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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
5
A collage of rental notices and properties for sale fills the page from 1015 Wati to 2603 Jack and 707 Hack Hawk Bldg. Listings include furnished and unfurnished rooms in modern homes, board offered, and housekeeping rooms. Real estate ads feature farms in Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin with prices, terms, and contact briefings.
Prairie markets report mixed wheat trading as Oklahoma conditions spark speculation of higher yields. Liverpool quotes weigh on early sentiment, but improved crop expectations in Oklahoma and Indiana lift new wheat offerings. Cattle and hogs show steady to firm demand at Kansas City and Omaha, while Chicago produce and New York stocks reflect modest shifts in butter eggs and poultry.
Market listings show grain prices for No 2 red No 3 red and No 4 mixed across multiple exchanges including Duluth St Louis and Winnipeg. Wheat corn and oats quotes appear with Sept July futures and spot prices plus livestock, dairy, and hay values from Waterloo Iowa and regional markets.
The Chicago sheep market opened steady with careful bids and firm tones. Traders reported prices broadly unchanged across the board with limited movement in key grades and offerings lingering at similar levels to prior sessions.
County Agriculturalist A A Burger explains seasonal garden pest damage and control. He notes thousands in losses yearly and outlines cabbage pests such as the common cabbage worm with spray options using Bordeaux mixture or paris green oil lead arsenate, and later pyrethrum powder. advice covers timing and mixing with lime and flour.
Mrs. Mary Helen Boehcher moved to Sartori hospital for special care after illness. Numerous Cedar Falls residents and visitors are noted in social and travel items, including arrivals from Ames, Chicago, and Wisconsin, with several weddings, an anniversary trip, and property sales shaping local activity.
The article outlines pest and blight control for potatoes and other crops using Bordeaux mixture and Paris green or lead arsenate. It describes making a 5-56-50 spray and a 4-4-50 formula, applying early to prevent blight, and suggests screen boxes for cucumber beetles and use of lime to protect plants.
The squash bug proves hard to manage. Nicotine sulfate and Bordeaux mixture are cited as effective treatments. A light plant protector from mosquito netting is sometimes used. Growers plant roughly twice the seed to allow for thinning.
In Philadelphia on June 4 a 106 year old woman, Annie Dubinsky, frightened away a burglar, Benjamin Sherman, 22, after he climbed to a trapdoor and ransacked her bedroom. Sherman was held for trial on the testimony of the elderly homeowner.
Mrs John D Sheripan of Chicago urged the National Federation of Women's Clubs to back a movement banning all bird feathers from women s headgear except ostrich feathers at the group s June 4 meeting in Portland Oregon.
A grandmother uses a Sage and Sulphur mix to darken hair and restore color. The ad claims the formula by Wyeth darkens naturally, hides grays after a few applications, and improves scalp condition. Sold for about 50 cents by TW. W. Taggart.
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