Market Quotations Report From Washington Bureau
The weekly market report covers grain and corn prices in Chicago and Minneapolis with declines in wheat and corn, notes weaker eastern and southern demand, and lists cash and futures levels for No. 2 Red Winter wheat No. 2 Hard wheat and various corn and oats grades. It also reports spot cotton prices and futures, dairy butter prices, and live stock values in Chicago with mixed movements across beef, veal, lambs, and pork products.
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Mary Cele
Chicago
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Kansa City
New York
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Memphis
Prairie
Denver Live Stock Market Report
Cattle offerings were scarce with fair heifers and varied cow pricing. Hogs saw steady to higher quotes with several loads at 9.75 and 9.65, while sheep mainly moved steady with Nevada lambs at 9.10 and ewes at 4 to 4.50, and overall trading active.
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Nevada
Market Report of Grain and Feed Prices
The record lists prices for corn No 3 yellow per ew t and No 3 mixed per ew t. Wheat No 1 per bushel and oats per CW hr are noted in a faded market brief.
Tar and feathering attack near Brenham shocks residents
A White lawyer A W Heddle, 60, was seized by four men, tarred and whipped four miles from Brenham, then told to leave town. Another man Joe B Cighon, 60, was stripped, tarred and feathered three miles from the city, and severely beaten in a similar assault.
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Brenham
A. W. Heddle
Hedde
Joe B. Cighon
Neo
Live Through Silly Season
An old man frets at youth saying teens lack sense and virtue but notes some become fine adults. He contrasts awkward boys and giggling girls with their lustered eyes and urges patience. He recalls his own youth, fears for his son, and concludes many youths mature into capable, seasoned adults if given chance.
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Baltimore Evening Sun
The Power of Music and a Military Bargain
Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, famed for currency work and later federal fiscal leadership, persuasive in wartime logistics, used a musicians skill to secure eight hundred horses by charming Gen. William E. Budkin and a cafe orchestra in France. Dawes played until dawn, winning the horses after a night of music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles G. Dawes
Hell
Maria
Uncle Sam
General Pershing
France
Dawes
William E. Budkin
Barthelmess Meets a Sport in a Country Friend Tale
Dick Barthelmess recalls a country acquaintance who pursued a girl from a film. The man kept taking her out, but she kept asking for salted almonds and finally he quit after a third request. He jokes the girl owes him 30 cents now and has not repaid.
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Barthelmess
Dick Barthelmess
Anaying
New York Tribune
Advice to Idiots on Agnosticism at Portland Luncheon
Bishop Hughes told a luncheon in Portland an agnostic question about Bible difficulties. He compared handling unhelpful verses to eating planked shad, saying one should set bones aside and continue enjoying the meat, letting others fret over bones.
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Bishop
Hughes
Portland
Nine Year Old in Brooklyn Narrowly Escapes Subway Fall
Anna Cunningham aged nine fell from a station platform in Brooklyn in front of an elevated train. She dropped between the platform rim and the track, touched an electric feed wire, and landed 35 feet to the street. A policeman carried her to safety. doctors reported three broken teeth and light scratches as her only injuries.
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Anna Cunningham
Brooklyn
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
War Shrines in Schools Across Great Britain
Nearly 1 000 schools in Great Britain have been provided with war shrines to honor former pupils. The project places memorials in educational centers to commemorate alumni who served in past conflicts.
Gorgas Memorial Institute for Tropical Disease Proposed
Memorial to General William C Gorgas to be built at Balboa Panama as The Institute for Research in Tropical Diseases and the Study of Preventive Medicine. It would unite international medical experts, labs, and scholarships to combat tropical diseases and advance preventive medicine worldwide.
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William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army
Institute For
Gorgas
Balboa
Pacife
Panama Canal
Institute
Tropics
North American
Central
South America
Panama
Canal
W. Co. Braisted
Pan American Union
William C. Gorgas
West Indies
Cuba
Ecuador
Peru
Africa
Lfe
Institute For Research In
Bellaario Porrus
Republic of Manama
Josephi Lefevre
Franklin Martin
American College of Surgeons
London
Liverpool Schools of
Gorgas Memorial
Santo Tomas Hospital
Gorgas Memorial Institute
Health Department of the Republic
United States
Provisional Board
Orgas
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U.S. Bureau OF Markets
Washington D.C
Newspaper Union News Service
New Jersey
Kansas
Philadelphia
Boston
Menia
Denver
Colorado
Timothy
South Park
Pamaia Catal
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