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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1912
Page
4
An old style grocery ad lists numerous items with per unit prices including dried fruits, nuts, crackers, milk, soap, wax beans, butter, Crisco, and brooms. The prices range from 15 cents to 40 cents per pound or per unit, reflecting a mid 20th century listing.
Chicago market news reports a bullish wave on wheat with May futures touching highs before profit taking trimmed gains. Cattle and hogs showed mixed moves with heavy hog selling easing late. cattle opened lower then softened. oats rose on spring demand amid steady butter and dairy trends in Chicago.
An Dunkerton Iowa notice covers a late February Methodist Episcopal service on Sunday at 7 30 pm with Miss Lillian Margee leading a ritual program. Choirs perform Stainers Softly Now the Light of Day and a mixed quartet closes with a social number. Passi on week begins March climaxing Easter April 7 with daily services except Saturday. Special events include a magic show by Rev J F Black and a Civil War lecture by Capt J F Merry.
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending Thursday February 29 1912 totaled 1 198 906 59 with daily figures for Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday and Wednesday listed and compared to the prior year. Total instruments recorded for the week include deeds mortgages chattel mortgages and bills of sale totaling 2 and showing a decrease from last year.
Major A W Putt personal aide to President Taft granted leave of absence for one month and 24 days. He will sail from New York for the Mediterranean on Saturday. Ill health followed a westward trip last fall. He had served Roosevelt as a personal aide before Taft.
New Orleans reports the paddle packet J. E. Trudeau burned to the water’s edge at Saint Gabriel, 100 miles above New Orleans. Eight crewmen are missing and believed drowned after the blaze at 2 o’clock this morning. The article also notes a name origin for actor Edward H. Sothern and a brief social vignette about inheritance plans.
On February 29 the leap year date deprives Miss Berghaus of a birthday anniversary. At East High yesterday five girls in the commercial department staged a speed contest during assembly hour, Nellie Truak taking honors. Funeral services for infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H Schott Cedar Falls will be held Friday at 2 PM at grandparents’ home with Rev. Vallant officiating.
Mrs. Lian Long Griffith of Har lan state organizer of the P E O society will inspect Chapter 7 in Waterloo tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. E B Smith 118 Iowa street with Mrs F W Robertson and Miss FE L Johnson as hostesses. Griffith is in Cedar Falls this afternoon and Independence this evening en route through Traer and other stops. The event aims to draw a large turnout to greet the visiting state leader.
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