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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
6
A historic Waterloo Evening Courier notice describes want ads terms and pricing. It emphasizes per word rates with a 35 cent minimum and formatting rules for display, stressing the newspaper as a local exchange center for all classes of citizens.
A garbled page offers numerous classified style notices: cards of thanks, lodge notices, announcements on music lessons by graduates, lower shoe prices, moving to California shipments, second hand goods, a missing item reward, and a Westminster Presbyterian prayer meeting report with a mention of an acid test event. Includes addresses and contact hints amid ad like lines.
A cluttered page lists many employment notices including Want ads for female help light work, stenographers, waitresses, janitors, and general labor. It mentions wages, hours, locations like Waterloo, Des Moines area, and multiple firms seeking workers, with scattered housing and rent notes among listings.
Numerous used cars trucks and parts advertised including Ford models Maxwell Studebaker and Dodge. Listings show prices and contact numbers with open evenings, plus a Waterloo court notice and a corporation formation filing for Iowa Finance and Investment Corporation outlining loan and investment business.
Public notices show an Iowa corporation detail with stock division and governance terms, including authorized capital and director structure. The page also lists multiple real estate ads and personal notices across town, with properties for sale and rent and various services.
Prices for corn rose after an initial drop as better weather and crop reports improved conditions. Government figures showed a slight gain, while hogs tumbled to weaken corn, and oats moved with mixed signals amid brisk demand and seaborne shipments. Provisions gained on strong meat and lard shipments despite hog weakness.
Hogs bring 25 to 50 cents under Wednesday quotes while cattle tone remains firm. Receipts: hogs 26,000. cattle 13,000. Be timid notes on beef steers, veal calves, and feeder cattle with price ranges and allocations across grades. Also includes extended steel industry excerpt and property transfer notices.
Market notes show varied prices across commodities in New York Chicago and Kansas City. Butter eggs and dairy receipts shift with early stock gains while livestock in Omaha St. Joseph and Peoria trade with mixed strength and outlooks.
Washington DC notices a National Geographic Society bulletin on the making of steel from OMNIS 1 vation by William Joseph Showalter. It recounts the Bessemer process credit dispute between Kelly and Bessemer, detailing early furnace trials and air blast refinements that yielded the first Bessemer steel and its vast output.
A 50 acre farm, as the owner relocates to South Dakota, will be sold to the highest bidder. The property lies 534 miles northwest of Independence, north of Otterville, on the described route.
Sale at 2 30 oclock on Saturday October 4 1919 describes a 45 acre tillable farm with 3 acre timber pasture a 6 room one and a half story house good barn hay fork granary bog house chicken house machine shed wood house 450 tree orchard fenced cross fenced good well near church and school. Terms include 35750 dollars with 39 percent interest financed and 1000 dollars down with balance due March 1 1920 deed and abstract to be given.
Kansas city cattle and sheep market results show receipts around 7 000 cattle and 13 000 sheep with varied grades and prices. Prices range from heavy steer bids at 16.85 to 19.00 for top grades, cows around 5.00 to 12.00, and lambs from 12.00 to 16.00 with yearlings and wethers near 8.00 to 10.00. East St Louis reports receipts of 3 500 cattle and 800 sheep with similar ranges and lighter weights trading around 8.00 to 17.00.
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