Hog Prices Reach Peak Since 1920 As Hog Markets Slow
A Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation market analysis reports 1925 hog prices near record highs since 1920, with hog slaughter 20 percent below 1924 and 1928. Price range runs 10 to 34.50 per hundred pounds, peaking in spring, midsummer, and fall. Expect price support through 1926 unless hog output surges. Hog markets show lower receipts outside January and February, with June to October under 470000.
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Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Amusing Village Swim Customs and Weekend Trips
The piece describes local swimming habits with coconut oil soap and sun dried towels from wind and sun. It notes families bathing in streams near villages and playful domestic tensions as O Grouch and his wife Mrs. O Grouch drive on a Sunday trip to the county seeking peace.
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Earth
O'Grouch
O’grouch
Jane
Derivation of Church Part Names in Historic Text
A note explains church vocabulary by tracing porch aisle nave and chancel roots. It links porch to porta gate, aisle to alu wing, chancel to cancelli lattice ware, and nave to navis ship, noting how screens once separated east end from rest.
Monuments And Plagiarism In A Mysterious Tale
The piece recalls Guy de Maupassant with a Napoleon of literary theft tale. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once described discovering a story idea in a Swiss inn after buying a Maupassant book, finding Auberge as the heading and the exact plot of two enemies isolated in an inn for four months.
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Guy de Maunassant
Miromesnil
Norway
Arthur Conan Doyle
Switzerland
Bis Ming
de Maupassant
Eskimo Death Beliefs and Afterlife Customs
Eskimo theory of death holds two souls per person a good soul seeks bliss in a warm afterlife while an evil soul remains at the death site as a lingering harmful influence. Ill individuals are sent for a medicine man who may declare hopelessness and remove the patient to perish on the snow rather than seal the igloo.
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4Ura
Debtor’s Chair Enforced 1647 Debt Settlements in England
The Ohio State Journal notes a debt enforcement practice from 1647 where a debtor was summoned to a chair in the creditor’s office. Triggered hoops clamped at the knees, immobilizing the debtor while the creditor negotiated a settlement, a method said to be legal and widely used.
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England
Ohio State Journal
Leading to Success in Constant Effort Explained
A remark on perseverance notes that steady work wears away obstacles like water on stone. It asserts that eighty percent effort over time builds a worthwhile life through persistent adherence to a right purpose, shaping true success.
Notice to Creditors in Sublette County Estate
In the matter of the estate of Effi Be Shipley. Letters of administration issued to the undersigned. Creditors must file claims within ten months after March 11, 1926, with vouchers in Sublette County District Court or present them to the undersigned at Big Piney, Wyoming, or be barred from the estate. Dated Big Piney March 5, 1926.
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Sublette
District Court
Third Judicial District
Albert B. Stout
Stella M. Stout
P. MacGlashan
Big Piney
Sublette County
Wyoming
Pinedale
Big Piney Examiner, A Newspaper Printed and Published In Said Sublette County
John R. Arnold
Effi BE. Shipley
Sablette County
Notice of Land Selection in Indemnity School Lands
Department of the Interior Land Office at Evanston Wyoming publishes that Wyoming filed applications to select Indemnity School Lands List No. 228 Serial 010957 Lot 8 Sec 22 and Lot 2 Sec 28 T 30 N R 110 W and List No. 227 Serial 010958 described as EMSEY Sec 29 WH SW NY NWYX and NENEM Sec 18 T 31 N R 105 W containing 76.49 and 320 acres respectively. Lists open for public inspection. protests before approval to be sent to Washington. J. T. Booth Register. First Pub Mar 11 1926. Last Pub Apr 3 1926.
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Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office
Evanston
Wyoming
State of
General Land Office
Washington, D. C
J. T. Booth
Register
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GEO, W. Hopkins, JR
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Los Angeles
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Delaware
University
Los Angeles Livestock Exchange
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