01 Sep 1926
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Newspaper
Cedar Valley Daily Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1926
Page
1
Help wanted ads offer openings for commercial teachers government employees stone splitters and bookkeepers the Times notes rates and deadlines for advertisements and warns of reprint delays and error responsibility.
The text appears as a garbled obituary notice with multiple names and vague details. It mentions a person named Sue Gstret and mentions a death date and location in a garbled form. Other lines include scattered references to relatives, addresses, and possible funeral details, all obscured by OCR errors.
Fragmentary OCR text notes an administrative inquiry or memo with unclear names and timing. The readable bits mention an admin varied item and a date style fragment, but no coherent event, person, or organization can be confirmed.
Chicago hog receipts near 19 000 with bulk bids around 12.50 to 13.75 for various weights. cattle and calves mixed with steers at 9.00 to 12.50 and heifers 10.00 to 10.75. Sheep slow with fat lambs steady to 24 lower. cattle, hogs, and sheep markets show strength in some classes and weakness in others amid varied demand.
Daily market notes from Vinton show oats and hogs with varied weights and price ranges. Prime hogs 160-200 lbs at 3.95 to 12.05, 220-300 lbs at 12.05, 400-350 lbs at 2 to 10.70, packs under 4100 lbs at 5.70, over 400 lbs at 3.95. Poultry markets list light hens at 18 cents, old cocks 10 cents, springs 19 cents, eggs 14 cents, and hides at 25 cents.
A shorthand entry by Samuel Pepys reveals his diary as a unique reflection of the gay and profligate times between 1660 and 1669, not published until 1825.
Centuries before 1772 Finkand observed four Christmas holidays but a Swedish decree that year cut the third and fourth to shorten the festival for work. Finns kept two holidays December 25 and December 26 Saint Stephen's Day. The notice lists local residents prohibiting hunting or trespassing.
A large company planned a group photograph with the photographer and a youth who pressed the bulb. The shot was completed and the photographer later asked if the bulb was pressed as instructed. The boy replied that he had practiced it half a dozen times before taking the group.
A farmer and his wife discuss John Murrows. He had told the parson he held strong temperance views. The wife urges him to express them publicly, suggesting he share his views on the pump handle while fetching a pail of water.
In a tense scene a girl named Susie calls her mother into the next room alarmed by her younger brother who she says was teasing God. She reports he was saying prayers with one eye open and speaks in awe of the moment.
A Portland Maine window dresser suffered a painful injury while tacking a sheet in a window and retired quietly without a murmur. A friend expressed surprise at his stoicism, to which he quipped that he could not swear with his mouth full of tacks.
The Baltimore Sun notes wild ducks migrate along defined air lanes or passes. Of 16,000 lakes in Minnesota, about 9,000 lack wild duck sightings as flocks consistently use the same routes year after year.
Dave Mackie has been assigned a tractor territory by the Caterpillar Tractor Company. The eastern town representative notes a Dew company formed from Holt and L. Best men, with Mackie receiving a larger share of tractors than rivals.
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