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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
5
Waterlo o Evening Courier lists repair and storage services at a motor inn and a long string of help wanted ads. Offers include mechanics, salesmen, drain tile workers, bookkeeper, tractor salesmen, and gas stokers with pay and benefits details. Various names and addresses appear with contact instructions.
Help wanted notices run for H. A. Maine Co. seeking carpenters and cab obrees for the new high school project at West 10th Street and Locust Street.
Classified section lists help wanted and rental notices with disparate details. Entries include a man to run a threshing machine, a lady companion, and numerous for rent notices for furnished rooms, modern apartments, and houses. Several estate and real estate listings appear alongside items for sale and auctions.
A legal notice records renewal of incorporation for Waterloo Huxinesis College filed in Iowa. It outlines principal business in Waterloo and powers to operate a business school, borrow money, and buy or lease property, with a 45000 capital stock and a 20 year term. Names of initial officers and directors are listed, along with dates and official seals.
A 360 pound Dr G D Wickerham was rescued from a nearly full boat on Tubbs lake after Blossom and Ming repeatedly pulled him aboard. Lassoed by Blossom, he floated to shore a quarter mile away. He saved his smoking cigar and was in good condition after the ordeal.
An ad offers a 280 acre farm one and a half miles from Barnum Minnesota on the Northern Pacific line. It lists a 8 room house , barn , grainary , dairy stock including Guernsey cattle and pigs, poultry, two black horses and several implements with possession at once and a price of 60 dollars per acre plus settlement terms.
Chicago July 1 trading interest and change centered on resumption of future delivery in wheat. Sellers led with weak first prices around 2 72 2.75, while hedging sales later moved values. Corn and oats followed the grain trend with mixed rallies and declines as buyers weighed weather and rust concerns.
Shelbyville man recalls wartime tactics to scare away rodents after rats swarm his barn by the river. He used his old rifle to blast through the doors and windows and counted 42 dead rats in the improvised gas trap.
Cattle receipts around 10,000 at Chicago with fat cattle steady to firm and prices near 12.76 to 16.06 for beef steers. hog receipts about 34,000 with most sales $13.40 to $15.60, lower than yesterday. Sioux City reports 1,000 cattle and 5,000 hogs with beef steers $12.25 to $15.00, hogs $12.00 to $14.25, lambs easing slightly and sheep steady.
Kansas City stockyards report July receipts: cattle 5,000 with steady to higher realisations and top $16.00. hogs 4,000 lighter with top $15.05. sheep 4,000 steady to 25 cents lower with best natives at $15.35. Omaha bids show hogs lower top $15.00, cattle and calves lower, sheep and lambs 25 cents lower with best range lambs around $1.50.
Hogs sold slow with top at 15.75 and 2,000 head steady. calves brought around 6.00 to 12.00. Sheep receipts 2,500 steady with lambs trading at 16.50 to 16.30. Cows and heifers included in overall receipts.
Dope chickens and theft report from New York markets with metal and cotton notes. Minneapolis rap on chicken thieves using chloroform to steal from Frange at 2234 Cedar street with birds gone and odor remaining.
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