Market Quotations Show Slump in Grain and Livestock
Weekly market summary from Washington reports grain and corn closing lower despite active export sales. Chicago and Minneapolis grain prices fall, cotton declines, dairy butter weak, live stock prices mixed with beef and lamb down, veal higher, wholesale meat prices mostly down.
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Mary Cele
Chicago
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Kansa City
New York
New Jersey
Kansas
Denver Live Stock Market Report
Cattle availability was tight with fair and killing cows quoted from 4.76 to 6.60. Feeder and light steers ranged 4.50 to 6.25 with some at 6.10. Hogs offered with steady to higher prices. bulk 7.85 to 9.65, top loads 9.75. Lambs from Nevada steady at 9.10, ewes 4.00 to 4.50. activity generally steady.
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New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Menia
Nevada
Hay and Grain Prices From the Commodities Market
Fragmented OCR lists hay and grain prices with incomplete terms and garbled phrases. The readable items include No 3 yellow corn per ewt No 3 mixed per ewt and No 1 wheat per bushel with uncertain trailing words indicating oats and related values.
Two Men Tar and Feathered in Brenham Tex
A White lawyer A. W. Heddle, age 60, was seized in his Brenham office by four men, driven four miles away, tarred and whipped, then ordered to leave town. Joe B. Cighon, 60, also White, was assaulted three miles from Brenham, tarred and feathered, and beaten amid threats.
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Brenham
A. W. Heddle
Hedde
Joe B. Cighon
Neo
Live Through Silly Season Foxes Old Man View
A Baltimore Evening Sun column reflects on the folly of youth and the skepticism of the aging, noting that many teens and young adults show off, talk too much, and chase vices yet few become doomed. It argues fathers once were that selfsame youth and that most growing up into adults leads to wiser lives.
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Baltimore Evening Sun
The Power of Music and the Eight Hundred Horses
Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, famed financier and now head of the federal fiscal system, used a musical ploy to secure eight hundred horses in wartime France. After a failed formal request to Gen. Budkin, Dawes charmed the British commander by playing an instrument with an orchestra, keeping them entertained until dawn and winning the horses.
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Charles G. Dawes
Hell
Maria
Uncle Sam
General Pershing
France
Dawes
William E. Budkin
Barthelmess Encounters a Country Friend
Dick Barthelmess recalls meeting a country friend who bugged him to introduce him to a girl in a film. The man chased the girl for three dates, then quit after she kept asking for saltier almonds, joking the girl owes him 30 cents for the snacks.
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Barthelmess
Dick Barthelmess
Anaying
New York Tribune
Advice to Idiots on Agnosticism at Portland Luncheon
Hughes quoted Bishop arguing that agnostics should ignore Bible difficulties while enjoying the core teaching. He compared Bible bones to bones in fish, saying one should skip the hard parts and continue to savor the meat, letting others choke on the bones.
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Bishop
Hughes
Portland
NineYearOld Girl Survives Brooklyn Platform Fall
Anna Cunningham aged nine slipped from a station platform in Brooklyn in front of an elevated train. She missed the cars, tumbled between the platform rim and the track, brushed an electric feed wire, and fell about 35 feet to the street. A policeman carried her to safety. doctors report three broken teeth and minor scratches as her only injuries.
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Anna Cunningham
Brooklyn
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
War shrines in British schools honor former scholars
Nearly 1,000 schools in Great Britain have been provided with war shrines to memorialize former pupils. The displays honor alumni who served or fell in past conflicts, reflecting nationwide commemorations within educational settings.
Memorial for General Gorgas Proposed in Panama Institute
A memorial project to General William C. Gorgas proposes the Institute for Research in Tropical Diseases and the Study of Preventive Medicine to be built at Balboa Panama. The plan envisions a international center with laboratories and teaching facilities, aiming to advance tropical and preventive medicine and bolster global health efforts.
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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
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Memphis
Prairie
Denver
Colorado
Timothy
South Park
Pamaia Catal
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