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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1915
Page
4
An old newspaper classified item announces a vacant and improved property or space listed by Charles 8 Blobley with a photo, offered at 21 dollars, located opposite Union Depot.
Mixed classifieds offer wanted items and rentals. Requests for second hand clothing and shoes with contact details, various rental properties including large 7 room modern house, modern apartments, bungalows, and rooms. Also numerous for sale items from poultry and seeds to sewing machines and furniture, with phone numbers and addresses.
For sale real estate listings from A W Chamberlin Co and others across Minnesota. Black soil farms in Howard and Mower counties. prices range from 30 to 4000 dollars per acre with terms offered. Also storage and moving services, business opportunities, and medical ad for piles treatment. Includes several locations: Waterloo, Emmett County, Norman County, Clay County, Nora Springs, Des Moines, Minneapolis.
Market close steady with a 2-4 to 21-3 net decline in grains as corn futures faced selling pressure amid improved spot inquiry and broad weakness into wheat. Cattle and hogs faced modest price shifts in Chicago and South Omaha with receipts sizable and demand uneven. hogs and sheep showed varied early activity before afternoon adjustments. Provisions softened on plentiful hog receipts while cattle and sheep markets posted cautious openings and steady to lower price movement across major trading centers.
Bank clearings in the United States for the week ending April 29 reported to Bradstreet's Journal total 3 241 568 000 dollars, down from 3 603 052 000 the prior week and 3 246 031 000 a year ago. Canadian clearings reached 2 133 457 000, versus 151 244 000 last week and 161 564 000 year earlier, with percentages of change from last year summarized after the weekly results.
Waterloo jitney buses prove popular with about a dozen cars in service. Operators report rapid growth and dividends, with plans to run between downtown and ball park during baseball season and routes to Cedar River beach Byrnes park and other business and residential areas. Chief Leighton and family returned from California trips, visiting fairs and cities on the way home.
Chicago grain prices show wheat with No 2 red at 1 83 to 1 64 and No 4 red 1 61, and Hy varieties around 1 63. Corn prices list No 2 yellow 0 784 to 0 79, with several other yellow white and mixed grades in the 0 77 to 0 79 range. Oats No 2 white about 0 56 to 0 57, with No 4 white near 0 63.
Four Waterloo pastors Rev W F Spry Rev A J Northrup Rev F Q Brown and Rev A Daker will attend the Waterloo district conference at Nora Springs opening today and running to Wednesday noon. The gathering may name Bishop Frank Bristol's choice for district superintendent with local candidates Spry and Shoemaker favored. Meanwhile four gloves found discarded in A R Eggleston’s cellar likely stolen from a hand.
An asset and liability statement sworn April 21 1915 by E L Johnson vice president and C R Davis secretary of the trust company in Black Hawk County Iowa shows total assets of 1 218 355 64 and total liabilities of 1 218 355 64. The report lists bonds discounted or purchased 1 120 449 44 deposits 533 071 05 capital stock 150 000 00 and debenture bonds 315 207 80 with notes sworn before Notary Belle Hough and attestations by two directors Carleton Sias and W C Logan.
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter claims its Want Ad is inserted in nearly every Waterloo home. With about 6,500 households in the city, the paper distributes an evening copy to each residence.
Rail schedules show multiple lines including Minneapolis St Paul to various endpoints, Des Moines area connections, and Waterloo Cedar Rapids routes. It lists local, express, and freight departures and arrivals with numerous station stops and note on trains stopping at centers like Gilbertville Urbana and Brandon on signals.
Our New Directory will go to press about May 1. New telephones to be installed. Directory advertising and changes in present usage should be arranged for as early as possible. Call our Business Office, Telephone No. 2000. Corn Belt Telephone Company.
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