Market headlines and livestock rundown in midweek trade
Iowa and South Dakota forecast unsettled with showers and warmer temps while Chicago wheat gains supported by foreign buying and damp Morocco outlook. Livestock markets in St Louis Kansas City and Omaha mixed with cattle steady, hogs firm to strong and sheep steady as listed prices and receipts are reported.
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Iowa
South Dakota
Warket
Chicago
Morocco
Buenos Ayres
North Dakota
ST. Louis
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Omaha Livestock
Omaha
Neb
Hoga
Waterloo Markets Prices for Flour Dairy and Livestock
The Waterloo market list shows prices for flour and grain including Clear Quill patent at 3.10 per cwt and 3.00 for Wellington of Waterloo. oats, barley, straw, eggs, creamery butter, New potatoes, and a full range of cattle and hog categories with prices from 2.75 to 5.50 per cwt for steers and premium hogs at 1.36 per lb. Also listed are horses, hay, draught animals, mules, and farm chunks with varied quantities.
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Waterloo
Wellington
Kansas
Turkey
City in Brief: Waterloo Visitors and Local News
Waterloo city short items note visitors including Marshal Ben Stickley and L S Cass. business and professional trips by J A Jerger, C A Shoemaker. D E Iowa chapter activity. Frances Fix and Wise family travels. auto numbers update. Sheriffs Association convention dates. Mrs Dahl and Agnes Peterson to Minnesota. Home Building & Loan amends articles to raise capital to 1 060 000 dollars.
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C. A. Shoemaker
Great Western
Bes Moines
J. L. Rose
D. E
Iowa
Des Moines
Frances Fix
Charles City
W. G. Wise
Cascade
Mr. Wise
Fourth Street West
Anl
Home Building & Loan Association
The
County Recorder
Louis Frank
J. H. Hildebrand
Experimenters test road materials from tar to leather
A municipal journal notes Handsworth England used a year with tar and leather as road material. Leather scraps from manufacturers are mixed with bitumen or tar, spread on ground, and covered with gravel. The blend is said to be durable, dust free, resilient, and offers good foothold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handsworth
England
Lost Gold Brooch Displaced Between Stores
A plain center brooch engraved with the letter L and surrounded by fleurs de lis was lost between Paul Davis and S H W Pinkerton stores. Item left at Courier office. Also notes Real Estate Two Choice Lots in Kenwood Park Nos. 190 191 at cost. Signed CG. J. Murphy, La Porte City.
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Paul Davis
S H W. Pinkerton
Courier
Kenwood Park
CG. J. Murphy
la Porte City
Mystery of the Confederate Seal and the Secret Keeper
A Georgia servant recalls being entrusted with the Great Seal of the Southern Confederacy and refusing a $15,000 offer to reveal its hiding place. Competing stories place the seal in the South Carolina Secretary of State’s office, with another account linking Miss Belle Blackehear of Waycross to a replica, and Mrs. J. Beban of New Orleans to possession of the seal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeerson Davis
South Carolina
Dervis
Visiting Nurses Busy as They Assist 136 Visits
Miss Margaret McMahon and Miss Frances Day report for the month ending show 136 visits to 57 patients with 17 new cases. Two deaths, 10 recoveries, five improved. nine cases unresolved. Six families received immediate relief and six new cases were sent to agencies. Six dollars collected from patients. Donations of sick room necessities welcomed.
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Margaret McMahon
Frances Day
Associated Charities
Department of Health
The
Humane Society
Waterloo Laundry Buys Towel Firm
A transfer filed in the County Recorder’s Office shows Elmer Mowry and F W Ecklund selling their towel supply business to Waterloo Steam Laundry for 462 dollars. The deal includes Clean Towel Supply assets, 69 cabinets, 700 towels, and 210 pounds of soap with a noncompete. A separate agreement notes the business reverting to Mowry and Ecklund due to two missed payments on a 1120 note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Recorder Plummer
Elmer Mowry
F. W. Ecklund
Waterloo
Messrs. Mowry
Ecklund
Jewel Theatre Changes Hands in City Deal
J W Mercelles buys the Jewel theatre on Fourth Street west of C J Rugg. He plans about 1000 dollars in remodeling and a new front before reopening to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jewel Theatre
J. W. Mercelles
Fourth S&treet
C. J. Rugg
Daisy She Rewards a Patient in a Farmyard Bargain
Jacob Keene pleads to buy his neighbor Lorenzo Nettle’s mare Daisy. After a failed sale, a minister buys Daisy for fifty, hoping to ride her, but Daisy is cleaned and shown off then dies, only to be found alive sleeping as Jacob secretly reclaims the horse.
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Jacob Keene
Lorenzo Nettle
Jacob
Mr. Keene
Liste
Loren- 20
Daisy
Mrs. Keene
Lizsie Keene
Lorenzo
Lisale
Willie
Wille
Nettle
Fray
Little River
Uncle Wiie
Courire
Lorenso Nettle
Brie
Danny
Lizzie
Mr. Nettle
ElmvDle
Dan
Uncle Willie
Jaco Keene
Alway
Rento Nettle
Cas
Dan Harmon
Lorenso
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Lamson Bros. & CO
Chicago Board OF Trade
Bonnnett
Marsh-Place
Innes
Cate Mar
RG Dair
New York
Stock Exchange
Canadian Pacific
Pennsylvania
Rock Island
Atchison
American Smelter
Union Pacific
Baltimore and Ohio
Southern Pacific
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
United States Steel
United States Steel, Pfd
Amalgamated Copper
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Erie
St. Paul
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Caicane
Waterloo Markets
Mons. Gibert
Holland
Mons. Garros
Faria
London
Buchanan
Ben Stickley
New Hadford
L. S. Cass
J. A. Jerger
Rochester, Minn
Sheriffs’ Assomciation of
F. M. Shores
Fort Dodge
F. W. Dahl
Agnes Peterson
Minneapolis
Minnesota
J. P. Wilkinson
Lynchburg
Harry Wilkinson
Wilkinson Publicity Bureau
W. G. Carter
Tremonton
Utah
G. H. Furneaux
Famny
B. H. Shimer
Ima ‘and
Theons
Morrison, Ia
City
Wiliam” Knipp
Armstrong Manufacturing Company
Knipp
Sam Hell
Spirit Lake
Okoboji
Loren Risk
Lafayette Building
First National Bank
Stella
Helen Herd
St.Louis
D. Gronen
Chautauqua Park
Seal OF the
Confederate States
Waterloo Laundry
American Press Association
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