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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1914
Page
8
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter promotes its Want Advertising Department as a community market for all citizens to exchange items of any value. Ads now cost one cent per word with a minimum 15 cent charge. Contact W A Chartman Company at 5830.
Multiple listings for furnished rooms and suites in town. Includes modern single rooms close in, private family preferences, housekeeping services, and options for one or two gentlemen. Some ads specify steam heat, private baths, and light housekeeping. several note no children and proximity to streets and avenues.
Classified listings show multiple help wanted notes from individuals seeking work. Items include a packing house role, farm milker, barber student program, general housework, cook and housekeeper positions, safe purchase, and various odd jobs with contact details and pay offers.
A dense list of rental offers and miscellaneous sales from a historical paper fragment. Items include multiple houses for rent on West Side streets, modern 7 room homes, rooms, furnished and unfurnished options, and contact numbers. Also includes a long list of miscellaneous sales such as pianos, sewing machines, furniture, and vehicles with prices and locations.
Multiple real estate ads for large acreage and farms in Mason, Manistee, Lake and Wexford counties, with prices from 10 to 25 dollars per acre on seven year terms. Also notices of wills and bankruptcies in Black Hawk and surrounding counties, including hearing dates and executor appointments in Waterloo and Gilbertville.
Notices of probate and administration proceedings in Black Hawk County Iowa from 1914. Details include estate of Frederika Kistner and estate of Richard W Huggins. Requests for payment by debtors and proof of claims, with dates and clerk signatures.
Wheat and corn price listings across Chicago and regional exchanges. Includes futures, spot bids, and varying grades for No 2 red wheat, No 2 yellow corn, and related grains. Also lists dairy, butter, eggs, poultry, hay, cattle, hogs, hides, and veal prices with regional references to Duluth St Louis Minneapolis and Winnipeg markets.
Markets showed slight strength with higher cables but failed to sustain gains. In Chicago futures trading a modest rally followed an opening up then faded to near the prior night’s level. South Omaha live stock receipts include 2000 cattle 9300 hogs and 1000 sheep with cattle and calves strong early and hogs trending lower.
Waverly stockyard receipts for October 8 show hogs 16,000, cattle 5,000, sheep 0. tomorrow’s receipts include hogs 12,000 cattle 2,000 sheep 15,000. Market reports from Chicago note hogs weak to steady, cattle steady, and sheep strong. local notices report residents visiting, resignations, and social events in Waverly, with community updates and arrivals.
Transfer Co offers rapid and economical hauling of all kinds with saw and heavy machinery. Light work receives special attention. We are splendidly equipped for this important work. Call BYVANK TRANSFER CO.
A rheumatism patient wanders with crutches while Mrs Schmidt and sister visit Charles City after thirty years. Wil Homan breaks kneecap at Waverly bottling works and is hospitalized. Mrs Hunt Sager and Chaffee return from Hampton Womans club meet. John Madden and W C Michelson visit on business. Rev. C Ide dies in Fifth ward after eighteen years in Waverly. funeral Friday at 2 PM from his home and burial in Harlington with sermon at St Pauls Lutheran Church.
Time table snippet lists south bound leaves for Union depot Des Moines Kee and Des M routes with 3:10 am 3:25 am 8:00 am 8:08 am 3:00 pm 1:10 pm 7:45 pm 7:53 pm and north bound leaves for Union depot Twin Cities Chicago and Oelwein with times 11:25 am 11:43 am 9:48 pm 6:58 pm 11:49 pm 11:67 pm noting East side and Union depot references.
Train times and routes show Cedar Falls to Waterloo service with multiple daily departures via Galloway Mulberry and west side. Running time is about 35 minutes with limited daily trains to Waterloo and Cedar Rapids and connections to Urbana, Center Point and Denver.
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