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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1918
Page
8
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter outlines want ad rates and formats noting one cent per word with minimum charges, caps and tagraphs in different styles, and a new minimum 25 cent per day rate to improve ad clarity. It emphasizes ads as Waterloo’s marketplace for all citizens.
Multiple listings including a modern six room house at 622 Campbell with phone contact, a Relh peck motel exchange option, a 1-2 acre paved street parcel with garden and fruit trees, a dairy farm near town with stock, 30 acres timber land, and a 166 acre Wisconsin dairy/bargain package with equipment. Also listings for 135 Logan Ave near Frenklin St and other regional properties with terms and contacts.
Advertisement rules state that ads ordered till forbid can only be stopped by a written instruction. A printed blank is provided to advertisers to return when discontinuing. Notices must reach the office by 10 a.m. to take effect the next day.
A garbled list of want ads and notices from a Waterloo Iowa page includes requests for an experienced dray man, a small modern house, dishwashers and waitresses, sale of Swiss bull calves, rental of unfurnished rooms, and various sales and trades. It mentions phone numbers and locations like Bluff and Grant, and includes found items, lost items, and real estate offers with brief conditions and prices.
Mrs Thomas Dolan of Aurora visited her parents and left with her two children who stayed with grandparents. Betty Putnam was bitten by a dog at Schuyler Hardman’s home near Packard and is recovering. Mrs Curtis is slowly recovering at C Miner’s home. Miss Kranz returned to Waverly after five weeks nursing. Eastern Star dinner for about 100 from Rockford Bristow and nearby towns. Four new members at the evening meeting. Miss Sulla Woolward ill but improving. Mr and Mrs Claire Cheney and sons returned from Champaign where Mr Cheney finishes ground school and will enter flying training. Presbyterian Bible class hosted a social with 40 ladies. West side children gave a program at Mrs M Feyerelsen’s with Regina Next leading. $10 donated to Red Cross.
Dunkerton column reports visitors Bernard McEntosh and Frank Wheeler from Camp Dodge, Mrs. Bessie Russell and Mildred of Republican City visiting Hannah Greene, and Dan Bartholomew recovering after a motorcycle fall. Streets crowded with autos Saturday night amid harvest, corn, grain, and manure forecasts. Skimp brothers build a large cement house and shed for tools and machinery. A Silkworm increases 4000 times its initial size after watching 28 days.
Washington June 24 The sinking of an allied transport under American charter on June 18 about 700 miles east of the Delaware capes was reported today to the navy department. The transport had no troops aboard and was westbound.
Federal court in Des Moines granted a temporary injunction allowing four interurban companies Cedar Rapids Marion line Nason City Clear Lake line Clinton Davenport Muscatine line Iowa Railway Light to charge 3-cent fares pending lease decision.
A Civil War veteran with a missing leg travels from his North Carolina home to Southport to find and meet his grandson, a volunteer soldier on a training journey. Guards, trains, and a community organizer help reunite them in a poignant meeting at the War Camp Community Service house.
Caroline Allis Kelly aged 86 died at her son’s home 926 Second Street West Waterloo after paralysis strokes Friday and Sunday. Born October 3, 1831 she lived in Goshen Indiana and California before moving to Waterloo in 1917 to be with her son Matthew Kelly. Burial in Goshen tomorrow follows services at 5 pm today led by Rev W Court. Also noted are deaths of Mrs. Charles A Slack and Mrs. Mary Rice and Samuel Collins with funeral plans and church services in Waterloo Calvary and St Josephs Catholic Church.
Rupert Benter ton of Hoquiam reports 900 quarts of whisky buried 15 miles out of town were stolen. He estimates the value at prohibition era prices would have net him 33,500 dollars for the stock and 5.50 dollars per quart profit. he questions pursuing the sheriff to recover the bootlegged goods. File clerks and nurses job notices appear, with salaries and examination dates.
Chicago and other grain markets showed an initial uptick on frost impacts in Michigan and Indiana with corn and oats futures rallying before selling pressure amid London peace talk rumors. Kansas values and hedging activity weighed, while Chicago case quotations listed mixed results for corn oats rye barley and provisions with scattered gains and declines across futures.
Reinbeck residents greet new United Presbyterian pastor Willard Mickey with a union service as Postmaster duties shift to A. M. Robinson. John E. Johnson building torn down for brick replace ment. oldest store in Reinbeck built 1877. Notables include John Dirks starting Sunset Park residence and deputy sheriff W F Benz aiding soldiers. McClure and Cameron plan to move to Davenport for government arsenal work. Market notes list June 17 82 zinc and copper prices in New York and London.
Yard by yard cattle hog and sheep prices listed from Chicago Sioux City Omaha St Louis Kansas City and St Joseph markets. Entries show receipts ranges and price bands with shifts from previous readings across hogs cattle and sheep including top and bulk figures for each market and notes on steadiness or declines.
In a mixed market, livestock prices show varied ranges for beef and veal, with hogs and cattle listed at multiple bids. Separately, New York stocks opened strong on Italian opera news, with United States Steel and Baldwin Locomotive up, rails dull, and Liberty bonds steady as markets gain breadth.
New York reports steady butter and eggs with receipts of 9 016 tubs of creamery butter and 14 828 cans of eggs. Cheese steady with 3 091 boxes. poultry prices mixed for live and dressed stock. Chicago notes butter steady and higher creamery receipts, potatoes unsettled with large city car loads. Kansas City and St. Louis list varied butter and poultry prices. London silver and money remain firm. mercantile paper rates and sugar prices forestall market activity.
Orange township reports residents visiting friends in Iowa City Chicago and Ames. Merle Kough has enlisted in the navy and left for Puget Sound training. Local families P J Blough Silas Miller H W Miller F Miller S P Hoover and S Hamer visit relatives while others go to Lake Okoboji to inspect a vocational agricultural program.
June 22 Rockford briefs report changes in residents as Clarence Bruce and family moved into the Hills residence. Oscar Jewel graduates this year and leaves for Ft Logan Colorado. Etta Hall sells a 160 acre farm to Volney Nash. Joan Groyo seeks treatment at Osaki?als sanitarium. G H Kelley family and E F Trigg travel by auto to Illinois and Ohio. John Eickmeier ships 11 cars of tea and 3 cars of hogs to Chicago.
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