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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1919
Page
6
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter advertise low rates for want ads in light and black type. Ads priced by word per insertion with a minimum, offering a central marketplace for all citizens to buy sell or exchange items of any value.
A collage of small ads and notices from a local paper includes help wanted listings for clerks, waitresses, maids, teamsters, and other labor roles, plus bakery and hotel workers. Also found are storage battery offers, lost and found items, and several real estate and automotive postings with contact details and addresses.
Chicago trading floors saw corn futures up early as denials of a sweeping railway freight embargo sparked cautious optimism. December delivery edged higher while May extended the rise before closing mixed. Oats and Pats weakened. provisions followed hot market trends. Notice noise and small ads intruded amid market chatter.
An advertisement насыщает with listings of used autos from Campbell Motor Car Co and various resale items in Waterloo Iowa. It includes multiple vehicles like 1915 Studebaker, 1918 Maxwell, 1912 Hudson, 1914 Cartercar, 1917 Ford, and farm trucks, plus a public notice of incorporation for Waterloo Auditorium and Holding Company and other local sales and items.
The report compiles dairy and poultry prices from New York Chicago Waterloo and Kansas City with butter firm at creamery levels and higher extras, eggs at firm to extra firsts, cheese steady with various state milks, and live poultry quiet or unchanged. Also notes Turkey and chicken prices, with regional receipts and market conditions in brief.
New York November 19 liquidation of high priced specialties resumes at market open. Losses spread across GM and Mexican Petroleum as early declines echo through the session. Prices for Liberty bonds shown. various animal product and farm item quotes noted amid overall unsettled conditions.
Lost Tuesday evening on Red Ball road between Shell Rock and Waterloo or in Waterloo area. Includes tan leather bill book with $308 Liberty bonds five or six $5 thrift stamps two checks and other papers. Finder return to Black Hawk Coffee & Spice Co. EB Draper offers reward. Also real estate ads for 160 acres near Waterloo at 245 per acre with March possession and terms, six room house near factories, and a fine home on west side. Also items for sale such as popcorn and a Winchester rifle wanted. Contact details included.
Chicago Nov 18 HOGS receipts 124000 early trade steady but marker weakens. Prices range from 14.23 to 14.80 for various hog categories. heavy and packing sow values noted. CATTLE receipts 19000 show weakness with beef steer bids 10.60 to 18.09. veal calves 19.25 to 18.25. feeders and stockers present. SHEEP receipts 22000 with lambs 12.50 to 14.86. ewes 7.00 to 8.33. breeding stock 6.50 to 11.50.
Receipts in the Kansas City market show cattle at 21 500 steady with heavy beef steers reaching 17.00 to 18.60 and veal calves up to 17.00. Hogs around 323.25 to 14.00, packing weights near 14.00, and sheep receipts about 4 000 with lambs 12.50 to 15.00 and yearling wethers up to 11.75.
East St Louis market totals show hogs receipts at 16 000 with prices from 14 25 to 16 10 and heavy sows to 13 75, pigs around 14 5. Cattle receipts 6 500 with beef steer quotes up to 19 20 and butcher cows to 12 00, veal calves 14 50 17 00. Sheep at 7 000 with lambs 12 40 14 50 and ewes to 7 50.
Receipts reach 7.00 to 14.65 for hogs with top around 14.65 and 14.66. packing sows rough at 14.10 to 14.50. cattle receipts 11,000 steady with beef steers at 16.25 to 18.25, veal calves 6.25 to 25.00. sheep and lambs mixed with lambs notes 18.00 to 14.50 and ewes 7.00 to 7.45. Sioux City market reports show hogs 13.50 to 14.50, cattle 10.50 to 17.90, sheep 4.50 to 7.45.
New York market notes show mercantile pass rates at 5 percent, sterling daily bids around 7 percent, with government and railroad bonds steady. Transportation schedules include Cedar Rapids and Waterloo rail timetables with multiple daily departures, connections to Chicago, Omaha, and Minneapolis, plus detailed local line timings and arrival windows.
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