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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
9
The Waterloo Evening Courier describes its Want Advertising Department as a district institution where people buy sell or exchange items of any value and read the want ads each evening. It notes rates: one cent per word with a 25 cent minimum, and line pricing with variations in caps and lighting.
Notices detail lodge membership payments due by October 31 to avoid suspension. Numerous classified items follow: lost items, wanted help, rental rooms, real estate for sale, and various buy and sell offers from Waterloo area including furniture, clothing, and farm equipment. The page mixes announcements with abundant small ads and notices.
A collage of sale notices and notices from Waterloo area including phonographs stoves beds and appliances for sale. Also legal notices about a divorce petition in Black Hawk County Iowa and a district court summons. Market prices for Waterloo and nearby commodities listed with livestock and produce notes.
Patchy prices across dairy meat and machinery sectors show varied receipts and asks. Milk, cheese, and poultry quotes mix with bond and silver notes as merchants scan for trends in a volatile October market.
The market for corn in Ubbargo Ohio eases on news of factory strike activity and labor unrest in Washington. Opening prices fall and quick rallies fade as coal miners’ strike threats and weak stocks weigh on sentiment. December settles near 1.24 cents and May around 1.22 dollars amid renewed caution.
Chicago market report shows hogs 25c lower with unsettled buyers and firmish to lower quotes across weights. Cattle receipts 16,000 with mixed bids. beef steers selling from 11 to 19.40, heifers around 14.50, cows and calves down, veal calves and feeders mixed. Sheep weak with lambs 10.50 to 15.65 and ewes 6.75 to 8.50.
Market notes from Kansas City East St. Louis and Sioux City show receipts around 9 000 in KC and 3 000 in East St. Louis with mixed cattle hogs and sheep prices. Beef steers prime and high grades ranged near 11.40 to 16.60 with medium and lower grades 10.00 to 14.75. hogs traded 11.00 to 12.75 top with various weight classes. lambs and yearlings priced from about 5.60 to 14.80 depending on grade and weight.
New York and Chicago markets show mixed activity with cotton near $39.00, animal markets steady, and stocks uneven. Liberty bond prices listed alongside notes on steel shares and general market volatility fueled by labor and industrial conference tensions. Petroleum and oil prospects are teased by a promotional ad for New Mexico leases.
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