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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1918
Page
5
City council minutes from Waterloo dated June 4 1918 show routine motions approving prior minutes, referring liquor and road issues to committees, and authorizing licenses and bonds. The records include street work bids and notices to affected departments, with financial settlements and road paving contracts noted.
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter announces a new rate: one cent per word for want ads with a 23 cent minimum. The paper notes higher handling costs and urges clearer, more descriptive ads to boost effectiveness and readership at press time.
Memorandum states ads for Pill Forbid may be discontinued only upon written order. Discontinuation must reach Ubis offices by 10 am otherwise ads run until the next day.
Multiple lodging options in one notice show furnished rooms for heat light and water, near Glathrune and Mullan streets, plus housekeeping rooms. Also numerous real estate and sale notices, including a modern motel in Reinbeck, Wisconsin farm liquidation, used cars and general merchandise. Names and addresses include W. C. Brownlee, 23h Legal Ave, Campbell 622, Red 383, Grant Ave, and 806 Globe Bldg, St. Paul.
For sale or trade two entries appear. One offers four room cottages on a corner lot with payment in part by a vacant lot or used car. Another advertises a strictly modern seven room house near Cedar Falls with a wartime line and contact via Waterloo address or phone.
Notices warn that after June 23 the signer is not responsible for others debts. Another notice records James Black Dry Goods to increase authorized capital stock by 300000 to total 600000 with shares of 100 each. The amendment was approved May 31 1948 at Waterloo Black Hawk County Iowa and filed with the Secretary of State. James Black, President. James M. Graham, Secretary.
A cluttered housekeeping of wants and offers including job notices for two men with grocery or laundry experience, hotel dine of products sales, and a range of sale items such as washing machines, dressers, stoves, bookcases, rockers, library tables, beds, and a Hupmobile roadster. Also rental housing, meat market work, a meat cutter, and various small ads for rooms, cottages, and services with contact numbers.
Marble Rock June 25 updates include Rev J S Littey and family visiting Mitchell relatives, Ray Lamb at Fort Sill spending 10 days, Mr and Mrs Will Wilson of Sprague visiting friends, and the death of Nick Ewen after cancer. Local church events, choral society gathering at Ed Swant home, and transfers by Boyd Transfer Co and L & Parsons Storage noted along with real estate transfers and insurance prices.
A dated OCR styled rental brief lists several rooms and apartments for rent with contact numbers. Readable entries include a furnished room near 3008 Mulberry, a two room modern apartment on Jefferson, a nice modern furnished room near East Fifth, partly modern unfurnished rooms at 710 East Eighth, and a single- or three-light housekeeping room at 602 West Fourth.
Toledo data show cloverseed and Timothy prices with monthly futures and cash terms, while cotton futures in New York open steady then close higher on July and later months. Mercantile paper and metal exchanges list rates and spot prices, with gauges for coins and silver, loans, andcall money adjustments.
Dublin data point reports 40000 rounds of ammunition seized at Smithfield in a suspected large scale arms smuggling attempt. Belfast found 6000 cartridges with further parcels in Dungannon and Portadown. Dublin shipment was hidden in sacks of oats and tied to a brother of an internee Sinn Fein member.
June items note Hay Stevenson returning from Oregon to consider relocating. Mrs Mary Pierce and Miss Anna Goodsell surprise friends by driving in Mrs Pierce's car arriving Friday. A carload of hogs was shipped to Chicago Thursday. Mr and Mrs Jake Hoffman of Fairmount arrived at his parents home Wednesday. A Fourth of July celebration at Littleton will benefit the Red Cross with sports and a can making event.
Readable livestock data shows hog receipts near 29 000 in Chicago with higher prices for good hogs and packing grades. Cattle receipts around 6 000 in Sioux City and Omaha with beef steers up about 25 cents, calves up, and sheep largely steady to higher across listed markets.
Kansas City livestock receipts total 13 000 hogs with prices 15.90 to 16.50 for light and pigs 16.00 to 16.50. Cattle receipts 10 000 with steer prices 17.00 to 17.75, cows 6.00 to 13.00, calves 3.00 to 14.00. Sheep receipts 8 000 with lambs 16.00 to 18.50, yearlings 13.90 to 16.50, wethers 12.09 to 14.00, ewes 10.00 to 13.00. St Louis receipts show hogs 10 000 with lights 16.35 to 16.55 and heavies 16.26 to 16.40, cattle 3 000 with beef steers 21.50 to 17.60, heifers 9.50 to 15.50, calves 7.75 to 14.00. Sheep 3 500 with ewes 22.00 to 14.06.
New York butter and cheese prices steady with varied receipts and grades. Chicago butter hold, creamery stocks and cases reported. Poultry and eggs steady to unsettled across markets. Sugar steady in New York with London silver and money rates noted.
Stocks opened firm led by copper and motor shares then eased on United States Steel Baldwin locomotives and industrials. Oils and shipping rose about 1 to 3 points while Liberty bonds stayed steady. midday losses trimmed by renewed offerings. closing irregular with rail movements narrow and uneven. Waterloo market reports cattle and hog values with mixed butcher steers and cows, veal, and hay prices in a final daily summary.
Creamery butter quotes and wholesale retail prices alongside farm produce entries. Clarksville notes include Max Freitag visits, wiring for a new cannery, a church district superintendent’s weekend trip, and local families traveling or enlisting. A serious bull attack injures two sisters. May Burroughs recovers. Crop conditions improve with recent rains and warm weather. oats, rye, corn, and gardens show strong growth despite strawberry damage.
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