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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1928
Page
16
Classified page fragment shows diverse ads for professional services and employment. Listings include accountants, law firm, chiropractors, physicians, optometrists, podiatrists, and several job offers for teachers, waitresses, housekeepers, and various occupations, with contact details and locations in Chicago and surrounding areas. The ads reflect a mid-century urban classifieds scene seeking staff, medical professionals, and tradespeople.
Real estate notices advertise several affordable properties in Waterloo. A non resident offers No 220 South Street a three room one bath home with large yard and double garage for 5500, about 8500 value, with drive by viewing advised and telephone contact. Other listings include a seven room two story with garage on Home Park Boulevard and a Lynselow five room home with breakfast nook and fireplace, all marketed with payment terms and Sunday open house.
A jumble of agricultural properties for sale or trade in multiple counties and towns, including 120 acres near Gladbrook with good buildings and 5% terms, 80 acres 2 miles from town on graveled road, 140 acres near Reads, 400 acres near Allison called the Garden farm, and 190 acres in Buchanan county with strong buildings. Also an assortment of used cars including 1923 Ford Touring, 1924 Ford Touring, 1923 Overland Touring, 1922 Velie Sedan, 1919 Dodge Touring, a Chevrolet Landau, Coupe, Ford Tudor, and a seven-room house trade offer, with dealer notes and contact through Courier ads.
A numbered classified style notice lists services including re roofing with roll roofings asbestos asphalt and edge grain cedar shingles by Duneflberg Deeper and Dropper C at 327 W Fifth. It also promotes plastering patchwork chimney repairs and reasonable prices with contact 18 Plastering Patchwork Chimney Repairs and a separate ad for bicycle phonograph washing machine and town mower repair at Winslow's 326 West Park Ave. A miscellaneous line invites hiring a man who needs work and offers ash hauling black dirt and fertilizer with phone 691-M.
A dense string of rental notices describes furnished and unfurnished rooms, apartments, and houses for rent in various locations. Listings include modern homes near Oak Avenue, Thompson Avenue, and West Third Street, with contact phones and prices. Many items mention light housekeeping, private entrances, garages, and proximity to downtown or amenities, plus multiple two to four room flats. The notices urge quick contacting agents like H. Lewily, W. Loesbe, and local offices.
Public sale set for Wednesday May 16 at 2 PM in Waterloo to settle Gora Shaw estate. Two residences at corner of Fifth and Sycamore streets to be sold at the properties, one jet deep, both well rented and in fair repair. Potential buyers urged to attend. sign of house. Calls for details to Good Income Property, 13-room model home and other real estate listings appear in the ad.
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