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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1919
Page
5
The Waterloo Courier explains want ads pricing for small items and services, listing per word charges with a minimum, line rates, and capitalization conventions. It notes the paper’s aim as a daily marketplace for all citizens to arrange sales exchanges and services.
A cluttered page lists cards of thanks lodge notices, lost items, and employment ads. Readers are invited to contact Waterloo businesses for clothing repairs shoe services household help and job openings across hotels construction sales and offices with several listings specifying locations on West Fourth Lafayette Independence Marsh Place and Cedar Falls routes.
A flood of real estate notices fills ad columns from Iowa and Minnesota towns. Listings include farms, bungalows, and city lots with prices, exchanges, and terms. Several ads seek buyers, renters, or trade for autos, with details on location, acreage, soil, and improvements.
A mixed readable listings page shows auction style notices and real estate loan offers from Waterloo Iowa City authorities. The fragment mentions a 1919 notice of executrix Averies Gilley and mortgage/estate actions, plus a garbage disposal ordinance requiring covered containers and weekly removal, with penalties for violations. It also lists sales of stove and piano items, rabbits, and secondhand goods from local auctions.
The Waterloo Iowa City Council will consider a resolution of necessity on August 11 1959 at 7 30 am in the council chamber. The proposal lists numerous streets for cement sidewalk construction on specified blocks and sides, with widths of five feet or four feet four inches as noted. Abutting property owners will be assessed and bonds required. the plan proceeds without a petition from property owners.
In Chicago on July 17 the markets showed a bearish tone as sterling fell about two points in a week, depressing exports and corn futures. Hog price weakness and poor weather forecasts pressured grains. the session closed near the day’s lows with September corn around 1.95 and December near 1.62. Regional quotes across Kansas City, Peoria, Omaha, Minneapolis, and St. Louis reflected scattered losses in wheat and oats, while sugar and mercantile paper remained steady to soft in New York trading.
Chicago market notes yesterday's hogs selling 40 to 50 cents under prior day with mixed weights and steady to lower bids. Cattle receipts around 1000 with beef steers and veal calves showing broad price ranges, while sheep receipts reached 26000 with lambs and yearlings trading at varied levels.
Livestock receipts in Kansas City and St Louis show hogs and cattle trading lower to higher with mixed demand. Beef steers and heifers range from mid teens for prime to low teens for common, while hogs sell around 21 to 22 dollars, with sows and pigs varying by weight. Produce prices in New York and Chicago exhibit modest changes across butter eggs and potatoes, with Liberty bonds quoted for nearby maturities and metals markets including oil and steel movers.
Sioux City market notes hogs mix and heavy bids from 18. etc cattle receipts about 1,600 with steers cows and feeders priced from 6.60 to 9.50 with veals 10.00 to 17.60. sheep receipts 1,000 with light offerings and prices not fully listed.
Livestock prices in St Joseph Missouri on July 17 show hogs at 21.50 to 21.90 per hundredweight, cattle receipts around 2000 with low steers 10.50 to 16.00 and cows 9.50 to 15.25, calves to 1.50, lambs 10.00 to 17.00, ewes 7.00 to 9.00.
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