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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 22, 1918

Page

10

Market notes show corn prices drift after bearish pressure

Chicago markets opened with unchanged to lower corn values as traders weighed hot weather relief and trading restrictions. Oats and barley lagged, while provisions rallied late on short covering. Cash quotes in Chicago and Omaha reflected varied yellow corn and white oats, with multiple regional prices listed for No. 2 to No. 6 grades and related grains.

Italy Chicago Wimothy Peoria Elk Sung

Weekly Grain and Provision Review

Heat in the west pushed corn values higher despite delivery restrictions freezing futures. Oats rose modestly and provisions advanced with strong buying, while government heat warnings spurred anxiety over possible crop harm.

Hogs decline modestly in Chicago yards and midwest stock report

Chicago June 22 market rounds show hogs about 10 cents lower with receipts of 12 006. Cattle receipts 1 000 steady to mixed. Sheep down with shorn lambs and lowers, while Sioux City and Omaha reports list hogs higher or steady. Kansas City and St Louis also show varied hog and cattle results with overall steady patterns.

Chicago U. S. Bureau of Markets Sioux City Omaha Nek ST. Joseph

Prices and receipts across New York and other markets

New York June 22 butter steady with creamery extras around 46 to 46 1/4 cents. Eggs receipts 13,793 cases, extras 3 7/8 4 0 cents, regular and firsts around 35 to 39 cents. Cheese steady with state fresh specials about 23 to 24 cents. Poultry live steady roosters 21 cents fowls 30 cents chickens 40 cents turkeys 26 cents. Chicago June 22 butter unchanged eggs receipts 13,354 cases. Potatoes unsettled with 1.24 to 1.40 per bushel bulk and various regional prices. Kansas City butter and poultry unchanged. St Louis poultry higher turkeys 26 cents ducks 20 cents butter and eggs unchanged.

New York E. Ege Chicaza Chicago Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Louisiana Texas Virginia Barrel Cobblers Kansas City St. Louis St Louis Waterloo Great Northern Atlantic Coast Line Liberty United States Cogarbubolien Stenca Seco Se Steel Baldwin Heifer Gomers One Evers Apopeie As Bologna Bulls Ilog Wits American Can American Anaconda Atchison Baldwin Locomotiva Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Canadian Pacific Central Chesapeake & Ohio MH. & St Paul Crucible Steel Erie General Great Northern Ptd Marine Kennecott Copper - Maxwell Motor Co New York Central Northern Pacific Ohio Cities Gas Creamery Southern Pacific Saint Southern Railway Studebaker Co Union Pacific United States Steel Willys-Overland Sinclair OW Renee

Patriotic Boy Rejected After 18 Mile Walk

Thomas J. Echell, 18, walked from Fairbank to enlist in the marine corps but failed the medical examination for physical reasons. He had only $2 for travel, stayed at the recruiting office overnight, and left determined to seek service in another branch. His sister Ethel has no parents and one brother in the army.

Fairbank Marine Corps Thomas J. Echell Sergt. L. F. Jensen Ethel Marine Office

Rail trains run parallel to old caravan route to Palestine

Cairo reports modern railway trains now parallel the historic route to Palestine. Completion of a swing bridge over the Suez Canal at Kantara enables direct Cairo Palestine service. From Kantara the line continues along the former coastal trade trail through El Arish to Rafah on the Syrian frontier and to Gaza.

Cairo Egypt Palestine Suez Canal Kantara Port Said el Arish Ra‘fa jGaza

Archie Roosevelt Lost Arm and Leg

G D Kramer reports from Cedar Falls Iowa that Archie Roosevelt son of ex president Roosevelt was wounded in France having lost an arm and a leg in battle. He is in a hospital where Kramer's son is employed and helped to care for him.

Cedar Falls G. D. Kramer Charles France Archie Roosevelt Roosevelt Kramer

Small Town Boys Cause City Wide Alarm

Five youths from near Waterloo were arrested after a farewell party led to a racist chase on Fourth Street East. They chased and assaulted five Black girls as they left a streetcar, grabbing at them while neighbors alerted police and officers pursued for several blocks.

Waterloo Upper Fourth Street

Teutons Mock Size of Pershing Army in Munich Joke

Amsterdam reports German efforts to mislead about American army strength. A Munich Jugend joke titled Gomeopathie Doses shows Gen Pershing boasting of another transport arrival and arranging billets, illustrating propaganda aims at a French port.

Teutons Amsterdam Germany Munich

U S War Nurses in France to Benefit by Red Cross Plan

American war nurses in France will be aided by a Red Cross hospital service bureau handling nurse care and comfort. It will arrange holidays recreation convalescence and accommodations in hotels or clubs. Plans apply to both army and civilian relief nurses at home and abroad to ensure excellent working conditions. The drive aims for 2000 by July 7 and 25,000 by January.

Chicago France Red Cross Bureau of Hospital Service Army America United States Navy

Waterloo men to entrain June 26 for Camp Dodge

Waterloo draft board lists net 77 men entraining at 12: a.m. June 26 for Camp Dodge. Several transferred to other boards, with names and destinations. Also notes 103 Iowa men called for schooling, 180 grammar graduates for carpentry and telegraph work, and 400 colored Class 1 registrants to entrain July 16. Twenty Waterloo Class I volunteers sought induction July 1 at Armour Institute in Chicago.

Waterloo Camp Dodge Marceéline Q. A Levi M. Johnson Sioux Pals S. D. Fred Scott Des Moines Joseph J. Retka Chicago Relleall Charles Thomas Delaware George C. Tyler Lewiston Mont John Karapos Detroit Mich Alfred C. Cook Libertyville Carl DeWitt Deer Lodge Leo B. McDermott Madison Lee Whitney Webster S. D Thomas Hwing Minneapolis Minn Ivan B. Jean Bloomington Leo P. Worden Greenville Miss Edmund Neumeier Lima Lucien Porter New Orleans Adjutant General Iowa Moosehart Sioux City High School Waterloo Board Armour Institute of Technology Orval A. Price Cutler Joseph P. Dolan Adams Lloyd Baum Walter W. Freeborn Paul Davis Charles A- Marquart Bert J. Tucker Second West Clarence F. Geis Bratnober

World War II Casualty List Update Names and Fatalities

A detailed casualty roster lists 52 milled in action, 87 severely wounded, 3 with undetermined injuries, 13 missing, and 1 prisoner. It includes officers Lieut John D. Filtey and Sergeants Harry Gibstein and Peter Kohler among many names across multiple states and cities, with regions such as New York, Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco represented. Also noted are died of wounds and died of disease groups, plus a separate marine corps section listing 31 names in various action categories.

Waslington Kitler Cape Jessel Lowe Untropo Lilentenanta Quentn R. Logie New York Carter Ovington Paris France Tony Watson Raleigh Paul Gagere Green Bay Wis Frank Gowing Watertown George A. Hopp Oronaga Frank L. Medeiros South Boston Zawrence Trego Woodward Ohio Emil Meyer Syrac Yelvio U. Rigdon Sterling Kan Watter Seltz Bellevale James WW. Caldwell Galena James Caskey Loveland Emery C. Cohren Den Kytis Corrigan Erlinger Joe Curtis West Lyn Mass Bernard Davidoff Chicago Hmary Sheridan Wyo James W. Ray Pages Mill 5. C Wirt Rhodes Belding Mich Wiliam W. Schoville Soldiers Grove Elvis E. Svote Los Angeles Edgar W. Sellers Elketon Via Frank H. Smith Decker Mont Werbert G. Smith Milwaukee Jacob H. Smith Menominee John H. Summers Clarksburg W. Va James F. Toutloft Bayfield Zoe Vandéever Stonington Emil WH. Wanker Detroit Stanislaus Wojeciechowski Henry Walker Sturgeon Bay Charles E. Willison Gilmore City John D Adolph Block Mineola George GC. Button Franklinville Elmer M. Curtis Seattle Wash Jones L. Daetz Aurora Ore Carroll Depriest Caruth Al 8 S. Harris Richville Thomas L. Batley Erksiotna Minn Charles W. Bowen Atlantic City Ralph Damone New York City Charles F. Paffy New Haven Conn Frank J. Gael Louis B. Kleber Woorville Miss Giovanni Musceltro Ballston Spa M. V James Seanton Herman Spielberg Marine Corps Llautenants Clarence W. Smith Wart Main Street Decatur Hascall F. Waterhouse Oakland Cal Charles W. Price Isaac N. Toqne Stakesdale XN. C George G. Christensen Santa Anna Benajmin Perry Jr Bethesda Godfrey W. Anderson Proctor Minno John C. Etchison Oakdale Claud ¢. Bemusdaffer St. Louis Alton L. Danios Boston Mags Steve Halblaub Moss Gill Perry William F. Ianagan Conception Junction Adolph H. Johnson Hebron Ind

Drafted amen loses voting rights in state opinion

Attorney General Bredudage states drafted amendment will not entitle its author to vote in the upcoming state election. In New York, Ogden Mills Reid and A S Ochs and senior editors face indictment for criminal libel against Mrs. William R Hearst. In Kansas City, J I Jackson admits to murdering his wife. a seminud body is found near rail tracks at Shelbina, Missouri. In Springfield, Massachusetts, union miners push for Senate action to end the war.

Springfield Bredudage New York Ogden Mills Reid New York Tribune A. S. Ochs New York Times Night City William KR. Hearst Kansas City J. I. Jackson Shelbina Sherman

Birds Share Robins Bluebirds Nest War in Box

In Altoona Pennsylvania a robin and bluebird families occupy the same birdbox. E M Cashman reports the robins moved to the porch, the bluebirds built inside, both mothers sitting on eggs in a surprising double occupancy at the watershed.

Altoona E. M. Cashman Cashman Papa Mama Bluebird Hhey Mr. Cashman

War impacts in France and Germany described by evacuee

Corr espondence from Tautan, France, reports by Serjeant Vuillonet that Germany’s stores are empty and production focuses on war needs. He says meat rations are 250 bras weekly, with grease, sugar scarce, bread indigestible, leather nearly gone, and soldiers home urged to work in factories. Civil morale relies on tales of France’s desperate situation and unseized bells.

Tautan France Germany Serjeant Vuillonet Prante Elvitans Langer Vuillamet

Weather Outlook for Washington Week Begins Monday

Washington June 22 forecast from the weather bureau predicts showers to start the week in the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. The prediction notes unsettled conditions with periodic rain across the central region beginning Monday.

Washington, D.C Weather Bureau Upper Mississippi Lower Missouri Showera

Improved Cedar County Wisconsin farm seeks stock buyers

An 4006 acre farm near Cedar County Wisconsin seeks hardware stock groceries or general stock. Includes 212 acres hardwood timber in southern Minnesota at 45 per acre and 200 acres in Douglas County Minnesota at 50 per acre, with part payment in residence property. Also 80 acres improved Iowa farm at 125 per acre and six Waterloo houses for exchange.

Cedar County Wisconsin Minnesota Douglas County Iowa Waterloo Cedar Rapids

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