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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1920
Page
5
Classifieds from Waterloo listing workers and housing options, including waitresses, maids, chambermaids, floral help, and general housework, alongside numerous real estate for sale and rent ads for homes, rooms, and apartments in Waterloo and nearby areas. The page also shows business listings, job ads, and local notices with names, addresses, and contact numbers.
KP Knoxville market summary notes butter at 52 60e and eggs steady with receipts of 10,951 cases. Poultry prices show hens and springs near 21 and 24 cents. Butter Creamery and Hudson butter cited at 58c. Potatoes and other commodities listed with Minnesota Wisconsin Early Chicago and Waterloo market figures. Includes cattle, hogs, and hides pricing segments with assorted grades and sale terms.
Chicago Oct 12 cattle receipts 15000 market very slow open log pales choice steers steady medium and common easier early top 315 98 bulk good and choice 19 50 17 85 grassy kind dull tender lower veal calves 25 59 lower stockers shade easier receipts westerns packing sales 1400 14 29 pig stead. Sheep receipts 29000 fat lambs slow no early sales of choice lambs best western held at 13 40 medium 11 29 12 25 fat sheep steady walk native ewes 5 target feeders 7 73 top feeder lambs 12 50.
Local items report visits by Art Smiths tiling Tor George Well s Lorena and Emma Meter at Freeport, and Mr and Mrs Tout Keane at Omaha with daughter Mamie. Events include road work, a vote on reducing the board of supervisors, and election plans. Obits mention Mrs Isadore Michael at 75, with funeral at Baptist church.
Kansas City Missouri October 12 cattle receipts about 2000 with prices for prime steers at 17.50 and grassers 9.00 to 10.75. fed cows and heifers 9.90. hogs receipts 10000 with prices topping 35.00 and packing hogs 14.25 to 15.00. sheep receipts 000 with western ewes 4.75 and fat lambs up to 25.50, western yearlings around 3.00, western lambs 12.50 and native lambs around 21.40
Receipts at Biook City market show cattle weak demand with Ted steers and yearlings at about 10.00 to 14.00, grass steers around 6.00 to 8.00, fat cows and feeders about 3.75 to 7.00, and mixed lots reflecting light turnover. Sheep receipts are listed but details incomplete.
Receipts show 1,000 cattle with bulk medium and light butchers at 14.00 to 14.35 and 112.75 for packing grades. 1,000 cattle including steers priced around 22.15 for Western beets and stocker types. Sheep receipts reach 24,000 with high prime Western lambs around 12.35 to 12.50 for feeders, and stock lambs showing uneven gains."}
East St. Louis livestock market reports mixed receipts with cattle and calves showing steady to firm prices. Feeder calves around 15.75 to 16.50 per hundredweight, bulk receipts noted, market conditions described as steady amid moderate demand.
Gilbertville and Plainfield items report visits from Chicago and Waterloo relatives, with Rev. Father Frenis in Rochester for several days. Lawrence Schmitz had tonsils removed at St. Francis Hospital in Waterfoo last Saturday. Mrs Benton Satterlee and daughter Margaret left Plainfield on October 12.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad received a reported 30 million dollars in full compromise settlement with the United States railroad administration for the period it operated under federal control. The deal clears 11.5 million of war finance corporation paper and 4 million of New York bank debt. President EH L Byran called the settlement satisfactory.
Foreign delegates at the International Postal congress in Madrid fled Sunday bull fights as scenes proved harrowing. Many left once the fights began and did not stay for the conclusion. In Chicago, Charles Chick Evans III suspended golf due to illness, likely ending his season this year.
Real estate and public sales offered by F H Seger Auctioneer with satisfaction guaranteed. Contact at East Fourth Street office, phone 2500 or Red 5043 for details on property and public auctions.
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