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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1919
Page
6
The Waterloo Courier and Daily Herald highlights its Want Ads as a central institution for the community. Prices are one cent per word with a five cent minimum, with bold and light cap formats used for different lines and notices.
A fragmented want ad page lists multiple help and rental notices. Entries include male and female labor roles such as general housework seamstress waitress kitchen helper bookkeeper and waitresses. Also appears are room rentals and various job postings with improvised contact lines and incomplete details.
A chaotic collection of notices and ads listing services from nurses and craftsmen to repairs and sales. Includes announcements for in home nursing, furniture upholstery, livery business sale, magneto repair, dressmaking, and various wanted ads. Also features vehicle listings, rental offers, and small business promotions across city addresses and phone numbers.
Markets show sharp declines as favorable weather and government stock movements press corn prices lower. July and September futures slide amid weak rally prospects while oats, provisions, and lard also soften. Regional reports from Kansas City and Minneapolis corroborate softer grain trading with varied cash bids, as notices and estate matters appear in public notices.
Hogs receipts 8000, hogs 5 to 10 cents higher across the board led by lighter weights. Cattle receipts 1000 with steers mostly lower and cows, yearlings and bulls mixed to 50 cents lower. Sheep and lambs showed strength in spring lambs while other lamb categories eased slightly.
Kansas City markets show hog receipts around 6,500 with top $20.50, heavy weights at $20.50, 20.65. Cattle receipts near 700 with beef cattle down about 50 to 75 cents, stockers and feeders down 50 to 70, veal calves up about 3. Sheep receipts none. lambs and goats firm to higher, other categories mixed. Reports from Omaha, St Louis, Sioux City, and St Joseph follow with varying hog and cattle prices and weekly comparisons.
Fragmentary notice from Gilbertville and Masonville areas mentions someone returning to Washington and leaving for the east, with references to May 4 and a family gathering over Sunday at Che Adam Shares. Details are unreadable due to OCR quality.
New York May 24 steel and copper shares led the opening market as favorable developments strengthened the sector. United States Steel rose slightly to a new yearly high while affiliated shares, Inspiration, Italy Copper, and Atchison gained, with motors and related firms showing mixed moves and shippers modestly hesitant.
Prices advanced this week as unwelcome rains slowed crop movement. Corn futures climbed while oats rose modestly and provisions showed mixed changes from declines to gains. War-time restrictions and imports from Argentina influenced markets, with rains and planetary weather delaying planting and harvest progress.
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