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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1919
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier details want ad pricing and policies. Ads cost one cent per word with a 25 cent minimum, lines in caps, and a change to per line rates. The notice justifies higher handling costs and urges clearer, better written small ads for accuracy and value.
Various terse classified notices seek to buy rent sell or trade items and services including tools bicycles guns locks trunks motorcycles and furniture. Also requests for help wanted female help office fixtures and real estate ads mix with farm land and business opportunities across multiple rural and urban venues.
Local items report W H Lucas returning to Nebraska after a family visit H W Neon and family back from Seattle to Logan Avenue. Marriage license issued to G R Moon and Margaret McKelyy. Interstate Tractor receivers authorize G B McManus salary 500. Pvt Hugh L Mellon at Camp Dodge visiting parents. Edna Gompson now in Washington D C. James Smajl injured in elevator accident resting easily. Prof Joseph Walker to lecture on modern poetry at Grinnell College library. Hi g boys host Y W club event. refreshments served. Blanche Edwards visiting New York for nurse training. Willen Borg files divorce suit against G C Borg with alimony requests. Charlies City Waterloo volleyball game set at Y M C A gym. Miss Blanch Chawsga dies in Elgin. J A Francis to begin duties as county highway engineer. Teamsters union hosts smoker at Labor temple. Cleveland writes from Nice about furlough and meeting Charles M Schwab. Bishop Dowling to be installed as bishop of St Paul March 25.
A cryptic dated note from Buchanan Optical Co lists a midnight temperature range and scattered fragments of numbers and names. The text is garbled and unreadable in large portions but hints at past readings and a brief comparison to yesterday’s conditions.
March 5 report says Governor Harding will appear before the legislature tomorrow to explain the Rathbun case. The session will be led by the chief executive and the attorney general, amid ongoing controversy.
The governor sent four messages to both the senate and house before noon today seeking actions on grain provisions and farm supports. Provisions and weather concerns influenced May and July grain futures as speculative buying nudged prices higher. Reports show mixed activity in oats and other grains as lawmakers prepare for a joint session in the house chamber to hear evidence on spring wheat acreage and related pardons.
Livestock receipts and price ranges show hogs and cattle advancing in Chicago yards with mixed results across categories. Hogs bring $18.15 to $20.45 on bulk sales, cattle steady to higher on beef steers and butcher cattle, and sheep, lambs, and ewes all trending higher with prime and choice steady to strong. Market notes from St. Louis and New York reflect strengthening trends and varied demand as packers adjust offerings.
Miss Muffet visits a food show eating seven breakfast foods and gathering 10 pounds of samples. A free weighing machine shows a 10 percent weight gain, while doubling intake would yield 11 percent. Determine her arrival weight. The second puzzle: a pocket-book change involved a 50 cent piece, three 4 cent pieces, and two cents.
In municipal court Lady George was fined one dollar for illegal transportation of liquor and jailed 30 days for nonpayment. Mrs Prosnot awaits hearing. The suspects left Illinois Central No 11 with 39 quarts of whisky in four suitcases claiming personal family use. Value estimated at $200. 모두 Balearians and a nephew of the woman.
Clyde Williams, famed Missouri Valley football figure and Ames athletic director for nearly a decade, resigns to pursue a business opportunity in Sheldon Iowa with Homer Hubbard. Professor Same Brers declines to confirm the report as rumors circulate among Iowa State circles.
A Chicago subcommittee opened inquiry into Alderman John J. Coughlin's proposal to submit a pari mutuel horse race betting law to the legislature. Bathhouse John, as he is known, argued racing would bring revenue to Chicago, citing his history with horse racing and urging action. The session also touched on grain and livestock market updates from Chicago and nearby regions.
New York March 6 butter receipts up to 19 59 14c creamery butters higher than extras 92 score extra 8 4844c firsts 54 cents packing stock current make No 2 SHB3GLC eggs firm receipts 17 058 FS fresh gathered extras 46 16 47c regular packed extra seats 3438 4 age ditto firsts 44 45 P4515 cheese strong receipts 4 756 pox ies state current make specials 32 (il4ge ditto average run Si 3nee poultry dressed quiet prices unchanged old roosters 3 4c others unchanged Chicago March butter higher for farmers 45 ic eggs lower receipts 17 932 cases firsts 89 4c ordinary firsts 29 14 lace cases included BSc inde potatoes higher receipts 22 cars Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota shalk and sacks 1 65 150 alive higher springs 33c LIBERTY BOND PRICES New York March 3 liberty bonds price unchanged first 4s 94 10 second 4s 84 96 third 4s 94 96 Kansas City March 5 butter eggs poultry unchanged raw sugar March 5 centrifugal 7. fine grain
Waterloo Markets item lists wholesale and retail prices for flour butter potatoes and meats with commodities like oats hay hides and stock items. Stocks and Bonds section notes irregular early trading in rail shares, oils, motors and metals with gains in shippings sugars tobaccos US Steel and General Electric before a heavy close.
New York March relies that the New York Cotton Exchange closed today to permit members to readjust trading to provisions of a recent wheat bill passed by Congress. Trading will resume tomorrow with contracts adjusted for liquidation under the new futures act.
The church officers council met at a noonday YWCA luncheon and approved a provisional program for the upcoming First Methodist church gathering set for April 6 7 and 8 Rev J B Smith was elected deputation chairman to replace R Rohde who cannot attend The secretary treasurer chosen was Rev Clyda J Askins Interest runs high with requests for family worship and stewardship conferences predicting about 1000 attendees over the three days Wrestling results include Clarence Eklund defeating Helmert Myre to retain the light heavyweight title and Paul Prehn winning all three straight balls in an exciting match at Charles City.
Hog receipts show higher prices with top at 18.15 and bulk between 7.4 and 8.0 per hundredweight. Cattle receipts 5,500 weak steer prices 12.50 to 18.00, cows and heifers 5.75 to 15.00, calves 6.00 to 14.00. Sheep receipts 1,400 higher with ewes around 15.0 to 25.0.
Paris reports Dr. Frank Goodnow, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, chosen to assist in framing a Polish constitution. He is an international authority on political and economic subjects, though he says he has not been officially notified of the appointment.
The International Harvester Company's Argatzar branch in Tavkir, Russia, was looted and damaged by Bolshevik troops with Soviet government approval. Loss estimated about 400000 dollars. Serbian King Peter to retire in favor of Prince Regent Alexander, per Belgrade reports.
A 240 acre farm offered at 465000 dollars. Buyer pays 10900 dollars cash and 20 annual payments of 1600 dollars each. No interest is stated. Terms present a simple owner financing option to acquire the farm.
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