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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1919
Page
6
In the Waterning Couri Waterloo Meads Courier notice the Want Ad section explains rates at one cent per word with a 25 cent minimum, plus formatting rules like all caps lines and dash lines. It positions want advertising as a market place for all citizens to buy sell or exchange items of any value, large or small.
A chaotic OCR of classifieds shows multiple “Wanted” notices for work, housing, piano tuning, paper items, and goods. Entries include requests for a married man seeking work, modern furnished homes, apartment rentals, screen work, and buying items from a secondhand dealer. Several phone numbers and street addresses appear throughout.
A collage of real estate ads and used goods listings from Buver i County Iowa to Winona Minnesota and beyond. Highlights include dairy or farm properties, timber and soil notes, tax and loan offers, and household items like furniture phonographs and rugs.
Mixed in with local notices and a Waterloo street resurfacing schedule, a Chicago report details a trunk shipment to Vinton containing forty to fifty bottles of whisky bound for Chester Wynnegar. Police seized the gain amid a federal hearing, with Wynnegar, a blind man, claiming the liquor was for his wife.
Livestock market roundup shows receipts and price ranges across Kansas City East St. Louis Omaha Sioux City St. Joseph and other markets. Beef steers, cows, veal calves and hogs posted varied trade with lower and higher quotes noted, plus assorted feeder and stocker figures.
New York reports November prices for produce with creamery eggs poultry and potatoes, showing higher creamery milk and variable egg values amid steady live poultry markets. Also listed is a record building permit for a two story brick New York building at Park Avenue valued around 125000 with a 124.25 fee, issued to H A Maite Co.
Waterloo Chapter 128, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold a special initiation meeting Wednesday evening, Nov. 26, at 7 30 at Masonic hall. All visiting members in city are invited to attend. For sale Hupmobile in good condition and willing to trade for a diamond. Call 410 Sunnyside or Red 3980.
New reports from Chicago and other cities describe severe coal shortages with plant closures and curtailment plans. Officials weigh cabinet action and possible use of troops as miners press for a wage settlement amid widespread disruption.
Chicago November 25 Fresh strength in the corn market due to scant country offerings and expected export demand. Receipts were high and arrivals expected to be absorbed by industrial needs. Gossip linked coal strike settlement to broader industrial purchases. December at 1.32% to 1.32% and May 1.27% to 1.27% amid upturn. later corn closed near highs. Oats also firmed on corn strength. Provisions rose overall despite a hog price drop, with big meat shipments and house buying boosting late strength.
Associated Press reports Bulgaria plans large elevators at Varna on the Black Sea to handle a wheat crop estimated as the largest in its history and valued at 260 million dollars. In Middletown New York King Segis Pontiac Alcarta a prize bull valued at 50 900 died after swallowing a nail per veterinarians report.
Chicago sale reports receipts of 76 000 hogs with prices 50 to 75 cents lower. Top hogs brought 13.50 to 18.90, heavy and light categories varied. Cattle receipts 17 000 with mixed values across steers cows and veal calves. Sheep receipts about 2 000 with lambs and ewes priced in the 7 to 14 dollar range. Market notes on mercantile paper and bonds follow.
At the New York opening Nov 25 copper shares were the sole notable advance with general gains in motors oil steel equipment food and shipping amid moderate demand. General Motors and Pierce Arrow led a wider rise while Pennsylvan ia Seaboard Steel Superior Steel and Chicago Great Western boosted. Call loans opened high then cooled but prices remained firm.
Market prices from Waterloo on November 26 1919 show prices for butter potatoes cattle hogs and poultry. Creamery butter values range by type while cattle hogs and calf hides list varying grades and weights.
Washington DC reports the Democratic national committee and women's associate committee to meet in January to set the date and location for the national convention. London expects the former Emperor William trial to start in early next year, per the Daily Mail. Duluth, Minnesota says Captain W R Neal of the steamer Myron, capsized in Lake Superior, was rescued exhausted by the steamer Franz.
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