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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1914
Page
4
Item list includes three upholstered spring seat racks at 7 each with minor scratches, one child’s bed used 300 days valued at 800, leather chairs at 4 genuine price, one bed with spring and mattress at 4 405, two refrigerators, foam components, one high chair at 12, seller Joe Raymond and PLO cast.
A garbled notice lists various furniture items with odd spellings and inconsistent pricing. It mentions leather items, a spring and Futon set, pillows, a massive two post bed, a chiffoniere, and other pieces with prices ranging from four to forty dollars. The text is largely unreadable and contains numerous errors.
A collage of sale offers and legal notices including farm properties near Cedar Falls Waterloo and D. M notes. Also probate actions appointing executors administrators and appraisers for estates such as Fidelia Lane Lorinda Champlin and Lois Thurber with dates in 1914 and 1974.
Grain prices and market notes from Wisconsin and Iowa regions with wheat corn and oats quotes. Includes Minneapolis and Duluth wheat futures, livestock and dairy prices, and local Waterloo market listings for hay, butter, eggs, potatoes, poultry, and hides. Prices cover a range of grades and contracts with regional demand signals.
Marinette Wisconsin September 22. Parcel Post Publishing Co forms to launch Parcel Post News a weekly national paper focused on parcel post growth and cutting living costs by shipping produce directly from farmers to city consumers. Frank Noves publisher and Wisconsin City League president serves as business manager and Howard J. Wood ex editor is editor and president.
Des Moines September rainfall totals 11.78 inches, within 1.01 inches of the 1881 June record. The note marks the month as exceptionally wet, edging toward a historic low-variance year.
Waterloo physicians fear the German twilight sleep anaesthetic risks are too great for universal use. Dr Evans of a Chicago health page echoes the warning amid widespread discussion of painless childbirth and magazine reports highlighting possible danger to mother and child.
Sugar sits at eight dollars per hundredweight while canning peaches fetch one dollar twenty five cents per bushel. Large pears cost two dollars twenty five cents per bushel and apples are forty cents per peck. Cranberries gel five cents per quart as canning wanes this season due to sugar costs.
Mr and Mrs G W Hawyer thank friends and neighbors for kindnesses and floral offerings during the illness and death of their baby boy. They note blood pressure tests reveal brain workers are more fatigued than laborers.
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