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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1925
Page
7
A bustling Waterloo Evening Courier page lists lost and found notices, rental ads, business services, beauty treatments, education, employment, and real estate. Readers encounter job postings, help wanted, cars for sale, and housing options amid a dense, streetwise classifieds section.
Listings advertise sweet peppers cabbage and straw flowers at 320 W Second St, canna and asters, ground cherries, and sprouted cannas with delivery. Garden vegetables including late cabbage at 2324 Lafayette St, celery plants fifty cents per hundred at Rosewood Gardens Rainbow Drive. Trade offered for a 1925 Maxwell Club sedan or late coupe, request details by mail or phone.
Classifieds offer second hand automobiles including Ford touring cars and a Maxwell 1921 Redaster in good condition with eye catching prices. Also listed are furniture sets including dining tables chairs dressers and an appliance line up with stoves washing machines and a Hoover vacuum. Local auctioneer Tromanhauser promotes an upcoming two day sale with heavy emphasis on furniture and home goods.
Multiple property owners seek trades or sales on equal value terms. Listings include a five room 114 story house and two lots near lower Lafayette and California Street at 2000 dollars with 750 incumbrance, an $1800 car trade with two down payments, a strictly modern Kingsley Avenue bungalow with 1300 down and 50 monthly, a modern seven room house on Kingsley Avenue with 8500 price, a Highland seven room with garage at 3750, and a Dawson Street seven room with full lot at 3750 needing repairs but potential profit.
The Macmillan Arctic expedition will use radio reports broadcast to the United States and reliance on 24 trained carrier pigeons for emergency updates. Pigeons will fly from Anacostia to Boston for expert guidance, with supplies including Argentine corn and other provisions, and trained by H Kubec N S at Anacostia.
Low temperatures prevailed across Iowa with Estherville recording the lowest official reading at 41 degrees. Forecasts show continued cold conditions overnight into today.
Fourteen leading postal administrations will meet at Cortina d Ampezzo Italy on July 6 to study methods to reduce the duration and burden of future universal postal congresses. Joseph Stewart will represent the United States. The Stockholm agreement sets new rates and procedures taking effect October 1 this year.
Various railroads announce that passengers traveling through Waterloo on single or round trips will be allowed a 10 day stopover starting June 1. Buckley, city ticket and passenger agent, says the concession will greatly benefit the city, which previously had no stopover point. A stray note mentions a South American tree and a giant stork, unrelated to rail news.
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