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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1918
Page
6
A motorman on a Capitol-bound trolley wears a goldenrod sprig in his cap triggering a memory chain among an older couple and two youths. One boy boasts of a postcard from Lil at Colonial Beach while the other pretends his other coat hides the truth.
An American in Jersey City, Arthur Guy Empey, goes to England to join the British Army. He fights in France, faces gas, shellfire, and a court martial for desertion, and witnesses a sentry killed before his own dramatic decision to rejoin his unit in a final charge with D company doomed to hold a trench against German forces.
The article notes Britain preparing for the Big Push, the precursor to the Somme battle. It promises continuation in the next installment. A closing quote urges striving after strength and truth, aligning strength with moral resolve.
A playful piece relays how a Southern man insists the fruit given to a helpful woman is pomelo not grapefruit, noting pomelo’s proper name from East Asia and the historical push by Mrs. Frank Leslie. The essay lightly mocks naming quirks and ends with a nudge to try calling it pomelo for taste.
A man with a large wrapped windmill like electric fan rides a crowded middoor streetcar. He tries to get a seat from women absorbed in shopping and looking out the windows. He had long given up seats to women for twenty years and hoped for pity, but none offered.
An early 20th century tableau critiques zeal in reform minded women clerks who walk to work amid car crashes. They push a healthier, earlier rising ethic, but a male coworker protests being “made over” by others. The piece ends with a plea for letting go.
Denver market report lists cattle prices for fat steers and cows across grades from fat to canners with ranges from 6.50 to 16.75 per cwt. It includes feeders and stockers price bands, F.O.B. Denver carload prices, upland hay and prairie hay per ton, oats and corn prices, and gluten and flour items with discounts. Prices are given for Colorado and Nebraska regions, with per hundredweight and per ton figures.
New York quotes list bar silver copper lead spe lter tungsten concentrates and coffee prices. Chicago hogs and cattle reach new highs with varied classes and butter eggs potatoes numbers. Minnesota corn oats barley wheat cotton futures shown with specified months and price ranges.
Market notes list prices for hides and pelts including dry Flint hides at 28c to 16c for various grades, salted hides 2c to 8c per lb less, horsehides half to two thirds green salted, and wool pelts including butcher and murain shearlings with No.1 27 80c and No.2 12 14c. Green salted hides and serr cured items also noted.
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