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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1913
Page
9
Ad reads discounted children's plastic Carters items at 10c with upcoming spring millinery and Birgess tailored shits noting tomorrow's sale event.
Cedar Falls notes detail residents traveling, visiting relatives, and community events. Highlights include Miss Lenore Silliman visiting from Mt. Vernon, Harry Ott catching a runaway horse, Miss Fagan hosting a district schoolhouse meeting on agriculture, and local residents moving or changing jobs. The item also mentions anniversaries, illness, bank examiner visits, and a mistaken robbery report.
Weather Iowa forecast fair with warmer west tonight and Saturday. Chicago markets show wheat strength early on firm cables but decline due to abundant supplies. Corn and oats softer on good belt weather while pork and other provisions rise on limited hogs. South Omaha cattle and hogs viewed with steady to higher openings. cattle steady natives and feeders, hogs higher with bulk sales around 8.00 to 8.20. Sheep receipts noted with yearlings and rams listed.
Chicago at the hog market opened five cents higher with ranges for mixed to heavy hogs from 8.15 to 8.60. The close remained slow after the early gain with most classes quoted around 8.25 to 8.60. Estimated receipts for tomorrow run about 9,000 head, with 15,000 hogs left over from yesterday.
The piece argues advertising proves profitable as merchants grow through strategic ads. It urges readers to watch store ads and notes the Water Loop Evening Courier’s strong circulation, claiming it outperforms Otter Papers in reach.
Cedar Falls announces the Central Oil and Refining company with $50,000 capital to manufacture lubricating oils and greases. Directors named are Dr. Knickerbocker F. S. Schmidt and N. E. Wild with offices at 2119 College Street.
Washington February 28 Dr Frankison A Lima special minister from Salvador to the United States was received by Secretary of State Knox and presented credentials. He arrives on the eve of inauguration day duties. A final bankruptcy hearing for Town Stave and Range works is set for Monday with Referee Merriau.
The cattle market opened and closed strong in Chicago on February 28. Beeres traded around 6.85 to 9.00, Texas steers 5.20 to 6.00, Western steers 6.00 to 7.75, and cows and heifers 3.25 to 7.70.
Rock Island trials replace old wooden shanties with metal flagman cabins along the system. The Waterloo experiment shows portable, windproof, sanitary metal structures. Ben Eaton becomes the first occupant in the new metal home at the Fourth and Bluff crossing.
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