Cattle Market Highlights and Cash Wheat Report
Chicago market news notes cash wheat prices and cattle trends with a focus on strong opening bids and mixed livestock demand. The report covers hog, cattle, and sheep receipts for the day, plus weather, corn and oats movements and nearby price shifts across Chicago St. Louis and Kansas City exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Carpets Centrk
General Commission
St. Louis
Kansas City
Bay Lights
New Home for College of Commerce on Fifth and Lafayette
The College of Commerce plans a new home on the third floor of the Fowler block at Fifth and Lafayette, with a five year lease signed by President Ekland. The 5,000 square foot space will feature enhanced light, heating, ventilation, a sanitary drinking fountain and modern offices to accommodate its growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College of Commerce
Fowler
Fifth
Lafayette
Ekland
Business College
Ecklund
Fourth
Lafayette Streets
Bank Clearings Week Ending November 2 1911
The Black Hawk County Abstract Company reports bank clearings for the week ending Thursday November 2 1911 totaling 1 190 148.46 with daily breakdowns Friday 128 440.72 Saturday 169 838.76 Monday 208 106.98 Tuesday ? Wednesday 196 488.27 Thursday ? The month of October 1911 total clearings 3 677 387.15 versus October 1910 4 (incomplete) Deeds mortgages chattel mortgages bills of sale and other instruments recorded totals shown and year to date figures 5 673 instruments recorded to date with 5 865 last year a decrease of 192 instruments.
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Black Hawk County Abstract Company
Open Trapping Season In Iawa For Mink And Muskrats
Local notice notes the opening of trapping season in Iawa on November first allowing lawful capture of mink and muskrats. The item lists various business travels and hospital visits, including Pickands Brown & Co suing Waterloo Malleable Front Works for 585 dollars and a night of pranks at West High School with tampered bells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iawa
Pickands, Brown & Co
Waterloo
West High School
Hallowe'en
The Worst Evil We Choose to Keep
A terse reflection on moral danger, arguing that the greatest evil is the one we love and fail to escape. It asserts that conscious effort is required to break free from self-imposed harm and examines the paradox of culpability in personal choices.
Gresham News Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Church Plans
Mrs John Knott and children of Waterloo visited her uncle in Gresham for a week. Lewis Miller and Oliver Smith spent time in Cedar Rapids at the Men and Religion Forward movement convention. The third quarterly circuit meeting will be in Dunkerton Evangelical church Sunday West with Presiding Elder E Nolte of Cedar Falls. no Gresham church services that day.
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Gresham
John Knott
Wateriog
Lewis Miller
Oliver Smith
Cedar Rapids
Evangelical
Dunkerton
E. Nolte
Cedar Falls
Gresham Church
Henry Myers
Naperville
Jacob Schol
Lazleton
Hamilton
Reinbeck
S. Wetzel and Son
Marl
James Ulrich
Vernon Hinch
Waterloo seeks volunteers for city convention delegates
Mayor John Rector received requests from three convention committees to send delegates from Waterloo to meetings in Kansas City Washington D C and Chicago. No expense funds are available. the honor carries no pay. Ten delegates are sought for the irrigation congress in Chicago and six for each of the other two events.
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Waterloo
John Rector
Kansas City
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Licensed to Wed and Real Estate Ads
The notice lists marriages including Sean H Mitchell Cedar Falls and Ethel M Simmons Cedar Falls, with others in Waterloo Charles City and Saskatchewan. It also promotes for sale and rental ads from Boston Brokerage, Cole Real Estate and others with prices such as 98 rents for blankets, $280 for a modern new house, $250 cash and $15 monthly payments, plus for rent $18 and $16. Contact numbers 2457-Red and 1840.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sean H. Mitchell
Cedar Falls
Ethel M. Simmons
William McGuire
Waterloo
Florence Simerson
August E. Becker
Kifie Freeland
Chauncey T. Hwilten
Saskatchewan
Mary Vollbrecht
Charles City
Surrey
Inquire
West Fifth Street
Red
West Side
Winstern
Atthuc. Cole
al Modern & Room
Iowa Freight Rate Hearings Highlight Regional Struggles
Testimony before Interstate Commerce Commissioner J. B. Harkin reveals railroads push back against Iowa's state led freight rate adjustments. Fort Dodge figures allege discriminatory charges favoring distant markets. Waterloo and Ottumwa cases show inland towns bear higher costs. Witnesses include T. F. Breen and M. Jones detailing specific rate differentials and regional impact.
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Des Moines
Railroad Congress
Iowa
T. F. Breen
Port Dodge
Iterstate
Commerce
J. 3. Harkin
Breen
Towa
Union Meeting Well Attended by City Teachers
The teachers training unions gathered last evening at First Presbyterian Church with strong turnout from all classes. Rev Me O G Munn urged religious character in child education and organizers planned another meeting in two months at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Several churches are urged to form training classes before then. See double COs for 98 cents.
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First Presbyterian Church
Anl
Robert (. Westenberg
Releas
Effin Mecullam Sones
Universalist Church
Me OG. Munn
United Presbyterian Church
Tlso
Wretminster Presbyter
Grace M. Bas United Birethren
Plymouth Congregational
Wimanuel
Calvary and
Login Avenue Evangelical
Lindon
M. E
East Park
Northminster Presbyterian
Court Fools and Peter the Great’s Court Jest
The article notes the long Russian custom of buying court fools and cites Peter the Great who kept twelve at times. It highlights the prominence of jesters in imperial courts and the enduring practice across eras.
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Russia
Peter the Great
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General Markets
Lamson Bros. & CO
Chicago Board OF Trade
Co. S. Bennett
Marsh-Place
Ilinois
South—Dakota
Shorts
Beeves
I. SoSie
H. W
N. S
Black Hawk
Ruth Smith
Tenth Street East
Hazel Gringe
Virginia Shirey
Genevieve Golinvaux
Helen O'Keefe
Beatrice Yorke
Gertrude and
Elizabeth Simonson
Washington
Boston Brokerage Co
Sycamore St
Omaha
Omaha Neb
Lord
Pia
Wellington
S. S
Moston Brokerage Co
F. McElhinney
Minneapolis
C. G. Crabtree
Fort Dodge
J. L. Powers
J. A. Webb
Belle Platne
H. Welch
J. A
Grace Jergeor
Wertha van Hoosen
Mary Thompson Hospital
van Hoosen
Budapest
Woods Millinery
Boston
Commercial St
Randall Street
Iowa Dairy
Commercial Street
Green
Vaughan Street
Heard
Locust Street
Black
Fisher Bldg
saite—Malern
Home Park School
Randolph Street
Ing
Andlloway Cols
Wit
Ness
Slite
Mr. Breen
Owly
Aly. Breen
J. M. Sullivan
Tom Robinson
Will Hargan
The
Boone Commercial Association
M.S. Jones
Willam Galloway Company
Trbuque
Mississippi River
Samuel Mahon
Ottumwa
W. G. Martin
Dubuque Shippers’ Association
Ts Cate
William Giloway Company
Wierlno
New York
Mrr. Jones
Galloway Company
Pierre
Salina
Kan
Hastings
Neb
Chartres
France
Hidward
Edward
ROY Cushman & CO
Sycamore Street
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