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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1918
Page
14
A motorman wears a goldenrod sprig in his cap as he nears the Capitol sparking a talky scene among an older couple and two young men. The card Lil sent from Colonial Beach becomes a tease as jealousy flares and memories mix with seaside imagery.
In a World War I memoir snapshot, American Arthur Guy Empey travels to England to train with the British Army. He endures trench warfare, a desertion arrest, and a death sentence before a pivotal dawn, then joins one final charge as D company fights to hold their line.
The piece previews Britain’s forthcoming major offensive known as the Big Push, a forerunner to the Somme battle. It invites readers to continue in the next installment and reflects on the theme of strength through truth as espoused by Phillips Brooks.
A Dixie man insists the fruit given as grapefruit is actually pomelo, naming its proper term from the Far East. Mrs. Frank Leslie once promoted pomelo fame, noting it grows in clusters like grapes, while the piece muses on naming quirks and a playful heavenward wisdom.
A man carries a heavy wrapped electric fan on a crowded middoor street car filled with women resting after shopping. He hopes a passenger will offer him a seat but all the women ignore him and look out the windows. The piece notes the gendered seating dynamic on public transit.
A World War II era voice notes zeal of women clerks walking to work after car crashes and their reform crusade. They urge early rising for health and savings while provoking pushback from a male colleague tired of moral policing. The piece ends with a plea for balance and letting go.
Western Union News Service reports Denver market prices for cattle and feedstuffs. Fat steers and cows show wide ranges by grade from good to prime, with feeders and stockers priced per hundredweight. Oats and corn values listed alongside hay and grain commodities for Colorado and Nebraska.
Prices quoted for metals and agricultural commodities across multiple cities. Bar silver 99% copper 25.62 per cent lead 8.05 East St. Louis spelter 8.22 8.32 Boulder tungsten concentrates 60 20.22 50 12.50 12.20 coffee Rio October 8.35 June 8.61 live stock at Chicago hogs top 20.05 cattle beef 17.00 18.80 butter eggs potatoes poultry creamer 39 40c. eggs 37 38% Ordinary firsts 35 36%4c. corn oats barley prices. cotton October 28.80 December 27.98 January 27.85 March 27.80 May 27.85 middling 1.15.
The document lists dry hides and pelts with price ranges for different grades. It mentions dry Flint hides, bulls and stag hides, culls and glue hides, salted hides, horsehides, dry Flint pelts, wool pelts including butcher and murain shearlings, bucks and saddles, and green salted hides with price per pound variations.
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