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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1920
Page
4
A long OCR mix shows a Waterloo Waterloo area classifieds page with numerous Wanteds Real Estate and employment notices. Items include jobs like drivers, painters, blacksmiths, and household help. house rentals. purchases and sales of farms, land, and equipment. and real estate listings in Waterloo and Cedar Falls with contact details and prices.
A chaotic collection of real estate ads from Waterloo and surrounding areas highlights farms, acreages, and modern homes. Listings tout 80 to 160 acre tracts, improvements, proximity to Waterloo and Rochester, plus sales agents Swigart Lang Co Boling Monroe Realty and others. Includes phone contacts and varied prices.
Chicago May 10. Wheat prices surged on renewed bullish sentiment driven by a forceful advance in Canadian wheat. Corn opened easier but recovered later. prices fluctuated with July at 1.71 and September around 1.63. Trading was moderate with various advertisements interspersed through the report.
Chicago listing shows grain and provisions quotes with No. 2 yellow and white wheat values, mixed feeds, oats, rye, barley, and Cloverseed. The page also carries extensive auto sale ads for Ford, Overland, and other makes, plus wrecking and used car options from local dealers and private owners displayed with prices and contact details.
Legal advertisement details the incorporation of The For Less-Roll Top Desk, with Waterloo Iowa as main office. It lists capital stock up to 200000 dollars, directors three, officers president secretary treasurer, and initial officers Morgans Atkinson and others. It states business start April 9 1920 and planned 20 year term with annual stockholder meetings first Monday each year. It also includes miscellaneous sale notices and seed and agricultural listings.
Regional cattle hog and sheep quotes from Sioux City East St Louis and St Joseph markets show receipts ranging from 1 000 to 32 000 head. Cattle fed yearlings and fat cows steady to lower with bids from 4.00 to 13.25. hogs up to 15.50 top. sheep lambs and ewes higher with top lambs around 21.00 and 18.50 for ewes. Market condition mixed across locations.
Market listings show butter eggs and cheese with varying prices across New York Chicago and St Louis. Notable values include creamery butter around 60 cents firsts and 47 to 60 cents, eggs firsts 41 to 44 cents, and cheese around 28 to 32 cents per pound. Poultry prices ranged from 50 to 60 cents for broilers and a few fresh frozen lines.
New York stock and commodity notes describe firmer early trading aided by clearinghouse and Federal Reserve results. Cracking gains paused as Crucible Steel retreated, while rails oils and copper moved with mixed vigor and oil firms on Mexican price signals. Unfilled U S Steel orders rise to record postwar highs. sugar and silver quotes noted with global money movements in London and Santos.
Manchester Ia May 10 The son of Tom Les drowned Saturday afternoon after falling into Honey Creek three miles north of Manchester while fishing with companions. Efforts to revive him failed. A motor from city authorities arrived to aid but could not save the boy. In other news the Congregational drive at Manchester raised about $50 over goal. the church plans a debt-free dedication of the new auditorium soon and a reception for new members is set for Thursday. Local sports report Manchester defeated Delhi 14 to 1 as the ball team develops an amateur lineup for summer games. Regional notices include farm and business ads and a note on Totals and rail shipments and weathered market listings.
Chicago receipts show cattle mostly 25 cents lower with heavy weights hard to sell while calves hold. Hogs rise to about 19 to 24 dollars per cwt with lighter weights and sows steady. stockers and feeders steady. Sheep totals near 6,090 with best shorn lambs around 19.50 and bulk 17.40 to 19.00.
Local notice advertises a devotional service at First Evangelical Church for business and professional men and women Tuesday evening. The event features city speakers and is part of a church outreach, with additional classified ads appearing in the Courier.
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