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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1919
Page
5
The Waterloo Courier and Daily Reporter highlights its Want Advertising Department as a central market where all citizens converge to buy sell or exchange items large or small. The notice explains rates for words lines and display ads and stresses the paper as a community institution.
A lengthy pasted notice lists thanks for kindness after bereavements for Emil Webberking and Donald Webberking, signed by Carl Webberking, Louis, Walter, Minnie, Lizzie Webberking, and William Gaskell. The page also includes a dense classified section with announcements, lost items, wanted help, rental and sale notices, and real estate listings from Waterloo IA, with numerous names, addresses, and phone numbers.
Dr F W Court pastor of First M E church received word that his father Thomas Court died last night in Waupaca Wis at age 79 He was a Civil War veteran and spent winters with his son gaining strong ties in patriotic groups Dr Court left for Waupaca to attend the funeral
Sunnyside subdivision near La Porte City attracts investors and cottage owners, with over a dozen dwellings built or under way. Local business leaders report progress, new boat landings, a rustic bridge, and mature plantings shaping a favored lakeside retreat. The July gathering and nearby land sales hint at steady growth as residents enjoy autos and interurban access.
Omaha livestock market data shows mixed receipts and price ranges for hogs cattle and lambs across Omaha St Louis Sioux City and St Joseph with varying highs and lows. Hogs led gains in some cities with top bids around 22.50 while cattle and sheep posted broader spreads across weights and grades. Local reports note steady to higher demand and several price bands for beef steers cows veal calves and feeder stock.
A large greet awaited President Wilson as Mayor Hylan and Gov. Smith led a party aboard municipal steamers Patrol and Correction. About 1,100 police from Jersey City and Hoboken and thousands of schoolchildren lined River Street to wish him farewell as he departed on a special ferry. Carnegie Hall then hosted a welcoming event before a special train to Washington.
In Chicago July 3 tensions rise as principals defend haircuts amid attacks on a school. 15 000 parents gathered, police kept order while officials cited health reasons. Market notes follow with corn and hog impacts and mixed commodity movements.
Kansas City stockyards report receipts for live cattle cattle heavy steers 14.10 to 15.35, medium and good 12.60 to 14.00, common 11.59 to 13.25, veal calves 14.25 to 16.23, feeder steers noted. Sheep receipts 7,000 with lambs 13.50 to 14.7, yearling wethers and ewes 4.50 to 7.25, goats listed at 5.0.
Chicago market reports hogs opening higher with top price of 22.65 and mixed weights trading. Receipts reach 49 000 hogs and 13 000 sheep and cattle entries, with several weight classes showing gains and declines. Pigs and butchering stock move within narrow ranges as buyers adjust to demand.
Fragmentary stockyard report lists fair butcher cows Helfers Cayners and cutters Bologna bulls Premium hogs and pigs with quoted prices and bale hay notes. Readable items include packer quotes and scattered prices for hay baled prairie oat hay and wild hay with dealer markings.
The directors announced the forty-third series stock matured as of July 17. Investors will receive $10,1000 and several thousands of dollars in mortgage releases. Last quarter earnings were 3.10 percent. A new sixty-fifth stock series opens August 1.
Prague July 7 James Ceary secretary of the American Y M C A was killed and an Italian aviator injured when a plane carrying them over the Wysehrad bridge fell during circus tricks. Ceary operated a moving picture apparatus at the time of the crash. Des Moines July 8 J M Pierce testified as retrenchment and reform committee examined charges of misaccounting funds by the Iowa commission to the Panama Pacific Exposition. Little new evidence. focus on 145 dollars paid for a typewriter and its legality.
Sioux City Iowa July Woodbury county yesterday voted for hard surface roads by a big majority.
Birth notices list new daughters and sons for several families. Lillian Frances born July 1 to William Henry Ellitt and wife at Oneida. Earl Arthur born June 16 to Oscar Hamilton Smith at St Francis Hospital. Warren Magee born June 27 to Clarenza August Miner in Lester township. Frank Otto born July 4 to Boyd 0 Biehl at 522 Ricker Street.
Friends report Joe Hosmer has landed safely in New York and is at Camp Merritt awaiting discharge. He served several months in the motor transport corps and was sent to France before returning stateside seeking an early release at Camp Merritt or Camp Dodge.
Reading from an archival document, figures 63 to 85 and 58 appear alongside July 8 1919 notes. The fragmentary OCR hints at statistical data or scores tied to an optometry or option segment, naming Bygisaan and URES as journal markers. Specific context remains unclear from the fragment.
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