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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1920
Page
11
Liquidating and holiday cover concerns push corn, oats, and wheat lower in early trading. Bears note favorable weather and ample receipts while pork lags. Chicago cash quotes show various No. 1 mixed corn at 1.68 to 1.86 and wheat near 2.70 to 2.80, with provisions firming modestly.
Chicago July 1 cattle receipts 3,000 compared with week ago. Beef stock down about 5 to 10 cents per pound, slaughter cattle at similar lower quotes. Hogs receipts 3,000, prices mixed with lighter weights down around 25 to 50 cents. Sheep receipts 3,000 with few direct packer sales steady.
Kansas City livestock notes show cattle prices mixed with steers steady to $1 lower, hogs down about $0.50 to $1.00, receipts around 100 for the week and overall gains near $1 per head for some grades. East St Louis reports holiday effects with cattle down about 25 to 50 cents, sheep and hens weaker versus prior week.
York reports on July 3 with butter higher for creamery and extra items, egg receipts around 2,085 casings with fresh firsts noted. Milk flats and colored specials mentioned, while Chicago notes butter and eye prices unchanged and poultry alive at the market.
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending July 3 1930 totaled 389228 50. Figures reported by the Waterloo Clearing House Association detail daily totals for Sunday and Saturday with multiple amounts including 865936 65 and 271875 43. The report presents a compact view of weekly banking activity in Black Hawk County.
Summary of weekly grain and provision data including clearings, receipts, and price movements. Reports on oats and corn futures, warehouse stocks, and market factors such as weather and rust risk. Includes New York clearing house figures and Waterloo market notes on prices for butter, potatoes, and livestock.
A scattered list of Waterloo and Cedar Falls real estate transfers, cemetery lot changes, and nearby property deeds along with brief farm market items. Notable entries include transfers in Fairview cemetery, Cedar Falls properties on Whitney Road, and La Porte City additions, followed by potato, cloverseed, and dairy product market notes and a short export review of Danish butter.
A garbled assortment of personal thanks for floral offerings and kindness follows a community obituary note. The page includes numerous classified ads: for sale a Moon Roadster at 375, rent rooms on 126 and 125 South St, a full sized Fairview cemetery lot, a Colorado 160 acre estate near Waterton, and a variety of rooms and properties for rent or sale. Also wants ads for a housekeeper and a dairy or bakery job, plus real estate and auctioneer notices.
A garbled classifieds page lists items for sale including a 40 acre parcel, used auto parts, a 32x54 foot tire shed, a vintage rug, a washing machine, and a green rug. Also offers furnished rooms for rent, sleeping rooms near shops, a nearly new electric bicycle, and multiple houses for sale or rent with prices, down payments, and locations around Franklin street and Logan avenue.
Amelia Imschweiler describes 14 years of near nonstop affection by John Imschweiler, with daily two half hour kiss periods and constant kissing during meals. She sought separate maintenance but accepted a final decree after his attorneys moved for divorce, claiming marital love was a mutual benefit.
In San Francisco Caleb Crack triggers a revolver shot in General Bounded Warehutke No. 1 early morning. Police arrive to find a gunshot, a trapped rat, and witnesses Becker and Lyngreen recounting their vigil, while locals recall whisky thefts that prompted guards to scan the dark warehouse. The tale blends mystery with a grim, smoky atmosphere and a curious mix of names and events.
A single run farm home advertisement offers a private sale glimpse. The author notes brother Chas. B. Scott, a Central Illinois farmer, will be shown the property and invites consideration. Read description for details.
A long article notes books provide important aid to film producers with titles like Pollyanna and Ben Hur cited as sources for many pictures. It mentions new university and administration libraries, summer hours, and staff changes at Des Moines and Waterloo libraries, plus South America displays and patron services.
A readable fragment notes that many people are not very interested in astronomy yet the sky map arrives monthly at bulb libraries. It says the map represents the heavens showing stars, planets, the sun and eclipse timing for the coming month, with meteorological and other phase details also illustrated.
An odd blend of horticultural lore and lab chemistry describes a robust old fashioned flower hybrid and a rare honey crystal sugar from a sugar ex tremely rare in Porala regions. The text links large floricultural improvements with bees storing honey den crystals in dry summers.
Fragment mentions plants maturing and bloom plans with a potential harvest in late summer and a certainty of fine blooms by late September. Details are incomplete, with no clear entities, dates, places, or outcomes to anchor.
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