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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1919
Page
4
The Waterloo Daily Want Advertising section details pricing for lines and paragraphs in light caps and black cafe type, marketing varied items from real estate to services. It emphasizes wide readership, accessibility of ads, and the department’s role in listing Wanted, For Sale and related notices for all classes of items.
A dense ran of small ads and notices including help wanted, lodging, lost and found, sales, and service offers. Entries name individuals and businesses such as Waterloo Feather & Mattress Work and Keister's Ladies' Tailoring College, with locations like West Fourth Street, West 12th Street, and 101 Prone. Listings cover jobs, rentals, furniture, and requested items, reflecting a mid century urban classifieds page.
A chaotic ad page lists 150 acre Parm farms, widow’s sale, and multiple real estate offerings. It includes 160 acre farms near Waterloo with $260 per acre, 140 acre dairy near a city, and various parcels in Iowa with prices, terms, and contact hints. Auto notices offer used cars, including a 1914 Ford Touring and a 5 passenger Cadillac with prices and addresses for viewing.
Classified ad items show poultry offerings, used goods, bikes, cars, and land for trade. Listings include contact names and addresses like 1318 Rattoire, 427 Miles Street Towit, Dunkerton IA, and Waterloo area references. Market notes mention grain prices and freight impacts.
La Porte City market notes show oats declined with corn and a weak open failed to rally as grain and hog prices weakened. Local obituaries report the death of Benjamin Leroy Scragging, longtime mail carrier, with details of his lightning injury and funeral.
Prices and market notes from New York Chicago and Kansas City. Fire damage at a Kerriman Hilmer residence and milk and butter receipts tied to La Porte City schools and local creameries. include cotton futures hogs cattle and sheep quotes with prices and changes.
A mixed trading day shows grain and livestock activity across St Louis and Waterloo markets. Cattle and hogs shift in price, while equities rally on early gains in Crucible Steel and related sectors before profit taking. Liberty bonds rise modestly amid a broad broker mood, and commodity prices in potatoes and dairy sectors fluctuate across regional summaries.
For Sale or Trade 160 acre farm in northeast Nees ot niles Tram pustoffing. Phone For Sale or Trade 160 Acras Canada and oleae of emembranes. Wahl emisider trading tas iy anie seed Town funn. Phone Wack 4843 ap hd aress C Smith 1501 ferteh avenue.
Chicago dispatch reports mixed livestock action with hog receipts at 131,900 and cattle and sheep totals around 19,060 and 32,000 respectively. Prices span heavy hogs at 19.00 to 25.50, cattle mostly 11.90 to 18.00 for steers, veal calves at 19.50 to 21.00, and sheep lambs with ewes and yearlings priced from 2.24 to 16.00 for various grades.
Receipts total about 18 500 for hogs with top prices near 19 2 per cwt and light hogs around 18 00 to 18 75. Cattle receipts include beef steers at 16 76 to 18 00 and dairy cows to 8 50. Sheep receipts around 4 000 with lambs at 12 50 and wethers 9 00 to 11 00. stockers and feeders listed with mixed prices.
Sioux City markets report receipts of 9 000 cattle and 3 000 sheep with hogs trading steady to a bit lower. Hogs ranged from 11 logic to 16 78 per cwt, cattle saw strong to higher demand for fed steers at around 17 50 to 16 50, grass cattle 9 00 to 13 00, cows and heifers 5 50 to 11 50, stockers 7 61, feeding cows 3 40 to 5 50, and sheep steady with 3 000 head noted.
W. H. Braun to Wallace in Prospect Hills addition Waterloo transaction 4,000.00. Jenmie V. Clark to J. A. Aungst lot 13, block 19 Litchfield addition Waterloo. Union titles to various properties in Cedar River, Waterloo, including Original Plat east side. George Johnson to F. F. Hilmer lots 7 and 3 block 311 Lane and Fowler’s Third addition Waterloo. Several transfers in Normal and Home Park additions Cedar Falls Waterloo. total figures include 2,409.35 and other listed sums.
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