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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1929
Page
16
Classified coal ad lists varieties and prices for Pocahontas Briquets Imperial Lump and other grades. Mentions outlets in Kentucky and West Virginia with cash orders and promotional line urging customer business. Includes phone and address references for Water Street outlets and a large Nut coal mention.
A vintage coal advertisement proclaims good will, quality coal, and low prices. It touts Pocahontas Lump, Peerless Coal, and Beechwood from Western Kentucky, with listings for Egg and Lump sizes, plus discounts like Green Stamps on larger cash orders. The copy targets winter buyers, urging phone orders and competitive pricing across multiple regional brands and depots.
A rapid-fire column lists coal wood potatoes pine kindling and other sale items. Ample entries include cash deals for fuel products by Home Coal Co J W Maollan Ave and misc goods like LLoyd Loom baby carriages and Chingse Lanterns with contact phones 1715 206 1734 4380 and 2844 plus a Brown Bobby Doughnut Machine at 626 Dawson St.
In Black Hawk county Iowa State, Carl Redman is appointed administrator of Ruth Lawrence Redman deceased. All debts must be paid and all claims presented to the undersigned or the district court clerk for allowance. Dated 1620, THOMPSON, Clerk District Court. Wenner and Mosier, Attorneys. Newton, Waterloo, Iowa.
Waterloo Ta city council met in special session at 3 30 pm Oct 4 calling a special meeting for Oct 9 to consider contracts for sewer construction on Concrete Avenue Nowell Street Woodlawn Avenue Derbyshire Road Quincy Street Butler Street Kingaley Avenue Avalon Avenue Wallgate Avenue Town Thorne Avenue Newton Street and Hawthorne Avenue and a newer contract for associated works. The meeting will discuss resignation of Mayor Guana.
Waterloo city council, held Oct 20 1929, elected E E Peck to fill the unexpired mayoral term after Glenn A Tibbitts resignation. Council approved bids from Sieg Construction for sewer work, heard bond and contract items, and adopted several resolutions and ordinances, with detailed street and curb projects and traffic improvements discussed.
Hogs receipts 2,500 with 125 direct. prices mostly steady to higher. Cattle receipts 50, with fed steers and yearlings trading 12.50 to 15.60 per hundredweight. grass cows 6.50 to 7.75. stockers and feeders 5.75 to 41.95. Sheep receipts 100. slaughter lambs and feeding lambs higher. top ewes 5.60, yearlings to 11.00.
Receipts: cattle 5 500 hogs 2 000 calves 300 sheep 9 600. Cattle fed cattle and yearlings mixed. prices varied with weight and grade. Hogs steady with spot market strong. sows 180 to 230 lbs top around 2.10. piglets mixed. Sheep receipts steady with better lambs noted. lambs around 13.00, ewes near 8.20.
Prices for Liverpool and Navy cotton were steady today with middling and mid ranges quoted. Futures opened steady for December through July while Chicago market figures showed little change across the board with bonds and commodities holding near prior levels.
A garbled list of international currency quotes and rates for nations including Britain France Germany Italy Norway Denmark Poland Czecho Slovakia and Poland plus references to Tokyo and Montreat. The text shows inconsistent figures and many transcription errors, indicating a smudged OCR from a historical newspaper page.
A fragment lists grain colors and sample notes including yellow and white varieties. Mentions Peoria, Nevada, and assorted color codes such as yellow and white with reference to sample aruda. No clear event or outcome. reads as a catalog-like OCR snippet of grain attributes.
Omaha market data shows No 1 Dutch wheat at $1.29, No 9 hard and No 2 spring wheat also listed. Corn prices include No 4 yellow and No 1 mixed, with No 4 White oats noted. details appear in condensed grain quotes from the local exchange.
The report cites Monday figures with cattle and hog estimates. It lists cattle at 5 000 and hogs at 46 000 for the next period, with beef receipts around 29 000 and total hogs forecast near 154 000. The data appears from Onicnko dated November 2 1-unemelal enli matea.
Wheat futures drop on halted North American exports and ample European supplies. Chicago quotes show December at 1.2815, March 1.354, May 1.387 with nearby declines. Minneapolis receipts 146 cars with No. 1 northern at 1.283-1.305 and various durum prices. Corn and oats follow weaker tone amid unsettled wheat.
Kansas City grain receipts show 97 cars of wheats for November with No 2 hard and No 3 nominal values around 1.23 to 1.27 per unit and No 2 red at about 1.27 to 1.45, plus 24 cars corn with No 2 and No 3 bids near 9 to 12 cents. Additional receipts list 6 cars oats with No 2 white around 7 cents and No 3 bids near 4 cents.
Chicara on November 2 reports potatoes receipts by car with 430 cars on track and 617 cars in shipments, prices for sacked round whites from Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota range around 2.15 to 2.90 per unit, Early Otitos and Bursets listed with varied figures. St Louis grain market notes No 2 red wheat at 6.33, No 2 hard 1.28 to 1.28, corn No 2 mixed 6c, No 2 white 64p, oats No 3 white 48c.
Chicago futures closed with notes on storage standards for December and January at 40% and 43%c respectively. Eggs show refrigerator standards for November with 4c, and new price for November 31c in December at 434k. Minneapolis flour market lists shipments at 4,305 and bran at 38.00 and 29.00.
Chicago weekly grain note expects market uplift as visible U.S. wheat stocks shrink while spring delivery nears. Board members predict Farm Board actions may lift prices and Orient trade may accelerate. Provisions fall as traders await Dekalb era and Berona supply signals temper demand.
Trade board quotes show No 1 hard corn and mixed corn prices, various yellow corn bids, oats and white oats figures, timothy seed and cloverseed values, and listed provisions including ribs and bacon with several price points across Nov 2 4.
New York and Chicago reports show varied receipts for butter creamery eggs cheese and poultry with mixed color eggs and graded firsts for eggs and steady cheese and dressed poultry. Kansas City wholesale data lists eggs firsts and assorted meats with unchanged overall tone.
Cattle and hogs led a mixed session with 3500 head as hogs steady to higher on select loads while cattle, calves, and sheep showed declines from week-ago levels. Top hogs around 9.55 per cwt. fat cows and bulls varied. lambs fetched up to 14.75 with bulk near 12.50 to 14.75.
Receipts totaled about 2,000 hogs with steady to strong trends and tops near 9.10. Cattle receipts around 500 with feeding steers and yearlings around 9.00 to 10.00, beef cows 5.25 to 6.50, best heifers about 13.50. Sheep receipts 1,500 with wool lambs cited 10.00 to 13.60, feeding lambs near 11.00 to 13.00.
Peoria Illinois livestock market report shows hogs steady with top bids around 9.93 dollars. Barrow and gilt prices indicated near 9.10 to 9.20 per hundredweight, with lighter offerings and wholesale demand noted for the day.
Chicago November 2 Hog receipts 7,000 with 5,000 direct arrivals. prices steady to higher, butchers 250-300 lbs range 9.40 to 10.35, 200-250 lbs 9.40, sows 7.50, boars 5.95 to 6.18. log division active while cattle and sheep mostly steady with wide shifts.
Prices from Iowa packing centers today show Town markets with varied rates on hogs. Grear Rapids pays 8.75 for 350 lb primes and 7.65 to 7.25 for over 400 lbs. Des Moines lists primes from 8.30 to 8.75 with gains for heavies. Ottumwa notes unchanged ranges from 7.93 to 8.60 across weight classes.
Sioux City stockyards report weekly receipts of 800 calves and 1,500 hogs with steady to lower prices across cattle and sheep. Slaughter cows and stockers mostly down, hogs steady to firm with top at 69.00 for 170–180 lb pigs. Sheep trade steady to higher on lambs and yearlings, with several loads of feeder yearlings sold.
Market recap from Kansas City shows cattle and hog receipts with mixed, mostly steady prices. Hogs top around 50.16 per 200 pounds. cattle and calves see varied week declines across weight classes. sheep none reported. week figures show lambs 2.50 to 4.00 lower, other sheep and lambs mostly steady to lower. Also includes New York Clearing House weekly financials with total surplus, deposits, and clearings for the period.
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