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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1919
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier readers see want ads as a daily market place for all classes to buy sell and exchange anything large or small. Ads priced by word line and section with clear rates and terms, promoting community commerce and local notices.
The page compiles a jumble of notices and classifieds including cards of thanks, lost and found, employment ads, real estate listings, and used vehicles. It references the Royal Neighbors meeting, thanks for funeral sympathy, job wants, real estate for sale and lease, and various buy and sell items with scattered contact details. Names and addresses are interspersed with inconsistent formatting.
Classifieds list numerous sale items including a 194 Ford chassis parts, lead and speedster components, a Belgian mares horse, room furniture, a milk cow, popcorn and peanuts, large office desks and furniture, used tires, and various trade offers. Mentions a local contact 2965 and address clues such as Waterloo and Cedar Falls areas with multiple ads for sale or trade and rental notices.
A long OCR fragment covers market quotes from July 1919 with hogs and grain movements. It mentions rising and easing prices, profits, and weather impacts across the Midwest. Names like Miss Elsie Anderson and DeWitt Mars appear amid farm and local notice details. The piece mixes market data with social notes on residents and visitors in Hudson and nearby towns.
In Rockford on July 21 W C Mid Gelkaut sold his dray line to Tack Legg and L Core. The Congregational parsonage was reshingled. A G L Milloy bought the Hubben s farm. Prof and Mrs Will Bishop left for Boston by auto. Mrs Gyntha Bowers and daughter Maud move from rooming house to residence. Prof C Bishop Ames visited his mother last week. The class of 1904 at Rockford high school held a reunion at Elmer Mel Roberts home.
Bank clearings for Waterloo ending July 18 show weekly totals and day by day figures from the Jerloo Clearing House association. The report includes Chicago cash quotes for corn, wheat, oats, and flour, with prices for various grades and commodities across Wichita, Minneapolis, and Peoria markets.
Market notes from Chicago July 21 show hog receipts steady to higher with bulk hog prices around 20.70 to 22.60 after a day of mixed grades. Cattle and calf quotes mixed by weight and grade, with beef steers mostly 13.00 to 18.50 and cows 6.00 to 13.50, while veal calves and feeders shift as supply remains abundant. Local market listings alongside Sioux City and Omaha cattle figures provide a snapshot of midweek livestock trading across multiple exchanges.
Osage reports final Liberty bond prices with 4s and 5s notes noted. Obituaries include John Casey born 1841 Ireland died July 13. Gabriel Odelen born 1860 Rock Creek settlement died July 9. Also mentions local farm advisement and aging stock market remarks with brief notes on trade activity.
New York markets show futures steady with October at 36.85, December at 85.65, March 25.65, and other months near 34.9 to 35.0. Raw sugar steady with refined prices around 10.60 to 9.00 for various forms. Horses and mules offered in St Louis and Chicago markets with posted prices. potatoes in Chicago steady at 7.28 to 7.59 per barrel. Mercantile paper mixed with 5 percent, sterling, and government bonds noted. Coffee futures steady near 21.86 with July and August quotations. silver at 1.034 1/4 per dollar. London silver quoted, with money at 2 1/2 percent.
Former Senator James Hamilton Lewis returned from Washington after conferring with President Wilson and said the president is expected to speak in Chicago on his return from the Pacific coast.
New York July 21 Mrs Aimee Zemple McPherson known as the Female Billy Sunday arrives to launch a revival imitating the evangelist. She accuses women of cosmetic powder and paints and laments men chasing money, deeming old fashioned religion obsolete.
Miss Doreen Steer a 17 year old English girl will arrive this week in the United States on her trip from London to Topeka by express. She is to be adopted by Mr and Mrs Dare of Topeka. With no chaperon available Mr Dare conceived the idea of having her shipped by express.
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