Markets Report From U S Bureau of Markets Wheat Prices Slide
The report notes declines in potato and grain markets with Western shipments hurt by stormy weather. Wheat futures in Chicago and Minneapolis show losses week over week while cash markets mix with No. 2 red winter and No. 2 dark hard wheat quoted near current levels. Dairy and cotton trade softens alongside slumping live cattle and hogs in Chicago and Eastern meat markets.
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Lfe
New York
Belgium
United States
Argentina
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Kansas City
Kansas
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Timothy
Cincinnati
Omaha
Prairie
Philadelphia
Boston
Denver Live Stock Market Shows Mixed Feeder and Fat Lamb Demand
East price weakness echoes in Denver market with quiet trading in heavy lambs while cattle see brisk beef stock trade. Top beef steers fetch $9, cows $6.75, feeders $6 to $7.60. hogs steady with top at $10 and carload high at $39.90. Fat lambs in demand, but overall lambs lighter offerings push prices around $9 to $10 for select lots.
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Chicago
Denver
Abe
Snake cure tale sparks debate in leprosy treatment
Charles Mayer recalls a controversial anecdote from Singapore in Asia Magazine. He treated Ong Si Chew by feeding raw snakes hoping to transfer the skin shedding ability to combat leprosy. The patient died, but Mayer argues the theory may still hold potential in some cases.
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Singapore
Ong’ Si Chew
Ulla
Ong Si Chew
Charles Mayer
Asia Magazine
Polly Remembered Cyclone Parrot Dies at Fifty Three
Polly Langston a Missouri native parrot died aged fifty three. The trained singer and talker spoke English and Spanish and memorized hymns learned at church gatherings. She once drew a large cash offer from P T Barnum but was kept by her owner. A cyclone in youth left her terrified of storms for over four decades.
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Polly
Cyclone
Polly Langston
Missouri
P. T. Barnum
Conference Advances Standard Table for Child Measurements
A New York conference of the United States Children's Bureau United States Bureau of Education United States Public Health Service and other groups discussed creating a standard table for heights and weights of children. Current measurement tables differ among organizations causing confusion and non comparable results. A committee will prepare a uniform table to guide future weighing and measuring and enable consistent use of test data.
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United States Children’s Bureau
United States Bureau of Education
United States Public Health Service
New York City
Falling Manna and the Laziest Texas Oil Man
A humorous tale describes a man in Texas oil fields who boasts of long idle days yet has drilled several deep holes. He credits “the grace of God and the Wright brothers” for his belated luck as a neighbor jokes about the air route over his land.
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Texas
Oll
Bill
Grace of God
Wright Brothers
Mexico
Armerican Legion Weekly
Ostrich Egg Used for Monster Omelet Feeds Eighty
An ostrich egg from the New York zoological garden has sufficed for an omelet for 80 people. The egg’s food value and flavor equal those of a domestic hen egg. It contains leaf protein and more fat than meat, with useful constituents including tron and pho phorus.
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New York Zoological Garden
Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park Celebrated as Union Symbol
The piece reviews George Bancroft's Lincoln funeral eulogy and the completed Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park. It notes four linked memorials and statues, the central Lincoln statue by Daniel Chester French, the surrounding colonnade of thirty six columns, and the four-part design honoring Gettysburg and the second inaugural addresses. It mentions costs, construction details, and surrounding Washington reminders of Lincoln and ongoing national reverence.
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Edward Bates
Elizabeth Thompson
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Great Memorial
Fourth
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Scott Flannery
Lincoln Park
Thomas Ball
George Bancroft
Republic
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