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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
6
Classifieds show dense, scattered job and real estate ads plus public notices in Waterloo 1920 era, with multiple incomplete entries for domestic work, factory positions, piano tuning, farm labor, rentals, and real estate sales mixed with legal notices and commodity quotes. The text reflects a busy classifieds page with many personal and business requests alongside estate and public notices.
Trading on the corn board saw offerings readily absorbed despite notable profit-taking by longs. May futures opened higher at around 41.40 and faced mixed sentiment as weather and credit fears influenced opinions. Prices fluctuated with activity described as cautious amid broader market nerves and intermarket rumors.
Chicago market notes hogs down with weaker demand and lower prices across weights while cattle, including cows and veal calves, show steady to firm prices. Receipts reach about 71 000 hogs and 11 000 cattle plus calves with light demand for light weights and occasional price declines in lighter lots.
Iowa and Missouri markets show receipts rising with heavy cattle trading at Omaha Neu Maren and St Louis. Be elder hogs and pork cuts rally as export outlook brightens while lambs and yearling wethers trade steady to higher across regions.
Receipts at Kansas City Livestock Market reach 3,100 cattle with higher quotes for beef steers and heifers. Prices vary widely by grade from common to prime, veal calves listed, and feeder lambs noted with varied ranges. Pigs and nursing stock also reported with miscellaneous figures.
Receipts: Hogs 3,000 mixed light and heavy trade at 13.80 to 14.50, bulk around 13.80. Cattle receipts 800, strong beef steers 12.50 to 15.00, short fed 10.00 to 15.50, cows 7.00 to 5.00, canners 4.00 to 6.50, veal calves 8.00 to 16.00, stockers 7.00 to 10.00, feeding cows and heifers 5.50 to 9.00, common calves 6.00 to 8.50. No sheep.
St Joseph Missouri cattle and sheep market summary shows receipts for cattle at 1,499 with higher prices for steers and cows, calves and heifers. Sheep receipts are listed with lambs and ewes trading at steady to firm levels across the sale, reflecting broader live stock price movements in the region.
Topeka dispatch reports Warren Wileson, prohibition enforcer for Kansas, visiting retail growers to warn of penalties for selling large quantities of lemon and vanilla extracts for beverage use. He notes many extracts are misused, bay rum and perfumes causing sickness, and explains external-use preparations with high alcohol must include tartar emetic as required by law.
Mary Pickford, the film actress, divorced Tuesday in Minden Nev from Owen Moore, eluded reporters as she left Reno and boarded a closed auto with her mother and maid. The party moved swiftly toward San Jose, with no one permitted to speak to the press during the Reno to Oakland transit.
The nominating committee drafting Central Labor union ticket for mayor faces delays with no official lineup. Labor candidate N. W. Frisbie will meet this afternoon. Friends of F. A. Sporle push a ticket as a triangular contest nears. Several candidates for lower offices have agreed to run.
Levi R. Bennett died at his daughter Mrs George Quivay's home two miles east of Cedar Falls this morning. He was born November 8 1834 in Granger and was a Civil War veteran. Survived by five children, many siblings, and a wife who died about 14 years ago. Body taken to Kistner's mortuary for funeral plans.
Classified item listing buoyant real estate offer in Cedar River Park with a 6 room home featuring electric and gas utilities, sleeping porch, garage, shade trees and convenient location. sale terms demand $950 down and $20 monthly. River front lot sale includes paving sewer water and utilities with shade trees. includes contact numbers. Also note help wanted for addressing circulars and a Western flat for rent on Wellington Street with toilet.
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