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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1919
Page
6
Water loo Evening Courier promotes its want advertising rate of one cent per word with a minimum of twenty five cents. The notice urges readers to submit advertisements for the paper and highlights its central role in the community for notices and classified text.
A jumble of lodge notices and personal thanks from Waterloo. Eastern Star Chapter 328 holds an initiation meeting with refreshments. Cedar Review No 37 plans a dancing party at Munse Hall. a list of announcements includes a potential move to California and a classifieds inquiry about secondhand goods. Names such as M. I. Van Muskirk and others are present alongside calls for help and contact details.
A garbled classified row advertises multiple help wanted positions including female help, telephonist, general housework, and factory tasks. It also shows rental listings and various job notes, with scattered organization names and locations, though much of the text is misspelled and hard to parse.
A dense string of classified notices requests include child care positions and elder care, stenographer, real estate and business opportunities, auto painters, second hand goods, razor blades and tools, stamps and bonds, furniture, hauling, and workshop tasks. Ads mention locations, prices, and contact directions, with many broken phrases and OCR errors.
A dense, mixed real estate page fragment lists for sale and rent items across multiple locales. It includes rooms, houses, farms, and land with various features, prices, and contact hints, noting locations such as Independence and Nevada and mentioning utilities and terms.
A flood of small ads lists secondhand goods including furniture beds boxes pianos stoves and clothing. Listings mention baby bed and mattress electric household articles harness mechanical items and dairy cows with contact details and locations like Cedar Falls Waterloo and Sycamore Street Hardware Co for inquiries or purchases.
Weakened trading followed an early surge in prices as the Ruthong administration data spree and permit system changes reduce railroad movement of grain. December delivery opened around 11 to 15 cents higher before fading. December 1.23 1/4 to 1.23 3/4 and May 1.21 1/2 to 1.21 3/4.
The article notes corn and hog price swings tied to market weakness and oil provisions, with a sharp rally blocked. It also records corporate actions including a dissolution of Horns Drug Company in Waterloo and incorporation of Consumers Stores Company Inc in Waterloo, detailing capital stock, business aims, and corporate governance.
The document outlines meetings of stockholders and board structure, listing Eugene T. VanDyke as president and J. T. Clarke as director. It states maximum indebtedness limits, property protections for members, and the board composition until the next regular election, with VanDyke, Clarke, and others named as directors and officers.
Livestock report shows hogs 50 cents under Monday's prices with cattle steady. Receipts around 19 000 hogs and 14 000 cattle. hogs mostly fair to good, slow, buyers lower. Cattle: medium and heavy weights strong, prices around 17 to 18 dollars for steer types. hog average cost yesterday 24.06. London silver steady at 22 shillings per ounce. lambs and breeding stock described with limited detail.
The horizontally jumbled cattle hog and sheep listings show multiple markets reporting receipts around 11,000 to 17,000 for hogs and cattle with varied price ranges. Notable entries include packers and feeders in East St Louis and Sioux City with weights from heavy to light, prices from about 10 to 19 dollars, and calves or veal at 12 to 17 dollars, plus specific notes on stocker steers and canners. A brief obituary-like note at the end mentions a Brookville dog killed to save its owner during a rattlesnake bite, with the man expected to recover.
Market notes from Chicago and St. Louis report creamery butter trims and eggs with receipts rising to 7 991 cages and 199 cases, while butchers show unchanged prices. Eggs and poultry steady in several markets with occasional minor shifts and packing costs listed.
Stocks and bonds edge up on eased money conditions with General Motors pushing to a new high as other key issues rally in the early trading. Steel, shipping, and equipment sectors advance while some auto makers pull back. profit-taking occurs but gains largely recover on renewed buying. Other notable movers include Stude baker, Texaco, Royal Dutch, American Locomotives, and Gulf States.
Patrick Patton attempted suicide by jumping into the Mississippi River in St. Louis His breath and will to die faded as two men John Spies and Charles Pabst held long notes to him pulling him ashore He gave his address as Decatur Illinois and was taken to city hospital
A Waterlooo resident planning a Los Angeles winter finds rents soaring. an apartment previously $75 monthly is now listed at $200. Desirable units are scarce and hotels run at peak rates amid wartime lean years. Snow geese were bagged by R W Page near Cedar Falls and displayed in Campbell's window. Football Friday shifts a game from Saturday to Friday at 4 p.m. on Teachers field.
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