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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1919
Page
3
The Waterloo Courier and Daily Reporter promote want ads as a daily marketplace. Classified rates feature 1 cent per word with a 25 cent minimum. mentions light and bold type for different sections and emphasizes that ads cover all items regardless of size or value.
A dense page of small ads and notices including cards of thanks, lost items, wanted help, and various buy and sell offers. The entries feature names such as Waterloo Evening Courier, Madam Speed, Mack, and several local addresses and phone numbers. Promotions for wholesale fruits, shoes repair, and farm work appear alongside lost jewelry, class pins, and job postings.
A jumble of rental offerings and real estate notices appears. Listings include furnished rooms on Lime Street and Almond Street, a furniture store building for lease, and various homes for sale with prices and contact numbers. Also includes real estate ads for farms and acreage, loan notices, and a municipal public works notice about street resurfacing in Waterloo Iowa.
A 1919 Waterloo notice outlines a resolution of necessity for street improvements and paving costs, detailing contractor terms, bonds, and assessments against parcels within 300 feet. The document notes market upheaval and wheat imports affecting prices, with further transit and provision market observations.
Hog receipts 36 000, top around 21.07, bulk 20.76 21.00, sows 20.66. Cattle receipts 19 009, steers steady to higher, calves up 25c, sheep receipts 12 000, lambs unevenly higher. Independent markets show varied gains with Kansas City and St Louis quotes also rising.
Market summaries show butter creamery prices steady in New York with receipts 13 675 tubs, corn oats eggs and other commodities listed for St Louis and Toledo. Cotton futures quoted with May and October points, and livestock sections note cattle hogs and poultry prices. Local notices from Waterloo and Greene include auctions, sales and community updates.
Fragmented ad text lists a 400 acre farm with $10,000 improvements, large barn, water, terms, and a 196 acre farm with various features. It also mentions a legal description Lot 13 Block 2 Alford's subdivision and utilities paid. Numerous automobile sale notices follow including Ford Touring Car, Priest Cadillac in town, Overland Touring, Oakland family car, Saxon Six, and other used vehicles with contact numbers.
Stock market opens with firmness but limited activity as traders digest prior week volatility. Tobacco shares lead gains with American Snuff up four points and Lorillard seven, while Royal Crown and Texas Company, Harvester, Linseed, Inspiration Copper, and others rise one to two points. Canadian Pacific climbs four points as rails gain modestly. food, sugar, utilities names also advance. Trading slows into the midday ahead of a holiday, with United States Steel showing small losses offset by broad strength elsewhere. The session closes on a firmer note.
The Italian poet Gabrielle D Annunzio fell ill with fever after addressing the Augusteum and hopes to lead a Rome parade Monday to proclaim the annexation of Dalmatia and Fiume. Similar demonstrations were reported in other Italian towns. Brescia planned to present its bronze statue of Victory to Fiume after revoking a gift to President Wilson.
Paris May 5. Clemenceau told Figaro editor he believes he has done his best and that if a good peace comes it will also be a better peace through alliance with Britain and the United States. He noted cabinet discussions after Tardieu read terms and discussed Italy talks and dispatches with the Italian delegation. The editor says Clemenceau hopes Italy will rejoin the allies.
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