Oriental Rugs Offer at Local Store
A local shop promotes its own Oriental rugs in various sizes with strong quality and low prices. Shoppers are warned to avoid buying from traveling peddlers and invited to view the display of attractive rugs.
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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1913
Page
12
A local shop promotes its own Oriental rugs in various sizes with strong quality and low prices. Shoppers are warned to avoid buying from traveling peddlers and invited to view the display of attractive rugs.
H Allen chief engineer for the Galloway company returned from Springfield Mass after attending the National Association of Stationary Engineers meeting as a delegate from the local order. He traveled from Chicago to Canada and Vermont by special train with 430 delegates from across the nation.
Lebowich announces plan to replace the two story stone corner structure at Fourth and Water streets with a brick business block. He expects site clearance next week and foundation soon after with plans ready in days, targeting occupancy by February 1. The site is a prized downtown location attracting tenants.
A hawker at the public market was ordered to the police station to answer a complaint that apples were sold without weighing. Holland cabbages averaged four pounds, three and a quarter cents per pound. Red Weathersfield onions priced at 20 cents per half peck. Grower harvest forecast 30 bushels from a 160 bushel last season. Turnips four or five per nickel, radishes two bunches per wicket, icicle radishes three bunches per dime. Live poultry potatoes melons and other fruits available. plums still on market though prices rise due to scarcity.
Five hundred descendants of the Teutonic race from Waterloo attended the Fort Dodge German day centennial celebration. Parades speeches and entertainment marked the program as the community marked liberation from Napoleon. Weather ranged from 60 to 72 degrees with a forecast of mild conditions.
Chicago markets feature Italian wheat crop optimism, firmer grains, and mixed livestock action. Hogs and cattle advance while sheep and lambs stay steady as Kansas City and Chicago prices reflect early gains and later pullbacks.
Isabella Stine wife of H S West of Third street died at Presbyterian hospital after a four week illness. Born in Waterton in 1884 she was twenty nine. She leaves her husband an infant child and her parents Mr and Mrs Campbell of Pipestone Minnesota.
Brief items cover Mrs John Fearer entertaining twelve ladies at a Washington Street luncheon and gatherings of local groups. Several residents head to universities in Chicago Ann Arbor and Des Moines. others attend church events and family visits. A dense fog caused a car collision at Fifth and Main with no injuries. Cedar Falls sent three train cars of people to the Waverly Bremer County fair. Elmer Baker faces charges over beating his team. another croquet match is planned with Marshalltown players and local drivers attending.
A list of visitors to Wy WLU includes Mr and Mrs Monahan Jesup Rev and Mrs Ward Hesmond Alice Bremner Osage June Bremner Horace Love Missouri Vines Edna Wilson Alexandria Neb Miss N Young Mrs Ella Hobson Maudick Weimer Missouri Valley Dora Smith Center Janetion Mrs CD Bothwell Fairhank Maxine Plummer New Hartford Ethanh Bucknan Minneapolis Emma Puisha Cedar Rapids Ella Tabor New York A Emerson Jesup Ho Wilson Jesip HR Harderleben Jesus Mrs and Madge Banham Fairfield rat
Waterloo man George Smith won the lowest bid for the Sartori hospital gyagon construction, exclusive of heating and plumbing. Heating and plumbing bids will be settled at a city hall meeting that afternoon. Work to start immediately with foundation this fall and completion early next year.
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