Verdun Despair as French Troops Hold Caures Wood
An officer recalls the February Verdun battle for Caures wood. Despite brutal bombardment and loss of shelters, French chasseurs under Colonel Driant defend positions through night counterattacks. As the attack tightens, Driant refuses capture, choosing death over surrender while commanders urge retreat to save troops.
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Aris
Verdun
Caures Wood
Verija
Caures
Chasseurs
Penace
Driant
Daumont
Trayment
Colonel Driant Missing After Wood Battle
Detachment of chasseurs fights a crossing fire as they retreat from the wood toward Haumont. Colonel Driant, last seen urging his troops to safety, remained behind with a chasseur and disappeared as shells raked the area.
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Haumont
Driant
Candy for young thieves in Richmond
Mrs E R Smith reported her horse and buggy missing from North Seventh street. Police traced the theft to Boston six miles away where two young boys Jesse Smelser age five and Jack Smelser age three were found driving the buggy. The Boston marshal arrested them and Richmond officers retrieved the pair after a night-long wait. Chief Goodwin freed them to parents after buying each a bag of candy.
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Richmond
Ind
E. R. Smith
North Seventh Street
T Marshal
Boston
Chief Goodwin
Jesse Smelser
Jack Smelser
Jesse
Goodwin
Graduation Gift Sparks Sock Bound Enterprise
Kenton Ohio. Floyd Lyman member of the Kenton graduating class plans a haberdashery venture using 50 pairs of socks received as graduation presents. The note indicates entrepreneurial intent following graduation.
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Kenton
Floyd Lyman
Boy Tells a Pitiful Tale from the Roquillas Raid
A cavalry sergeant recounts a clash between pity and duty during the Roquillas raid ride to Marathon Texas. He describes watching Mexican prisoners, the moral struggle to aid them, and his oath to duty despite his compassion. Also notes mining developments in Colorado from Ouray to Georgetown as activity rises.
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Marathon
Tex
L Sturmwald
Fourteenth Cavalry
Alvarez
Manus
Torres
Roquillas
Rio Grande
McKinney Springs
Farmer kills wolf cubs with handsaw near Aitken
Byron Dolan of a farm two miles from Aitken used a handsaw as his only weapon to drive a wolf from its nest in a field near his home. He killed three cubs and took one alive to attempt taming it.
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Torres
Sacramento
Alvarez
Ele
Deemers
Aitken
Minn
Byron Dolan
Western Mining and Oil News Highlights and Prices
Metal market prices list copper casting at 26.00, lead at 7.00, bar silver 65 cents. Spelter in St. Louis 11.50, tungsten units 25 to 30. Inspirations pays a 2.00 quarterly dividend. Andes mine machinery delivered. Venus claims near Wickenburg active. Hosey mine renamed Pinal. Three mine to install 100 ton flotation mill. Big Jim face yields 52 per ton. Tulsa operators buy Big Stick in Santa Maria. shaft contract for Andrada near Casa Grande. Venture Hill Mining reorg aims to push Jerome copper belt development.
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Leadville
Colorado
Sugar Loaf
Red Oak
Democrat Mountain
St. Louis
New York
Boulder
Colo
Hosey
Santa Ritas
W. R. Ramsdell and Associates
Three
Big Jim
Kingman
Tulsa
Okla
Big Stick
Santa Maria
Andrada
Black Range
Casa Grande
Venture Hill Mining Company
Jerome Copper Belt
C. Spelter
Oil borings and mining deals shape New Mexico activity
Progress in Meadows field San Juan county and Farmington oil wells shows satisfactory results with indications of oil. Socorro Mining and Milling Company reports May clean-up yielding twenty five bars of gold and silver bullion and a one per cent dividend paid June 1. Progress Mining Company plans to operate adjacent Carlisle mine in Grant county Steeplerook district. Col P R Smith and partners completed San Miguel property in Sandoval county seven claims in Jemez mountains Nacimento mining district about seventy five miles north of Albuquerque.
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Meadows
San Juan
Farmington
Socorro Mining and Milling Company
Progress Mining Company
Arizona
Carlisle
Steeplerook
Grant County
Col. P. R. Smith
San Miguel
Sandoval
Jemez Range
Nacimento
Albuquerque
Wyoming Oil Activities Highlight North of Cody and Nearby Fields
A. M. Berringer starts two oil wells four miles north of Cody. The Ohio Oil Company plans drilling on its Indian lease north of Fort Washakie. The Wyoming Petroleum Company reports a productive light oil well north of Lander. Midwest Oil Company is pumping 1,000 barrels per day from Elk Basin to Frannie.
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A. M. Berringer
Cody
Ohio Oil Company
Fort Washakie
Wyoming Petroleum Company
Lander
Midwest Oil Company
Elk Basin
Frannie
Daddy Mole Builds Grand Underground Home Tale
Mary Graham Bonner retells a whimsical fable of Mr Mole planning a wedding home beneath a meadow. He digs a drive way tunnel and earth fashioned rooms, a picture gallery, and a throne for Mrs Mole while cousins Cricket Moles join the celebration with a vegetable feast and playful eye imagery.
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Mrs. Mole
Mr. Mole
Dense Scholar. There is such a thing as being 80 scholarly
A compact essay notes that excessive density in scholarly writing can hinder clarity. It suggests balance between rigorous argument and accessible prose, warning that impenetrable diction risks alienating readers even in advanced studies. The piece emphasizes clarity, purpose, and audience awareness.
Late Market Quotations for Beef and Sheep Prices
The cattle section shows steers and cows priced from 5.75 to 9.75 per hundredweight with varying grades pulp and grain fed hay fed. Veal calves range 10.00 to 12.00, feeders and stockers listed from 6.00 to 9.90, and lambs and sheep quoted with spring lambs at 10.75 to 11.25 and wethers 8.00 to 8.50.
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Taitto
Siic Inseaiwa
Buying Prices and Selling Rates for Western Upland Grains
List of buying and selling prices for Colorado and Nebraska upland per ton with several crops. Includes Timothy alfalfa wheat rye oats corn and bran and regional regions like South Park San Luis Valley Gunnison Valley and standard Colorado selling price.
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Colorado Upland
Nebraska Upland
Colorado
Nebraska
Timothy
South Park
Choice
choice, per ROM es cvic yer toce Bharerarese tae 17.50@18.00 San Luis Valley
Gunnison Valley
Ccceee
Colo
Idaho
Owenee
Eggs prices and grade listings for Denver area
The notice lists graded egg prices and packaging terms in Denver. No. 1 net eggs from I. O. B. and No. 2 net eggs labeled K Oi EDO VOR via show price ranges. Also shows case count pricing with commissions varying by category.
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Denver
Vintage produce and dairy prices from a local market
A fragment lists creamery grades with weights and prices, fruit boxes from Colorado apples, homegrown asparagus, carrots, cucumbers, peas, radishes, and related produce. The scrolled text reads like a 19th or early 20th century shopping ledger with unit prices and weights.
Tungsten Market Quotation in Boulder 65% Silver Bar
Metal market quotations show bar silver at 65 percent in Boulder Colorado on June 29 with tungsten priced per unit at 60 cents ranging from 25 to 30 dollars.
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Boulder
Colo
Chicago Live Stock Quotations
Chicago bids by class for hogs cattle and sheep with price ranges. Hogs range from 7 9.85 for pigs to 9.75 for bulk. native beef cattle 7.50 to 11.30. Western heifers 8.25 to 9.45. calves 8.50 to 11.75. cattle stockers 5.75 to 9.80. cows and heifers 3.75 to 9.85. sheep wethers 6.90 to 7.90. ewes 4.25 to 7.40. lambs 7.25 to 9.60. springs 7.50 to 11.00.
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Chicago
Chicago grain and provision prices report
Chicago prices for wheat: No 2 red 1.02 dollars No 3 red 1.004 to 1.01 dollars No 2 hard 0.98 0.95 to 0. cc. Corn: No 2 yellow 0.78 dollars No 4 yellow 0.764 to 0.76 dollars No 4 white not given. Oats: No 3 white 0.388 to 0.39 dollars standard 0.40. Barley 0.63 0.80. Timothy 9.00. Clover 7.00 to 10.00. Pork 23.75 to 24.75. Lard 13.02. Ribs 13.25 to 13.85.
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Chicago
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