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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1917
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows ad copy for Wells Flour Milling Co offering a 25 cent check cashing incentive on sacks prior to a date, and Linninger's Coal and Feed Co listed with a phone number 512. The readable text hints at local business promotions and a trade-related notice in a small-town newspaper.
Notice from Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter explains that ads marked till forbid require a written order to discontinue, due to possible telephone errors. Advertisers are given printed blanks to fill and return, with a memo specifying deadlines by 10 a.m. to avoid next day discontinuation.
Real estate advertisement touts a Farm for sale in Florida acreage and irrigation options. Describes Sandy loam soil, crops including vegetables and fruits, livestock, and proximity to transportation. Offers loans, no tax on improvements, and twenty year terms via Canadian Pacific Ry. Calgary office.
Medical advertisement describing cures for piles fistula and rectal diseases without surgery. Offers guaranteed cure with payment only after success and references a book of testimonials. Provides address Dr C Clement 514? Good Block Des Moines and asks for subscribers and dealer opportunities. Also notes poultry ad and truck dealer opportunity with Waterloo factory branch.
Real estate loans on city property or farms offered by a securities company. Also transfer and storage of pianos and household goods. Clean dry storage with superior service by The Boyd Transfer Co in Minneapolis Minnesota. Cut rates for Pacific coast shipments and other points. Parsons phone 41.
Dysart hosted the Twenty second annual PTA and Sunday school convention of the Cedar Rapids district at the Evangelical church from the 12th to I with a geo program and delegates from district towns. Nearby bands from Dport City Reinbeck and Traer gave concerts the first three evenings and Dysart and Skools orchestra performed the remaining nights with dances after each concert.
Reports from Janesville describe a series of Heart warming meetings at the M B&B church from January 2 through January 14 led by pastor Mrs F C Davis. Other notes include hospital stays for Mrs F C Davis, Mrs Tt A Bicker, and Miss Tiste Mowe seeking treatment in Rochester and Cedar Pass.
Nashua notes report residents facing heart trouble and appendicitis, moves within town, and a sale of the Webber place to Herman Osterman Sr. Messages announce deaths in Oklahoma and a Los Angeles trip. Local business change sees P. Miller exit the cat market for Davidson and Sable Knight meat market. Horton updates mention illnesses, a wedding in St. Ansgar, and a cemetery society gathering.
Market notes show wheat closing nervously down after a day of volatility. May and July contracts slipped while buyers were mainly from leading houses and bears were largely pit traders. Corn followed wheat and oats moved with local activity. Provisions weakened as hog receipts rose across the market.
Chicago cash livestock report notes abundant hog supply driving prices lower while cattle and sheep show mixed to steady to strong movement. Hogs receipts 71,000. cattle 24,000. sheep 18,000 with varied prices across categories and outlook for tomorrow.
Chicago cash wheat and corn prices vary by grade with No 3 red at 21.90%, No 2 yellow around 73.3, No 4 yellow near 95 to 97, white and mixed lots listed with assorted cents. Oats and flax show May and July bids. Minneapolis and Winnipeg futures supply May prices with wheat near 1.86 to 1.75 in May and July. Signs of broad market activity across grains and locations.
Market news from Waterloo listing prices and goods for sale. Includes cattle categories from fair butcher steers to premium hogs with weights and prices, dairy products like creamery and dairy butter, eggs, potatoes, hay baled, various hides and veal kips, and poultry items. Also notes wholesale and retail price observations and farm produce details.
Kansas City livestock receipts: hogs 12 060, cattle 6.00, sheep 14 000. Hogs market opened lower with bulk sales 10.25 to 10.50, heavy 10.66 to 10.65, packers 10.40 to 10.80. Cattle opened steady. prime fed steers 10.75 to 11.50, dressed beef steers 9.50 to 10.75, western steers 7.10 to 11.00, cows 5.25 to 9.00, heifers 6.50 to 11.00, stockers 6.25 to 9.00, calves 6.50 to 11.50. Sheep receipts 14 000. market opened lower. Lambs 12.75 to 13.40, yearlings 11.25 to 12.26, wethers 8.75 to 10.00, ewes 5.50 to 9.50.
South Omaha Neb January 10 cattle receipts 6200 market steady native steers 7.50 to 11.80 cows and heifers 6.50 to 8.50 western steers 6.70 to 9.25 Texas steers 6.25 to 7.65 canners 5.00 to 6.00 stockers and feeders 6.25 to 9.00 hogs receipts 2400 market lower heavy 10.25 to 10.69 wide 9.90 to 10.40. sows 10.00 to 10.40. sheep receipts 15000 market steady yearlings 9.25 to 11.25 ewes and lambs 5.60 to 13.25.
Chicago market notes dated January 16 show butter prices lower at creameries around 32 qrs and eggs unchanged with receipts totaling 7,652 cases. Hide sales list No 1 horse hides at 6,807 dollars and No 2 horse hides at 2,222 dollars and 22.35 to 50 dollars per unit.
New York market notes include butter receipts 8,040 tubs and creameries 40% 46.15?. eggs receipts 2,826 cases with fresh gathered extra firsts 12 cents. Cheese steady with state specials 24 24 1/2 cents. Poultry dressed steady, chicks 21 26 cents, fowls 15 23 cents, turkeys 20 22 cents. Raw sugar centrifugal 5.39 per hundredweight. refined fine granulated 6.75.
Samson Bros. Chicago reports wheat fluctuated, slipping after a morning rally as investors cautious amid peace propaganda publicity. Cash wheat demand abated. new crop weather outlook strengthens eventual scarcity and high prices. Corn tracks wheat with bullish signals but limited investment. export absorption reduces country offerings. Oats struggle to gain strength but global demand may push values higher amid growing appetite.
Miss Ions Everson of Cedar Falls visited Finchford last week. Derwood Lowell suffered a painful arm injury after a horse kicked him. Mir and Mrs. Willis of Ballentine and their son Beri left Finchford last Thursday for New...
Real estate notice for two adjoining farms in Black Hawk County near Jesup Iowa within the Independent Consolidated School District. Farm No 1 is 50 acres with dwelling, barns, 60 by 24 hog house, fences and wind mill. leased for 6.09 per acre in 1917. Farm No 2 comprises 50 acres, SW quarter and W half SE quarter and SE quarter of SE quarter in Section 13 Two Eighty Nine R11 W of the 7th P. M. and features two-story dwelling, 49 by 72 barn, granary, wells, orchard, and livestock facilities. Possession March 1 1917. Interested parties urged to attend with offers near Jesup town site.
The notice lists residents spending winter months in Orleans and Tennessee including Carl Geisler on the Willam Hedlentine farm through March 1. It notes John Maidsohn Jr. returning from South Dakota, church and lodge meetings, a wooden hall installation, an oyster supper, and activity at the Creamery. The large section records real estate transfers in Waterloo and Cedar Falls with buyers and parcel details.
A letter parade from patients across Iowa touts Shallenberger treatment for conditions from rheumatism and sciatica to kidney, stomach, catarrh and gastritis. Names include Mary Kramer Garner Ta and Mrs J J Arney Albion Ta with claims of lasting relief and health restoration after years of illness.
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