Wanted For Sale Ads From Waterloo Courier Text
Local want ad section outlines pricing and guidelines for want to hire and for sale notices. It lists one cent per word with a 28 cent minimum and instruction on formatting and capitalization.
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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
5
Local want ad section outlines pricing and guidelines for want to hire and for sale notices. It lists one cent per word with a 28 cent minimum and instruction on formatting and capitalization.
A dense, scanned page lists Wanted ads for workers in woodworking, carpentry, and general labor along with diverse real estate and rental notices. It includes positions like pattern maker and woodworkers, with locations in Waterloo and surrounding areas, plus several rental and sale listings for apartments houses and farms.
A long string of clipped classified ads lists various goods and services for sale or trade. Entries mention vehicles motorcycles and vacuum cleaners, furniture like dining-room tables and china closets, household appliances including ovens and ranges, farm animals and produce, and miscellaneous items with contact details and locations in sparse garbled form.
Auction notice for July 22 at 62 Jefferson St Milos Miller Garage listing 2 Holmes Touring car 1 Holmes Roadster 1 American Sedan with cash sales at 612 Jefferson St. Also storage and moving services by Boyd Transfer Storage Co and others advertising fireproof warehouse and reductions for California moves. Legal notices include dissolution of The Avant Waterloo Co and wills notices. Brokerage ads include used cars, real estate transfers and sales in Waterloo Iowa area.
Iowa enacts a 22 million dollar soldiers bonus via state bonds to pay eligible veterans from 1917 to 1918. The act creates a Bonus Board, sets eligibility, and levies a 20 year direct tax to cover principal and interest, with payments exempt from taxes and a November 1922 public vote for adoption.
A roundup of community notes from Janesville includes Susan Ulrich visiting daughter Mrs. Tibbetts in Waverly, Campfire Girls camping with Mrs. Carl Wad, and local workers like Dan Rice and Briner taking jobs. Reports mention coal shortages, hail losses in southern Nebraska, and Roy Becker operating a boat livery on the Minnesota lakes. Several residents are listed with illnesses, hospitalizations, travel, or social visits, and a forthcoming dance at Commercial Hall is announced for July 22. The piece ends with a state certification by Secretary W G Ramsay on debts and elections.
Nashua and Hudson columns detail travels of local families including Johnson and Dexter heading to Minneapolis, Bellamy visiting Minneapolis, and Seaman relatives. Reports recount a runaway near Carmi, Me. Carl Simerson's death from tuberculosis. injuries to Ray Shoop and Bert Allison. various visits, conventions, and educational activities at Coe College and U. R. Christian Endeavor.
Local residents from Brandon and nearby towns are noted visiting relatives in Chicago Cedar Falls and Waterloo. Several families plan trips and returns while a waterworks system vote is scheduled for August 11 after a preliminary survey by a Webster City engineering firm.
Ill resident Barclay. Dunkerton man very ill and not expected to live long. Amelia Hall of Louisa Washington dies after operation in Tacoma. Lina taught at local school before moving to North Dakota then Washington. A $60 000 schoolhouse project underway in Gernaville. Hail insurance at 3 dollars per thousand. Severe storm July 18 at 3 36 p.m. devastates Barclay township crops and lists multiple crop losses.
A gas truck carrying 300 gallons overturned Monday night near Shell Rock injuring two drivers. Whitaker, hospitalized in Mercy, suffers internal injuries. Melendy survived with unspecified injuries. Other notes mention local depot repairs, visits, and family travel in nearby towns.
Cedar Falls hosts state Congregational young people conference with about 200 enrolled. Delegates visited the Little Brown Church in the Vale near Nashua and return to Cedar Falls as sessions close Friday noon. Also notes on city milk ordinance amendments and Baptist state conference plans.
Funeral services for Mrs. Luther Salmon who died Sunday at Presbyterian hospital Waterloo were held Tuesday at 2:30 PM from the MRS church with Rev Clem ents in charge. Burial followed in West View cemetery. She survived by husband and infant son, her mother Nellie Mingus, and several siblings. A number of out-of-town relatives attended the rites.
A social note recalls a birthday celebration with a picnic supper. Reverend and Mrs. C E Bryden and Helen spent Sunday at Shellsbore where the Reverend Bryden delivered a sermon.
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