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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1919
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Daily Reporter promotes its Want Ads policy with rates and formatting notes. It positions the department as a community marketplace for all items, emphasizing minimum charges and display conventions for Wanted and For Sale listings.
A crowded run of notices lists lost items including a ladies watch with open face reward, found keys and garbled contact hints. Appears to mix personal announcements with job ads seeking carpenters salesmen and general help, plus numerous wanted and for sale lines across homes cars and household goods.
An old fragmented notice advertises sale of autos and miscellaneous items. The readable portions list vehicles and related goods with unclear details scattered across a city area near Watrrlac and references to a court and local listings.
Obituary notices for Mortuary Hred Guxer age 72 of Waterloo died at Presbyterian Hospital after a long heart condition. Widowed, with children Leo T. Baker B G Baker Ed W Baker Dan V Baker Arlene and Madeline Huker and Lt Alvin R Baker with U.S. Army in Germany. Also surviving are sister Mrs C Saltzman and Kate Baker and Val Baker. Funeral arrangements pending.
The market records a weak corn market with limited support and scattered selling. Opening prices fluctuated with limited gains before selling pressure spread, as December and May contracts fell and shipping disruptions linked to British strikes weighed on futures and provisions.
Chicago notes show Hog prices down about 25 cents while cattle futures firm and oats and corn weaken. Grain and hogs drag provisions as trading remains cautious with limited demand and mixed receipts across major markets including Minneapolis and New York bonds.
The Omaha and Kansas City market notes show receipts around 4,000 cattle and 8,000 hogs with varied price ranges. Cattle demand remains steady with choices and prime steers near 15.00 to 17.00, medium and good at 14.50 to 15.25, and calves around 11.40. Hog prices move differently by grade, with heavy and packing sows around 15.30 to 16.00 and pigs near 15.? to 17.00. The Kansas City grain markets report cash grains and corn values, while St. Joseph notes hogs higher but overall slow trade.
Produce prices from New York show declines and varied quotes for grain and eggs. Entries list Peoria grain prices for white and mixed corn, yellow corn, and mixed, with receipts around 3,569 to 4,946 cases for eggs and cheese, plus state milk flats and creamery quotes and fowl prices.
Reports say Duluth towing crews walked out following a Saturday vote. The Associated Press notes unrest at several plants as workers protest pay and conditions amid broader labor action in the region.
East St. Louis and Sioux City stockyards report varied bid prices and receipts. Cattle and veal rates span common to prime plus specific weights, while sheep receipts reach around six thousand with modest sales.
Four sailors were severely burned in an explosion in the boiler room of the destroyer Greene off Key West. Submarine chasers with waits and assistants rushed to aid and tow the ship to Key West. No details of the accident were released in messages from the Greene.
Amid volatile trading in the United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel seen this week. Traders noted stronger demand for aluminum and steel futures as factory activity and industrial output showed mixed signals.
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