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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
12
An archival market notice lists prices for hides and pelts including dry salted hides, green salted hides, cured hides, bucks saddles and pieces, and various grades with per pound rates. The dense OCR reads like a vendor ledger with multiple weight categories and item names such as dry filets, bulls, calves, and Kip hides.
In Chicago market notes receipts reach 21 000 hogs 22 000 sheep and 11 000 cattle with mixed gains and losses. Top hog price around 16 to 16 60 with whites and natives leading the bid while light stockers show 16 47 to 16 60. Sheep trade weaker while native lambs bring around 15 to 11 dollars per head.
OCR reads mixed commodities prices with oats corn rye and pork values. Listings show No 2 and No 4 grade feeders and wheat and corn prices around two dollars, milk and creamery references appear, but many words are garbled. overall depicting a Chicago market roundup with grain and dairy quotations.
A playful dialogue features a fish, a surf board shaped like a fish, and a sport fish arguing about looks and roles. The board boasts its travel through streets to the beach and being ridden on waves, while the fish condemns looking alike and stresses their different purposes. The exchange ends with mutual amusement at their differences.
Captain Stevens leads an African expedition amid reports of a fifty foot dinosaur like beast with scales and red spots. Belgian hunters and scientists weigh sightings, outlines suggest brontosaurus or triceratops traits, while others doubt any living relic survives. The piece surveys iguanodont and mosasaur possibilities, cites Wells and Winans, and notes geologic eras and fossil evidence.
A humorous dialogue where a young man asks his prospective brother in law aged five if he will be sorry when IT marry his sister. The little boy retorts I be sorry for you signaling playful misunderstanding. The exchange reflects family humor and childhood wit.
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