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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1919
Page
4
The Waterloo Evening Courier announces changes to want ad rates with a minimum 25 cent per day charge and a per word rate for insertions. It notes a nationwide trend toward higher minimums and better written ads to improve reader satisfaction.
Classified notices seeking buyers and services include requests for a typewriter desk piano tuning carpentry and light housekeeping rooms two to four bedroom options and real estate inquiries priced offers for Liberty Bonds and real estate prospects with several names and addresses in Waterloo and surrounding area enduring a broad range of odd jobs and wants detailing contact avenues and conditions.
A collage of rental ads, notices, and business pleas from Waterloo. Listings include furnished rooms and small 4 to 7 room houses near parks and streets like Chautauqua park and Fifth St. Also includes public notices about January payments, donations, and shop openings. Names appear but events remain local and time-specific.
Classified notices seek male and female help across crafts and service roles. Positions include cupola tender, printing apprentice, foundry workers, road superintendent, engineer, housekeepers, farm keeper, salespeople, stenographers, and clerks. Locations include Eldora Iowa Chicago and eastern Iowa with wages offered and application directions.
Wanted Machinist with thirteen years experience seeks work if needed. Real estate ads tout Michigan farmland at low prices with terms. farms near Cedar Walls Hudson Grundy area feature 212 and 60 acre parcels, occupied properties, equipment sets, and easy terms.
An array of rural properties and farm equipment offers across Wisconsin and nearby areas. Listings include a 12 acre tract with near nil improvements and 80 acres nearly developed, 20 acres of potatoes, and 135 acres of pasture. Several farms highlight timber, stone buildings, barns, creeks, and fruit. Equipment includes hay tedders, planters, plows, and harvesters with contact references.
A jumble of short notices includes sale items for produce and coal, storage and moving services, a marriage license issued to William Trickey and Anne Hard, and various for sale listings. Local businesses advertise potatoes, coal, furniture, and storage routes to the Pacific coast, with phone contacts and company names.
For sale or trade listings describe 16 acres 1 mile north of city limits with a modern house and new barn. Ads mention real estate in Cedar Falls Iowa and adjacent areas, with requests to exchange farm lands and contact details. Several miscellaneous items include an Edison phonograph trade inquiry and buyers seeking used cars and furniture. Community notices cover local meetings, births, deaths, and civic announcements.
Fragmentary Janesville note mentions Andy Decker in Chicago with stock cars, Belford in steel helmet at a bank, Camp Pike arrivals Charney and Waller Hodges, illness of Jonn Beach, and the death and mourning of Mr. Smalling with his widow and four daughters. Other lines unreadable.
Des Moines Jan 30 The Iowa senate election committee reports a Kimball bill with minor changes returning to party convention nominations for state officers while keeping US senator, governor, lieutenant governor, congressmen, legislators and county offices chosen in the primary A second Kimball measure would place presidential and vice presidential candidates on ballots instead of party electors.
Chicago prices showed initial bullishness on Argentine headlines but fell back as British embargo news dampened sentiment. The market recovered later with May corn around 1.16 to 1.17 and oats fluctuating, influenced by shifting demand and domestic factors.
Mortuary notices report the deaths of Harry Cottrell Woods at Pelham Bay Naval Officers Training School from pneumonia and influenza. Survived by parents James H. Woods and Mrs. Woods, sister Evelyn, and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Lovejoy. Also obituary for Harry W. Eldridge at 118 Fourteenth Street West after two weeks of illness. Survived by parents Silas Eldridge and four sisters. Funeral arrangements pending at Petersen Bros. mortuary.
Miss Archer visiting Auburn en route to Waterloo from Canada and relatives in Nova Scotia and Wisconsin. Mrs. Stevenson recovering at home after hospital confinement. Mt Auburn high school held a program and box social raising $60 for the High School Athletic Association. Mrs. Healy escorted her daughter home. A scarlet fever case improving after a long illness. James Abbott sold his farm to George Petersen. Glick and Thomsen discharged from army and returned home. Drifting text mentions a patient at Mason City hospitals and an operation in progress.
La Porte area social notes include visits and visits to family in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo. The report mentions births, hospital stays, church events, and a Presbyterian hospital patient update alongside Chicago and Kansas City grain quotes and cash wheat prices from Jan 30.
Chicago reports hog prices steady with better grades and wire weight favored. receipts 60,000. Cattle receipts 9,000 quiet, beef cattle ranged from 9.50 to 20.00 with prime higher. stockers and feeders varied. Sweep shows steady to 26 cents lower. lambs weaker, ewes and rams mixed. Regional notes include Omaha Kansas City St Louis Sioux City St Joseph livestock movements and price ranges.
Raw York reports mixed butter prices with receipts of 7,427 tubs and various grades. Omaha lists corn, cheese, oats, and yellow corn price ranges. Peoria notes corn and white/yellow prices. St. Louis and Chicago markets show butter and poultry movements with mixed firsts and packers.
Jan 30 1929 market notes show traders cautious at a 12.00 opening with Marine preferred and Texas & Pacific among features. Liberty bonds closed firm. Mayo urged a new ship type blending dreadnought and battle cruiser traits with 12 inch armor and enhanced deck protection.
London January 30 The strike wave in Britain expands with widespread industrial paralysis on the Clyde and in Belfast. Belfast firms shutting down electric plants as workers join the strikes. Clyde area electricians strike forcing corporations to halt public works while preserving limited power for hospitals and street lights.
An order removing all restrictions including price and zone rules on anthracite coal has been prepared and awaits Administrator Garfield's signature to become effective an official announcement is expected soon from Washington January 30 by the Associated Press
Bank clearings for Waterloo reported by the Pipeliga Clearing House association show daily totals from Saturday to Thursday and compare with the corresponding week of 1918. Figures include chattel mortgages and year to date totals, with notes on increases versus last year.
Washington January 30 Secretary Baker and Assistant Secretary Crowell proposed abandoning 44 of the 16 national guard camps and buying the sites of total national army contingents. Camp Kearny California and Camp Sevier Colorado would be the two camps acquired by the government, with others returned to landowners after lease expirations.
Maj. Gen. C. C. Ballou, who led the 92nd division in the Argonne, to become commandant at Camp Dodge upon arrival, likely tomorrow or Saturday, as ranking officer. Ballou previously headed the officers' training camp for African Americans at Fort Des Moines in 1917.
Federal railroad officials said Chicago suburban rate increases stay in effect while the Feb. 1 order is postponed to Feb. 10. Reports from Aurora claim the increase order was revoked and local offices will sell tickets at old rates indefinitely. The same telegraph note from Secretary Lansing to Ignace Paderewski announced U S recognition of Poland and a readiness to establish relations with the new Polish state.
The Associated Press reports new efforts to cultivate demand for major food products. Butter wholesale prices were cut to 11 cents per pound or less by grade, while egg wholesale values dropped 2 to 2 1 2 cents a dozen, reflecting lower market activity in Chicago.
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