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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1919
Page
4
The Waterloo Evening Courier explains want ads pricing and format with one cent per word, a three word minimum of 25 cents, and 6 cent line rates in light caps. The department is a community institution, serving all citizens for buying selling and exchanging items of any value.
Announcements list dues payments with deadlines and address changes for the lodge office. Includes contact numbers and new office room, plus a series of lost and found, wanted help, and miscellaneous notices for jobs, homes, and personal ads across various local listings.
Multiple rental notices list rooms and houses for rent across Lafayette Street Denver Street and nearby avenues. Advertised prices range from $10 to $35 monthly with options including furnished, unfurnished, and winter-month housing. Phone contacts and box numbers are given for leads.
For sale real estate and storage business items include 80 acre transfer plot and storage, various houses and equipment, mixed offers from multiple listings. Includes real estate parcels, furniture and machinery, storage capacity, and company contact for arrangements.
The Tribune reports Dr. Joseph M. Levy told an international convention of women physicians at a YWCA meeting that dentistry should be made a branch of medicine. He criticized infection control and the practice of unnecessary extractions, urging reform and greater physician oversight.
Reported assorted prices for butter eggs cheese and poultry with market notes from Chicago Kansas City and St. Louis. Butter steady to firmer. eggs unchanged. poultry steady with hen and turkey values listed. Sugar and silver prices also noted with regional market context.
The Chicago market Friday saw corn advance sharply on bullish sentiment and broad buying. Delays in movement and strength in hog prices and stocks supported gains, with December and May futures rising to near 1 percent highs. Short covering and light country offerings fueled the rally, though weather fears and late-day profit taking trimmed some gains. Provisions rose in step with grain, while jittery January positions and stockyard bids steadied near session highs.
Chicago market news shows hog receipts at 22 000 with mixed bids. Hogs top at 15.25 with various lots traded around 14.50 to 16.10. Cattle receipts near 2 900 weak with steers and heifers priced from 10.50 to 16.76. Sheep receipts 47 000 with lambs around 12 to 14.50 and ewes to 8.00.
Looming cattle and hog price listings from East St. Louis and Omaha and Kansas City markets on Nov 3 show receipts in the thousands. Beef steers, cows, veal, and packing sows move at varied, widely cited ranges with primes up to 18.25 and hodgepodge figures for sheep and lambs across multiple regional market notes.
Sioux City Iowa reports mixed hog receipts at 2 800 with prices near 14 50 to 14 78 for light hogs and 14 00 for bulk sales. Cattle receipts total 11 000 with lower beef steers 11 50 to 17 00 and grass cattle around 7 00 to 11 50. fat cows and heifers 8 50 to 12 04. sheep receipts 6 000 holding steady.
New York opening shows steels equipment and petroleum leading gains with active industrials such as Lackawanna Republic Bethlehem Midvale United States Steels Great Northern Ore Baldwin Locomotive Central Leather. Oils include Texas Company Mexican Petroleum Sinclair Midstates. Rubber and tires in demand with Industrial Alcohol and American Woolen strongest among specialties as nearly 500000 shares change hands. Rails weak. closing remains strong.
New York pricing shows 2 percent liberty bonds with varied yields and maturities. First 4s quoted at 0, second 4s at 05.00, third 4s around 95.14, fourth 4s near 99.42, victory bonds listed at 95.40 as the market moved.
New York Mercantile paper reports mixed finance data with irregular government and railroad bond activity. Time loans show strength across 60 days 8 days and month while call money closes at bid 6 and 6 1/4 percent.
Market brief noting varied cotton and textile prices with daily arrivals. References to futures and spot values for Western whites and bulk commodities, with specific December to July price points and correspondence from New York on cotton sutures.
Having decided to quit farming the owner will hold an auction at 10 a m on the Peter Benn farm four miles north of Hudson on the Cedar Falls and Hudson road or five miles southwest of Cedar Falls or three miles south of the Iowa State Teachers College or two miles south to Shoo Fly Road and miles west and one mile south from Waterloo. The estate describes eleven head of horses including a bay team four and six years old and two mares ten years old along with a sorrel gelding five years old a small black mare three years old and several young horses and ponies.
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