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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1913
Page
5
A. E. Gideon, a Waterloo realty dealer, praises farmers in Black Hawk county as financially independent and largely cash buyers. He notes farmers are their own bosses, prospering amid thriving corn and spring crops, and rarely seek bank loans for property deals.
East and West bound schedules for Illinois Central and related lines show departures from Dubuque Chicago routes, Omaha express, Sioux City fast mail, local Freights, and connections to Minneapolis Albert Lea Des Moines and Cedar Falls. Interurban Waterloo Cedar Falls and La Porte changes include daily and weekend variations with listed arrival times and transfer points.
The article promotes outside cement plastered, square-built homes revived from past methods, praising metal lath use, crack resistance, and reduced painting. A seven-room design with one chimney serving kitchen, furnace, and living room costs about $3,000 and includes practical details like pantries and closets.
Plan to erect a new detention hospital near Black Hawk county city limits to be decided July 9. Architect J G Ralston is revising specifications, wood as primary material, eighteen rooms plus kitchen living room bath, space for thirty patients. bids to be resubmitted as a county urgent for contagious disease care.
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