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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1921
Page
6
Waterloo evening paper lists want ad rates and sample notices including Lost items and job inquiries. Numerous entries show positions for salesmen city work carpenters and housekeepers plus notes on placement agencies and delivery of goods.
Classified text shows multiple terse notices seeking agents for car insurance and liability protection, and various employment leads. Entries include names, addresses, and brief job or sales postings across several urban areas, mixed with fragmented phrases and lines.
Classified lines note a meat cutter position sought by a man with twenty years experience, plus listings for painting, paperhanging, tinting, sewing machine repair, furnace work, and various rental ads. Address linked to Cedar Falls Iowa and Ada others. numerous phone numbers and tradesmen advertise services.
A jumble of rental notices and sales offers appears from Waterloo Iowa listing rooms garages farms furniture and second hand goods. Items include four room house rentals in Conger Street and Mohawk Street, a private entrance five room flat, weekly room rentals with hot water and telephones, a business building for rent on West 4th Street, and numerous sale ads for furniture stoves coal and farm tools.
Marble Rock Iowa notices report Folkart Room resident dies after long illness with widow Maggie Gardiner and two sons William and Clifton surviving. Funeral at M E church with Rev Dwelle, Hillside Cemetery interment. Also brief items about A H Walstein aeromotor mill, Barrs wintering in California, Mrs Tio-Crabtres Smith visiting North English, Isaac Stead death in Georgia, Vera Marten planning California, M E church picnic in Legion hall, Henry Smith visit to Waterloo, and Mrs Nora Graves moving to Reed Horr residence.
Iake Ia report notes prelims for the declamatory contest at the high school auditorium. Local events include entertainment by Bi Marr Bonn and visitors: Mrs Jim Sevenson and children plan a Monday visit to Charles City. Several residents move or travel, with updates on farming, visits to Waterloo Denmark and California, and Dr Culp's lecture Friday night.
Mrs Ida Co returns from funeral duties for WW Davis as friends from Buchanan and Black Hawk counties attend. Two nurses wed in Fairbank Lutheran parsonage. A Wentworth high school principal’s relatives visit. Fairbank public school closes for Thanksgiving with teachers heading home. Sherman Bond sells farm near town and moves to Oelwein. B A Weibel home released from quarantine after scarlet fever. Gale Youngman visits from Tama to spend weekend with local families.
Mrs Lew Stoner and son Harold visited Mrs Stoner in Fort Dodge. Rev Mr Kranger preached in Dubuque college. Mrs Newton Dithi and son Ted visited Des Moines relatives. Vera Decker from New Hampton visiting sister Mrs Walter Brown. Albert Passmore family returned to Hanna City after a week with his parents. Fifty relatives gathered Nov 7 for Mrs Rebecca McGlaughlin's 90th birthday. Granddaughters baked a 26 egg angel food cake. 121 descendants and 121 chrysanthemums noted. an uncle lived to 114, another sister is 5 years old.
Washburn, NA. EB. Brown, suffering from a blood poisoning, received unexpected aid as friends and neighbors from Waterton and nearby Verton township gathered to help him. Anna Blewer of Waterton spent Sunday with her parents, Mr and Mrs.
The La Porte City bazar and supper at the Woman's Relief Corps hall drew visitors from Waterloo and Cedar Falls including Civil War veterans. Mrs. Inez Glime hosted a D A R gathering in Vinton with a Turkish dinner and a program on colonial Puritan history. Local clubs and residents shared news of meetings, travel, illnesses, and Thanksgiving preparations.
Mro and Mrs. Lemuel Fike visit daughter Mrs Collin Hartzell in Mount Morris OL. The Literary society plans a Friday program with Stuart Hamer and Miss Doolittle attending the Teachers association in Des Moines. John Heckman of Mt Morris II called on Orange residents last week. The lyceum second number is set for Nov 26. W CT meeting at Mrs A B Zuelk's home with a vocal duet by Mrs EB Snavely and papers on Frances Willard Life and the Benedict Home by Mrs William Bridge and Mrs Stuart Homer. Guests included Mrs A A Bontrager, Mrs Landis, Miss Rita Bagnes, and Miss Hildebrand from Waterloo. Mrs Clark Wagner, visiting Orange and Waterloo, heads to Monticello Minn then Saskatchewan. Mrs A B Miller leaves for Monticello Minn after weeks in Orange. Thanksgiving services to be held at Orn church in the evening.
Local item: Mrs Bess Roming and Mr Waronwey married. Emma Snisht to Detroit for winter with her son John. Clare Hawley visiting Cedar Rapids. Hilton family in Brandon. Rome talent play a capacity house. Joe Remington and Jesse ship carloads of fine-earth. Various visits to Center Point incl Mrs Alice Hunter and Mrs Ethel Ferguson. Miss Tessie Baker teaches grades one and six with hand poisoning. Mrs Eliza Shaffer visiting Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids. Urbana residents visiting Shaffer family.
Shell Rock Iowa records show Miss Tda Hartwig daughter of Mr and Mrs Hartwig will graduate from the University of Iowa nurses training school Saturday among 204 students she was chosen for supervisor at the hospital. Hartwig previously attended Shell Rock High School and taught briefly before entering UC nurses training.
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