flu.
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Barclay Center
Henry Wyerenberg
Ted Turner
Brandon
J. G. Turner
K Rice Cataily
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Greenhouse
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Legen Ave
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Lee R. Swinehart
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Passien
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