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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1913
Page
14
A Waterloo report details fifteen days of parcel post activity with 3,738 incoming and 5,887 outgoing parcels, plus 50 local deliveries. The average weights were 12.56 ounces inbound and 15.19 ounces outbound, with daily counts including a 619 outgoing tally on the 8th due to remailed stamps.
In a letter to the editor Geo V Fowler compares 1908 and 1912 dairy reports showing butter production dropped from 101,552,063 to 91,738,573 pounds, a four year loss of 9,813,490 pounds. Barneys cites ice cream as a factor and notes 519,890 gallons produced, but butter fat would still fall about 9,000,000 pounds. Fowler laments the decline amid Wisconsin gains in dairy output and mentions two counties losing creameries. An advertisement for Chamberlain’s Liniment accompanies the piece.
Chicago traders opened bearish with price easing then steady as May wheat May corn and May oats moved within narrow ranges. Cattle hog and sheep receipts at Kansas City and Chicago show brisk demand and varied prices amid a broad market snapshot including cash wheat and pork bond notes.
Fred Reed, a Washington D C boy scout, won a prize from Ernest Thompson Seton the Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America for lighting a fire without matches demonstrating resourceful outdoor skills.
The cruiser Denver will depart Los Angeles for Acapulco to protect Americans from rebel Padilla. Consul Edwarda reports no change in Acapulco conditions and that the British ship Shearwater will stay docked until normalcy or Denver's arrival. Federal troops are sent after a Tlaxcala outbreak attempt.
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