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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
6
A dense jumble of early 20th century help wanted notices lists various positions and applicants. Listings include shop laborer delivery boys salesmen clerks nurses maids cooks and other roles with addresses and contact hints for each posting.
Grain cars to elevators reportedly loaded with wheat sparked mixed views among corn dealers in Chicago. Opening prices ranged from unchanged to up, then fluctuated with hogs and seaboard buying aiding a late rally before closing nervously higher. Cash quotations show varied No 3 and No 4 yellow and white corn values in Chicago. Real estate and other listings appear in the same market page.
Chicago and Omaha livestock quotes show hogs mostly 30 to 40 cents higher than Wednesday with firm cattle tone. Receipts near 46,000 hogs and 11,000 cattle in Chicago, plus 13,000 hogs and 6,500 cattle in Omaha. best prices cited for heavy and prime beef steers and assorted hogs, sows, and calves across markets in East St. Louis and Kansas City.
London reports two Americans killed and three wounded in clash with an armored train commanded by Gen Semenoff. New York notes the death of Detroit automobile maker John Dodge from pneumonia. Berlin tallies riot casualties near the Reichstag. Oregon ratifies the national equal suffrage amendment. Local real estate transfers and commodity price listings follow in Cedar Falls Waterloo and Sioux City markets.
Multiple commodity and market briefings show butter and poultry prices steady or lower in New York and Chicago. Liberty bond quotes and mercantile paper rates listed. Waterloo and St Louis markets note varied butter, eggs, and meat prices with stock and bond movements.
In St Joseph Missouri on January 15 hog receipts reached 11 000 with prices not listed. Cattle receipts were 6 000 with cattle and calves trading from 8 to 16 dollars and cows and heifers from 5 50 to 14 dollars. Sheep receipts about 060 were higher with lambs at 13 to 19 40 dollars and yearlings around 5 008 to 17 50 dollars.
Berlin reports Capt Mor thi commander of the submarine that sank the French battleship Danton died in a Hamburg hospital after taking poison. The Danton was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on March 19, 1917 and sank within a half hour with 296 men lost. 806 survived aboard ships Massue and patrol.
"Re Iowa Holstein Breeder" arrives just off press as a new Iowa Holstein Breeders' association publication edited by C. F. Jenness of Waterloo. It aims to engage breeders and promote the association among leading U S Holstein interests.
The notice names residents F. A. Carson Graham and Rev. Mr. Peterson along with KF M. Wallace and F. A. Ferguson as leaders in a community matter centered around the two addresses 919 Mullan Avenue West and Prospect Boulevard.
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