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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1918
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier outlines want ad rates and policy changes. It argues minimum charges, word pricing, and the need for well written ads to serve as a marketplace for all citizens, large or small.
We thank friends neighbors and the Waterloo Laundry Co for kindness and floral offerings at the death and burial of our father The Poffenberger Children. We thank friends for assistance during illness and floral tributes at the funeral Our heartfelt thanks Fremont Austin O L Austin and Wife Dale Austin J W Lamb and Wamity Court of Honor Lodge 331 will hold regular meeting and installation followed by a program and dancing Thursday at Labor temple All members urged to attend.
Announcement urges patriotic thrift by remodeling old clothing into modern styles and offers fur remodeling services. H. Davis is named as exclusive ladies' tailor at 517 La Fayette. Includes a call to save cloth and serve fashion needs.
Classifieds list multiple job ads including clerical work at Iowa Telephone Co and Des Moines firms, factory positions at Chamberlain Machine Works, sales roles with travel to rural areas, and machine shop needs. Notable listings include toolmakers at $5 to $3 per day, sales managers, bookkeepers, and light factory workers.
Real estate ads describe cheap two full lots near a car line and a Dawson street cottage to be sacrificed for quick sale. Also offered is a 184 acre stock and grain farm in western Michigan twenty miles east of Renton Harbor priced at 14000 with 5000 cash and easy payments. Additional listings include Michigan hardwood lands up to 40000 acres for farming dairy poultry and fruiting with low monthly terms.
Reports from Oct 7 1918 describe Wilson's drafting of a reply to German peace proposals while allied leaders reiterate nonnegotiable terms. Chicago plans unconditional surrender celebrations echoing anti‑peace sentiment. German, Italian, and Dutch papers debate diplomacy, victory demands, and the role of Wilson as world arbiter.
Spanish influenza hits Garrison Benton county with 500 residents as four or five Wenner family members fall ill and Mrs. Donald battles pneumonia. Detention hospital to be renovated for isolated patients while city hospitals prepare separate wards. City clerk orders quarantine cards to be posted as authorities authorize action later today.
Zurich dispatch notes Lokal Anzeiger Berlin stating two Wilson points rejected tied to Alsace-Lorraine separation from Germany and transfer of Russian Poland to independent Poland. Fairbank and related oblique references appear in the report from Copenhagen dated Oct 7. Wedding notes follow with Laura Dvan Blellixer wed to William Wesley Seamens at the Nourse home. various local residents and travels mentioned through Fairbank, Pa irbank and surrounding towns.
Hazel McConkey left for Ames College leaving Mrs. O L Farrand with her mother. Emma Eggleson visited from Colorado Springs and joined by granddaughter Emma Wond before moving to Minneapolis. Mrs. Wood teaches near Dunkerton. Reimer ill with pneumonia at a New Jersey camp. Blanche Munger studies at Madison Wisconsin. Mrs. Rose Webster learns of husband’s illness at Camp Pike. Miss Mabel Baumgartner sick in Fredericksburg where she teaches. her sister Sylvia and father Albert visit. Mrs Otto Ludwik returns from Minneapolis for rheumatism treatment. Dean Beckner marries Anna Madsen at Waterloo. draft status noted. Mrs Willard of Fiandrean travels with Ethel and Marie from Austin to visit. mother-in-law Mrs James Willard accompanies to Aberdeen. Mrs YL Reynolds visits Riceville to see daughter.
Chicago Oct. hog receipts 24,000 with prices 18.00 to 18.55 for hogs and 16.00 to 17.00 for pigs. Cattle receipts 23,000 with steers steady to lower and westerns stronger. calves, cows, and heifers mixed. Oats rise with corn. provisions weak as pork and ribs drop. range beef steers around 14.00 and fat lambs strengthening amid broader feeder demand.
Boston to New York markets show firmer undertone as war news lifts short covering. U.S. Steel gains on war shares. Marine preferred leads with large buy orders. Rail and utility stocks mixed. Kansas City grain prices and Omaha hogs general activity noted. obliquely, Liberty bond prices close firm. Obituary of Mary Anne Wedge recorded in Winthrop.
Kansas City market receipts show hogs 17,000 head with prices mainly 17.60 to 18.40 for bulk sold to packers. lights 17.50 to 18.30. sows 16.00 to 17.56. Cattle receipts 26,000 with steers 17.50 to 19.00. cows and heifers 7.00 to 17.00. calves around 6.0. Sheep receipts 31,000 with yearlings 16.00 to 12.00. wethers 9.0 to 8.50. ewes 9.00 to 10.00. stockers and feeders about 6.00.
A fragmentary obituary notes a young mother who left her daughter to be raised by relatives in Chicago. It recalls her long efforts for her children’s education, her marriage to George A Sinnesate, and the family’s moves between farms in Wisconsin and Iowa. She died October 1 in her late 20s or early 30s, with services at a Methodist church and burial in Fairview Cemetery.
Mt Vernon township reports from Oct show Herbert Jordan writing from France that he landed in England then continued to cotton country. notices of illness influenza and deaths, including Earl Bowen, and school closures in Nos 4 and 9 due to illness. local social tidbits involve Cedar Falls students, families, and visiting relatives, with brief references to local births and a funeral.
Waterloo markets detail varied prices for flour barley rye oats corn and dairy goods. Listings include livestock cattle calves hay straw butter lard potatoes poultry and hides with wholesale and retail price notes and date October 8 1918. The fragment shows broad regional price activity across markets in Marble Rock Waterloo and St Louis with mixed candy for sugar and grain items.
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