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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1919
Page
3
The Waterlay newspaper outlines price rules for want ads, charging one cent per word with a 25 cent minimum and a two line paid minimum for dash lines. It notes a shift to higher minimums and emphasizes want ads as a community marketplace in Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter.
Classified card notes thanks and lodge notices alongside room and house rentals. Listings include a six month rent option, read like a local help wanted and housing page with telephone contact and room details. Various rooms described as furnished with hot water and convenient amenities.
Real estate listing offers a seven room modern house with garage and other facilities. Includes goods and furniture. advertised as nicest place in the city with contact at Trapster on Bivinge Gul. Also mentions storage, transferring, and shipping services by Boyd Transfer Co and long Warehouse Ca. Phone 246.
Real Estate notices show properties around Waterloo including farms near Waterloo, 40 acre and 10 acre tracts, vacant lots, and modern houses with features. Listings mention price adjustments, terms, and owners or agents such as W. W. Gaston and Chas. S. Bleksey Co. among others. Local development and investment opportunities highlighted with varying soil quality and location proximity to towns.
A jumble of classified items for sale and trade. Pianos, bicycles, gas ovens, furniture, coal, engines, fowl, and secondhand goods offered by local sellers with contact numbers and locations. Also notes on corporate bylaws and stockholder meeting rights appears among the listings.
Chicago reports corn prices firm as light arrivals and favorable weather expectations support values. Nearby contracts rise modestly while oats move with corn. traders note demand slowings but bears pressured by Argentina labor troubles and steady futures.
Chicago and other market reports show hogs priced about ten cents under Saturday averages with receipts around 1 000 to 2 000. Cattle arrivals steady to lower with varied prices for steers, cows, calves, and stockers across Omaha Sioux City St Louis Kansas City and St Joseph reports. Multiple markets note lighter demand and slower sales, with hogs and cattle showing softness in price and activity.
Reports from New York and Chicago dated February 24 detail firmer creamery butter with higher receipts, lower egg prices, and stable poultry markets. Cheese, potatoes, and frozen chicken prices show mixed movements while overall stock and bond activity and money markets reflect renewed buying in industrials and commodities.
In Rockford on Tuesday a son was born to Mr and Mrs George Squier and a daughter arrived for Mr and Mrs Adolph Rachue. Mrs William Marchant recovers from a serious operation. The Farnham family welcomes a new daughter. William Snyder sold his residence to Lydia Yerkes for 2506. John Bichmeier shipped six cars of stock. Mayor Wallace has been seriously ill this past week. Henry Bichmeier has purchased the
Market report from Waterloo dated February 74 1918 lists dairy butter price trends and creamery notes. Mentions Grange associations and local producers with pricing signals and market conditions for butter and supply.
Swift & Co. releases a 680 page year book featuring a banner cover with a five nation ally monogram and illustrations. It blends company finances with yearly meat production statistics and highlights the Swift dollar diagram showing distribution of receipts to livestock labor and profit.
Reinbeck notes list Uncle George Watson dies after paralysis at home February 19. Newborn Philys Pearl Drake born January 5 to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Drake of Morrison. J. Biebesheimer leaves First Savings bank for Sigourney Citizens Savings as cashier, to move when a house is found. Oratorical contest highlights Reinbeck high with Elsie Koberg first and Guay Wagner second, Koberg to sub district at Grundy Center March 14.
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