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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1919
Page
6
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter describes its want ads policy with rates for various styles and lines. It emphasizes widespread readership and positions the Want Advertising Department as a district institution for buying selling and exchanging items of all values.
A collage of notices and small ads from Waterloo listings. Thanks to neighbors for kindness during illness and death of husband and father. Lodge cards announce a special initiation at Waterloo Chapter No. 128 Eastern Star with 1919 officers and a supper. Various announcements include piano lessons, stage acting classes, dancing instructions, battery repairs, upcoming grocery opening, lost and found items, employment ads, and help wanted across local businesses and hotels.
A jumble of 1920s style want ads seeks a female typist for a few days, a girl to run a bowstitching machine, a maid for general housework with night shifts possible, an office girl for steady work, and a competent maid. Also listings for young women for permanent attic positions and general clerical help with wages noted.
A long list of classified requests including carpenters janitors and assistants jobs misc items for sale and rentals. Entries include a carpenter at 216 Bard a janitor fireman position a two wheeled mochaxto repair and painting services plus requests for bundles washing on crates ladies garments and restored furs. Several rental housing offers and requests for furnished apartments heated housing and rooming with references. Contact details provided for each ad.
Numerous rental offers including furnished front rooms, light housekeeping, and a four room apartment. Also real estate ads seek 4 room house, large modern homes, farms, and land near Waterloo and Webster Wisconsin with detailed terms and contact points.
A dense list of used cars, parts, and related goods is offered. Models include Saxon Six, Ford various years, Nash Six, Buick, Maxwell, Overland, and Studebaker references with prices from $50 to $850. Trade offers, delivery trucks, and repairing services accompany ads. multiple dealers and street addresses are cited.
A mixed sale notice lists items from Arey Lunch fixtures to household goods and furniture. Items include a Kohler piano, oak furniture, a refrigerator, lighting, beds, dressers, a clothes wringer, chickens, and various small goods. Bids or inquiries urged from interested buyers.
Classified snippets show purebred Orpington cockerels and White Wyandotte pullets for sale with contact numbers and a street address. Local storage and transfer firms advertise piano and household goods handling, plus real estate loan offers and property listings with regional company names and phone details.
Chicago trading indexed strong on November 18 as final country offerings and light receipts supported gains in corn. Freight car rush to move wheat, scarce coal, and looming rail embargo fears boosted shorts. May and December contracts rallied while oats firmed after a brief dip. Local ads and listings follow as price shifts and small sales fill the page.
New York November 18 Butter creamery receipts 12 289 tubs firm higher than extras creamery extras 98 score 62 65c packing stock current make No 2 Exgs firm receipts 728 cases fresh gathered extras firsts 7sc firsts 68 7T3c Cheese steady receipts 2768 boxes state whole milk fits current make specials 324 32c state whole milk twins current make specials 13134 possibly ditte average run 3lc Poultry live and dressed turkeys 25 8u dressed steady chickens 26 Sie turkers 40 47c Hansas City reports butter unchanged packing higher under Lege Poultry Unchanged Chicago butter higher 1S ilc receipts 342 cases unchanged
Amethyst once ranked high for color and polish but declined after large Brazilian finds reduced value in Europe. The piece notes famous ancient engravings, Trajan and Antony depictions, and a Paris national library engraving. Also includes a set of market prices for poultry, butter, potatoes, cattle, hogs, and Liberty bonds with a mixed stock market opening.
Chicago hogs drop 10 to 15 cents as receipts reach 38 000 with quality fair to good and mixed demand. Hog top around 14 75 while bulk trades near 14 35 to 14 60. Cattle receipts 30 000 with lower prices across weights. beef, veal and feeder segments show broad price ranges from around 8 75 to 20 50, with cows and bullocks varying in value. Sheep receipts 32 000 with lambs trading 12 50 to 15 00 and common types 6 50 to 9 25.
Kansas City market notes Nov 18 show hog receipts around 14 000 with prices from 14.25 to 14.75 for various classes. Cattle receipts about 7500 with heavy beef steers at 18.75 and mixed grades from 8.50 to 18.40. Sheep receipts 7000 with lambs 12.75 to 15.00 and yearlings 10.00 to 11.75. cows and bulls range 6.00 to 14.00 as listed.
Market reports from Omaha Otane Neu Rev area and East St Louis show hogs and cattle varying with receipts around 6 000 to 18 000 head. Prices span from 14 00 to 18 50 for steers and heifers to 7 26 for ewes and 10 00 to 14 50 for lambs. Other centers Sioux City and St Joseph report similar activity with mixed gains and declines.
Armenia and Greece shared Homeric legacy. Moses of Khorene, wrote in the seventh century, later shown by archaeology to be historical. Semiramis built Van, Dido Carthage, Cyrus toppled Armenia’s era of illiteracy, then Christian influence began to change the land.
John Jacob Astor introduced beaver skin as a medium of exchange, maintaining fixed value for about a century. The shift to rabbit fur hats ended beaver money, while the trapping by Indians and rival traders pushed beaver toward near extinction, aided by deceptive lures from white men.
Joseph Gottschalk was accosted on a Philadelphia street by a stranger who forced a quick dance, then robbed him of his watch and money. The assailant fired two bullets as Gottschalk fled, claiming he ran so fast the bullets missed. Police reported no injuries.
A scrambled OCR rail timetable lists trains among Dubuque, Fort Dodge, Omaha, Sioux City, Minneapolis Saint Paul, Cedar Rapids and Chicago with connections at Waterloo Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. It notes local, limited, and express services, times, depots, and connections, including intercity routes and closing schedules. The fragmentary text preserves train numbers and station pairs, conveying a dense schedule snapshot.
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