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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1918
Page
4
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter promotes want ads with a one cent per word rate and minimum line charge. It emphasizes the value of well written ads to attract customers and notes the need for descriptive copy to aid sales and exchanges.
Classified notice style listing numerous employment and sale ads including housework, gift items, bookkeeper, stenographer, cook, night school, and real estate. Mentions locations, names, and duties with scattered personal notes from Fairbank area and surrounding towns.
Chicago September 16 1915 crops futures edged down after renewed peace talk. Corn prices opened mixed with October around 1.25 and November near 1.49 as traders weighed frost danger and improved cash demand. Oats and provisions moved modestly, with leading futures fluctuating and ongoing uncertainty over permits affecting market sentiment. Local notes report river trade and several public events, but focus remains on grain prospects and war news.
Marble Rock notes show Miss Hazel plans winter in Oklahoma and other south parts. Seventeen registered for the selective draft here Thursday, while Rev A Z Martin preached at the union Disciples church. Over $30 raised Tuesday evening to fund yarn for home boys entering service. Dena Mac, only child of Mr and Mrs Clarence Maxson, taken to Waterloo hospital for appendicitis treatment.
Chicago market reports show hog receipts steady with top price around 85 per hundredweight while cattle values in several cities including Omaha St Louis and Kansas City hold firm for steers and steady to higher for beef. Lamb and veal prices listed with varied receipts and price ranges across markets in mid September.
New York prices show butter receipts 8,435 tubs higher than extras with various grades listed. Cheese and poultry values noted with fresh gathered extras and dressed turkeys. Chicago market reports butter higher with 9,720 cases. potatoes weak with Minnesota and Wisconsin bids provided. Kansas City reports minor changes in butter and creamery packing prices with country unchanged.
New York traders saw initial softness in United States Steel and other heavy shares but oil issues drove an uptick. Mexican Petroleum moved from 103 to 6 cents, Texas company from 159% to 287, with Royal Dutch and California Petroleum gains near a point. Marine preferred and Pullman led advances as rail shares in the south and southwest gained on strong earnings and tonnage demand.
New Hartford reports F C Delvin buys the Eells-Faris Co drug stock and moves it to the Wick building. Donald Eells becomes assistant cashier at New Hartford State Bank after F H Sheple resigns. W R Locke takes Marcus Iowa station agent post as successor arrives. Several locals travel or relocate, and Wisconsin University reports 50 orphans adopted with over $2,000 raised for their care.
The clipping lists prices for cattle grain and dairy products, including grass fed steers and heifers, veal, pork, eggs, butter, lard, and potatoes. It also notes hides, eggs, dairy items, and wholesale versus retail price references, with grain and sugar futures figures and currency quotations from Peoria and New York exchanges.
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