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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1918
Page
4
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter outlines new want ad rates and format rules. It explains price per word, minimum charges, and changes aimed at encouraging concise ads while maintaining a busy marketplace for goods, services, and exchanges.
Cards of thanks extend to friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of husband and father with thanks for floral offerings. Also notes of lodge notices, lost watch, and various help wanted ads for jobs and trades in Waterloo.
A dense passage of rental listings and real estate sales from a mid century classifieds page. Items include rooms for rent, furnished apartments, two business rooms, modern houses, plots, and hotel property. multiple addresses such as Logan Ave near Franklin St and 622 Campbell. prices ranging from bargain homes to $850 plots. various contact details including Red and Black phone numbers.
A home on W A Granger street was entered Tuesday afternoon and money stolen. Mrs Granger unlocked the back door to visit next door, returned to find the back screen door locked, and later discovered the loss after unlocking it with a hat pin. The front door likely used a night latch to exit.
Readlyn Red Cross officers meet Tuesday and appoint Mrs J n Ham Klemp as fifth member of the executive committee and Mrs D Mersch as manager of the sewing committee. Mrs Nick Cook rejoined. Mrs J E Buhr recovering from gallstone operation at Tripoli reports satisfactory.
Mrs W D Miller and daughter Frances Water son visited Sunday with friends in Gilbertville. Miss Alice Winegar Cedar Falls visited over Sunday with Ms Jenore De Greif. Mr and Mrs Vincent O’Brien spent Sunday with Mr O’Brien’s parents in AN. Leo Bernard from Camp Dodge visited at home. Mrs Philip Fried and children from Waverly visited relatives here. Mrs P J Gales has been on the sick list.
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter outlines that ads run till forbidden must have a written order to stop. Advertisers receive a blank form to fill and return, with a deadline of 10 a.m. to discontinue the next day.
Community notes from Jesup list events and visits including Mrs. C. A. Marsh hosting E. Co. F. club, new home for Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Blaster, and several residents departing for Camp Dodge, with social gatherings at church and ballroom. Additional items cover travel to Baltimore and Seattle visitors, birthdays, and local Auburn activities.
Ten year old Miss Sarah Virginia Wohlmer of Indianapolis writes to General Pershing about Red Cross work. The commander replies from Washington praising patriotic girls and sending best wishes. Wohlmer lives at 1938 Olney Street with her parents Charles and Mrs Wohlmer.
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending June 27 1918 reported by the Waterloo Clearing House association total 1 974 174 35. Friday 8 349 626 89 Saturday 860 813 62 Monday 27 040 66 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday amounts missing. Instruments filed include deeds chattel mortgages and lien releases with totals and year over year comparisons. number of instruments to date 3 181 with a drop from last year.
New York June 27 market opened with gains in tobaccos leather motors and copper amid varied cross currents. United States Steel rose on heavy turnover while Consolidated Gas fell about two points and Liberty bonds held steady.
Chicago reports higher corn prices due to strong cash demand and hot southwestern weather boosting futures. July and August prices rose, gains offset by rainfall in Iowa and other regions. oats and provisions also firmed as trade stayed light. Local quotes list varied yellow corn and white oats across No. 2 to No. 6 grades, with mixed results in St Louis and Minneapolis markets.
Railway timetable exposes Chicago and Dubuque connections with weekend and weekday departures and arrivals. Prices for corn and yellow products are listed, along with butter eggs cheese and poultry markets and specific rates at Peoria and nearby hubs.
Raymond notices report illness in a Rev Felter family child and army-bound youths, with travel and visit notes among locals. Geneseo items include a Country Boosters meeting, birthday celebration, farm rentals, and regional family greetings amid wartime contexts. A New York Herald joke about a two constables gag appears with a rural magistrate punchline.
Chicago hogs show steady to 5¢ higher tonnage with good to best light and butcher hogs trading firm while other grades ease. Cattle receipts around 14,000 with steady to strong bids. sheep at 17,600 with sprig lambs steady and natives higher. Similar gains reported in Sioux City and Omaha markets with mixed results across hogs, cattle and sheep.
Livestock receipts in Kansas City total 19 090 with higher bid ranges across hogs cattle and sheep. Hogs sell heavy to light at various levels with bulk around 18 40 to 18 70 and pigs 16 00 to 16 73. cattle receipts 3 000 with steers 7 25 to 18 00 cows 4 75 to 14 00 heifers 5 00 to 14 00 calves 8 00 to 14 50. lambs 15 00 to 18 00 yearlings 12 90 to 16 50.
Kansas City cash grain mixed with firm to higher prices for corn futures and oats, with No. 2 yellow corn around 1.60. Hay values range from 17 to 22.50 per unit. Toledo Cloverseed and Timothy prices listed with cash and forward bids, Timothy at 3.80 cash and 4.40 in September, other months noted.
Trading closed irregularly as many minor equipment and unclassified stocks rose one to four points. General Motors and New Haven gained two points. Union Pacific and St. Paul declined moderately. Liberty 314s traded around 99.56 to 99.64, first 4s near 94.30, second 4s about 94.20 to 94.32, and 4s around 95.40.
Waterloo markets list a wide range of prices for meats produce and poultry. Prices cover butcher steers cows heifers bulls and veal, eggs butter lard and various potatoes onions and greens with wholesale and retail lines noted. Local figures reflect wartime market activity in June 1918.
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