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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1918
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter explains its want ad rates and formats. It notes a minimum 25 cent daily charge, per word pricing, and formatting rules for Want, For Sale, and similar listings to maintain descriptive ads and support newspaper operations.
Classified rental notices describe multiple houses for rent and sale phrases. Listings include a fully furnished west side house, a partly modern eight room home at 209 East Ninth, seven room oak finished house at 53a Utica Street, a four room house with end garage at 700 West Eleventh, a five room partly modern house with garden at 343 Independence Avenue, and a partially modern seven room home details plus contact numbers Black 2240 Black 2363 and phone 251 details. Several offer interiors newly papered and painted with monthly rent of 12 dollars.
Multiple rental notices list furnished and unfurnished rooms and small flats for rent. Locations include Fourth Street West Side downtown and Webster, East Seventh and Eighth Streets. References and phone numbers 80 and Red 2305 appear. heat, water, and modern conveniences offered with near city amenities.
Card notices announce a Lincoln Circle business meeting at 3 p m on Wednesday at the home of Mrs W Giffen 1245 South Street officers and members urged to attend The note expresses gratitude to friends neighbors and especially Chamberlain Machine Works employees for kindness and floral offerings during a bereavement for husband son and brother signed by Mrs A W Chapman Mr and Mrs W B Chapman Mrs A H Bickley J B and B Chapman Rent miscellaneous listing a storefront for rent on Bridge Street by J J Miller
Real Estate notice offers sale of 220 acre Michigan farm on inland lake with half mile lake frontage near a resort town. Includes two main BR crossings, sixty cultivated acres, good soil, fence, drainage, small house, trees. Non-resident owner seeks buyers, price 20 per acre, terms possibly Liberty Bonds. Flowers, Courier and Reporter care.
Mixed classified notice lists 474 acres of rich clay loam land with improvements and outbuildings, plus livestock including horses, cows, and a Guernsey bull. Also advertised are a clothing store inventory, a house moving contractor, farm implements, and a plan to sacrifice everything for quick sale near Shell Lake, Wisconsin. Includes contact notes and reward offers for various notices.
A crowded compile of help wanted and sale notices. Includes male and female roles such as teamsters, soda fountain staff, salesmen, solicitors, housekeepers, dishwashers, and miscellaneous out-of-town work. Also lists various sale items from stoves and chairs to livestock, pianos, and farm stock with contact details and short terms.
A jumbled list of late ads offering furniture, stoves, coal, vehicles, and rooms. Items include a 54 inch dining table set, white enamel gas range, oak bed, two autos and a roadster, upright concert grand piano, and a 1915 Ford Roadster. Also notices for a salesman, laundry work, and room rentals at various local addresses and phone numbers.
Congress moves to elevate the Grand Canyon from federal lands and monuments to a national park. A Senate bill would dedicate about 600,000 acres in northern Arizona, enabling road, trail, hotel, and camping development. Officials note decades of consideration, minimal private land, and broad public support for formal park status.
Clarksville and Fairbank report ongoing influenza and pneumonia cases. Funeral and church services accompany deaths of local residents including Harry Ged and Strandward Ford. Community events feature a Halloween party at the Pitcher home and various visits, illnesses, and road accident notes involving residents and families.
Ed Nesbit reports the biggest garden prize in the township and state with corn ears weighing three pounds and a pumpkin weighing six pounds. Matt Ortner samples corn for Joe Avinar in the same event.
Roy Welch Lew Pinkerton and families from Waterloo visited relatives in Dunkerton and Frederika. Schools opened with 390+ cases and three deaths from the illness reported. Miss Leola Golding will return to Cedar Rapids to resume studies at Coe College. Community events include masquerade party at Gladis Holdiman’s and a missionary meeting at the Baptist church led by Mrs Sewsorne. New minister Rev K Eldow and family moved from Plainfield. Dr Ed Williams attended St Joseph and other local notes. Infant accident at Carl Brase home injures eye. he dies later at Mercy hospital Waverly.
Nov 4 HUDSON Plainfield reports flu victims Clarence Potter and family F G Moats and Miss Blaseha Gritzner. Visitors arrive from Michigan and Minneapolis while families plan trips to Seattle Delta Ackley. Hudson lifts influenza quarantine Nov 5 reopening barber shops and pool halls and resuming church services and schools. Local baptisms and a cornet bet on corn husking draw mention.
Marble Rock reports several private furloughs from Fort Riley and Al bta for service members including Wilson Ward and other locals visiting relatives. Betsy Witter relocates to De Kalb and the Segauhr family travels to Camp Dodge for a few days. School superintendent Evaretts and wife resign from public schools for new positions near Stanwood. Local residents Mr and Mrs John Clay take possession of the Geo Sharp residence north of town after purchasing it.
Nov 4 items from Rockford report Miss Helen Howard moving to Glen Flora Wisconsin to pursue track work. Mrs. Guy Holland ill with influenza. Henry Richimeyed becomes parent of a boy. Vern Sinecker injures arm. A Register man travels to Chicago for assignment. Miss Caroling Xeteboom awaits New York call. Primer las nurse's aid and quarantine notices appear. local quarantine for smallpox reported.
In St Ansgar on November 5 Lewis Albertson left for St Paul to join the Marines and proceed to Paris Island. Miss Dora Wilkinson left for Clarksville with her sister Mrs KR C Mueller. Nurse Ruth Tollefsen has gone to New Mexico as a Red Cross nurse. Janet Rowland and Ora Conrad were married at 8 pm with Rev Mec Galbreth officiating. The couple will begin housekeeping on a nearby farm. Also notes on ingenuity and small screw manufacturing methods in Kansas.
Olive seeks work after her father's death and secures a position with Miss Madison. Years of travel with her employer end when Olive learns of a fortune left to her by Ted Lawrence. Ralph Madison proposes as Olive contemplates leaving to join him as his sister's companion.
Nov. 4 report from Greene notes the council decided to reopen school Monday. Several residents mentioned influenza cases, furloughs, and visits, with local families visiting relatives. Several individuals are mentioned in passing, including military and civilian names, while farm market chatter runs alongside.
Transfer and Storage offers piano storage and household goods moving with clean, dry facilities. Parson’s Storage Dept advertises cut rates to the Pacific coast and other points from a Minneapolis base. Boyd Transfer Co touts superior service in Minneapolis with fireproof storage and packing. Iowa Warehouse Co shares Waterloo location and fireproof warehouse services with special handling of household goods and merchandise.
Chicago market report shows hogs a dime higher than Monday with receipts about 40,000. Prices for hogs range from 17.25 to 18.50 for various cuts, with throws and packers cited. Cattle receipts around 22,080 with cattle generally steady or down 25 cents on some classes, calves up to 25 cents, and beef, butcher, and stocker prices listed. Sheep receipts 20,000 with fat lambs and yearlings down slightly, sheep and feeders mostly steady.
Omaha livestock receipts totaled several thousand with declines in some heavy cattle and calf categories. Native steers brought 11.00 to 18.00, cows 6.50 to 21.50, calves around 5.00, while sheep showed steady to mixed prices with wethers near 10.00 to 12.00 and lambs from 13.00 to 18.60. Feeder cattle and yearlings traded in the 10.25 to 14.75 range, with activity noted across the market.
Kansas City and St Louis livestock markets show mixed receipts and varying quotes. Hogs cattle and sheep across multiple markets report declines or steady pricing, with bulky ranges listed for each category and region, including riders for local freight and schedules.
Railway timetables list east bound and west bound departures from Illinois Central routes. Notes include a Dubuque Local, Chicago Fort Dodge Omaha line, Albert Lea Johnson City passages, and multiple stops such as Des Moines Kansas City and Oelwein with assorted times. The fragment cites daily patterns and limited service across the endpoints.
Waterloo markets list assorted commodities and prices for November 5 including flour barley rye corn meal and various cattle hogs and dairy items. Items feature price ranges for butter lard potatoes hay and other market staples without clear per unit details.
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