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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1920
Page
4
A chaotic OCR listing shows numerous Wanted notices for bookkeepers, cooks, waitresses, salesmen, and farm labor, plus rental ads for rooms and houses in Waterloo. It includes rates, addresses, and contact hints, with scattered local business names and street references.
Rental ads offer a vacuum sweeper at 31 per day with attachments 1 50 day delivery and pickup. Multiple housing notices include bungalow for sale 718 Logan Ave Oak Ivory finish and new fixtures priced 4204 cash and balance, rooms for rent at 4230 Bratnober Street and 512 West Jenn Ave, and a general office help request in K 14 Courier care.
At New Orleans, November, Chinese crew members aboard the British steamer Elmleaf were wounded when guards opened fire to quell a mutiny during a shore leave turmoil. Twenty four Chinese participated, arming with knives, wine scrap iron as they surged from the forecastle. Some hid in riverbank woods. most surrendered after rapid gunfire. The Elmleaf, bound New Orleans to Tampico, is anchored at Good Hope about 15 miles upriver.
Cattle firm up to 25c higher while hogs advance 25 to 35c. Demand steady for butcher cows and heifers, calves quoted around 14.50 to 15.00 with some higher spots. Receipts about 15,000 cattle and 9,000 hogs. native fat lambs and sheep mostly steady to lower with ewes near 7.00.
From London a Soviet note requests Britain to withhold support for anti soviet leaders Balakovich and Petliura who continue hostilities after the Poland peace. Gregory Krassin, Soviet representative, handed the note alleging Entente aid to these forces and urging quiet British noninvolvement.
In Kansas City Missouri on November 2 cattle receipts reached 8,000 with higher bids. top cows bid at 15.90 while stock and feeder cattle closed weak except primes. calves and vealers up to 14.00 with hedges and canners steady to modest gains. Hogs sold mixed with good weights 12.85 to 14.30 and overall hog futures moderate. Sheep receipts 5,000 with higher values. Western yearlings around 11.00 to 13.50 with fatted lambs near 13.50 and feeding lambs about 11.25.
East St. Louis market notes cattle receipts 41 500 with steers 50 cents higher tops at 15.50 per cwt. Yearling steers and heifers up 25 cents. canners and cowy stable to higher. Calves and feeders steady. Hog receipts 6 000 with top around 12.50 and loads 14.00 to 15.30. Sheep receipts 2 000 with lambs to 18.93 and bulk 12.00 to 12.06. ewes to 5.00–6.00.
Hogs receipts 1,200 higher with mixed price ranges from 12.50 to 14.25 per hundredweight and heavy hogs around 32.25. Cattle receipts 600 higher with fed steers and yearlings from 9.59 to 16.50, grass cows around 5.25, fat cows 3.00 to 12.00, canners 3.50 to 5.00, yealers 5.00 to 12.50, feeders 8.50 to 10.50, and stockers noted with varied figures.
The report notes higher receipts for cattle and sheep, with prices for fat cattle and feeders rising. It also references a proposal in Paris to transfer an unknown soldier’s body to Westminster Abbey for Armistice Day, and a related plan for an unknown soldier burial in St. Joseph Missouri.
Washington Nov 2 Associated Press reports fewer railroad deaths in 1919 than any year since 1890, with 6 978 killed and 149 053 injured nationwide, according to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Market notes list price moves for beef poultry and potatoes, while London silver quotes hold.
A mélange of market listings from Waterloo and Plainfield with items like artesian creamery and fresh butter, potatoes, hay, and hides alongside a Paris cabinet meeting noting Leon Bourgeois Rene Viviani and Gabriel Hanotaux as France’s delegates to the League of Nations assembly in Geneva beginning Nov. 15, plus a Rock Island game postponement and a Dallas murder acquittal.
LaCrosse Wisconsin November 2 farmhand John G Bier was arrested on a murder charge connected to the death of Nicholas Biessen Brinkman Ridge farmer whose body was found with the top of the head blown off by a shotgun. The coroner ruled death by self inflicted gunshot.
Texas voters faced fair but chilly weather as large turnout was anticipated. Democrats forecast success for the state ticket while Republicans argued victory in the ninth and fourteenth districts and marked the sixth as doubtful. The Herald notes the rise of a new American party led by James E. Ferguson and T. F. McGreegor, with plans for nationwide postal service links and a vigorous campaign.
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