Markets in Wheat Corn Livestock Rise Amid Demand Shifts
Market notes show higher prices for timothy alfalfa and prairie feeds in several cities while receipts exceed demand at Cincinnati and Memphis. Wheat and corn futures drifted with export demand surging late February, while Chicago hogs and cattle posted notable gains and beef, veal, and lamb prices climbed across eastern markets.
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Memphis
Idaho
Kansas City
Chicago
Prairie
Timothy
New York
Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Emphis
Kanane City
Omaha
Kansit City
Minneapolia
Buffalo
Memphia
St. Louis
Denver Live Stock Market Report
Cattle demand fair with limited reef steers. top price $9.25 for a load of choice stock. Hogs active early with top $10.10, bulk around $10. The sheep section shows a 60 cent drop on most classes. fat lambs to $4.26 freight paid and feeders to $3.65. Prices vary by grade with cows and heifers best around $6.60 to $7.50 and feeders $7.26 to $7.50.
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Urain
Chicago
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Winnipeg
New York
Philadelphia
Ston
Plymouth Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Young Americas
Hoga
Coles
Theae
Helped to Create Nation Pony Express Reminiscence
An article recalls William Gooding, reputed last pony express rider, and outlines the pony express era. It notes service began April 16 1859, cut cross continental transit to about ten days, relay stations, and riders facing Indian country. It contrasts with 1868 telegraph and rail, and praises daring drivers and US progress from Plymouth Rock to Seal Rocks.
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Los Angeles
William Gooding
Pony Express
Union and
Southern Pacific
Promontory Point
Utah
Buchanan
Congress
San Francisco
Plymouth Rock
Seal Rocks
Great Waterspout Observed South of Cape Comorin
A correspondent reports a waterspout sighting south of Cape Comorin on a calm day. The funnel formed between a russet-gray cloud and the sea about five miles from the ship, with base 4600 feet above the water and a column narrowing from 600 feet to 150 feet. The tube appeared to have downward water walls and an ascending central column, lasting 13 minutes before the walls rose back into the cloud.
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Cape Comorin
Word Play Riddles With A Three Syllable Word
Wesley at North Side School asks how many cylinders in a three syllable word as vocabulary expands at home. Father brings a new automobile and garage talk while mother helps interpret the unfamiliar term.
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Wesley
North Side
Wealey
Indianapolis News
Minister Tests Groom at Wedding in Humorous Exchange
A minister, unable to identify the groom among several young men, asks a young man with the largest flower in his buttonhole if he is the happy groom. The reply is sly and playful, noting the marriage question is still to be decided while the minister presses on with the inquiry.
Improvement in Japan by Pirat-class Roads
In Japan narrow roads are being replaced by Pirat-class routes as old paths give way to new automobile roads electric roads and light railways serving many areas. Rolling stock and log methods are also being improved.
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Japan
New York Herald
Campaign Spending In 1920 Presidential Race Totals
Senate investigation reports 1920 campaign spending across national and state committees. Republicans spent about 8.1 million versus Democrats 2.29 million. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood led Republican bids with 1.77 million. Other notable figures include Frank Lowden 414 thousand and Palmer 59 thousand for Democrats.
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Union News Service
Washington
United States
Senate
Congress
Kenyon
Iowa
Bilge
New Jersey
Spencer
Missouri
Pomerene
Ohio
Reed
Elections Committees
Republican Party
Leonard Wood
Frank O. Lowden
Senator Johnson
California
Herbert Hoover
Harding
Poindexter
Coolidge
Nicholas Murray Butler
New York
Palmer
Cox
James W. Gerard
Germany
Owen
Oklahoma
William G. McAdoo
France
Maryland
Republican Congressional Committee
Lawyer Gets Six Months in County Jail
Charles Metcalfe a 65 year old Sioux City lawyer was sentenced in state court to six months in the county jail for shooting Mrs George Booton in the jaw during a July incident described as no family quarrel She recovered Metcalfe appealed to the Supreme Court after conviction on assault with intent to commit great bodily injury following an indictment for assault with intent to murder
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Sioux City
Iowa
Charles Metcalfe
George Booton
Metcalfe
Supreme Court
House backs park exemption from water power act
The House approved the Senate bill exempting national parks from the federal water power act. The measure goes to the President and would bar construction of commercial dams and power houses in Western national parks.
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Washington
House
Senate
National
West
Congress Passes About 400 Bills in Sixty Sixth Congress
Figures show more than 28 000 bills and resolutions were introduced during the Sixty sixth Congress and a little over 400 passed. In the House 17 20 measures were introduced, while the Senate saw 5 784.
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Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Revolution Bloodshed in Morence Kills Eleven
Eleven people were killed during revolutionary disorders in Morence, with over a hundred wounded and about five hundred arrested as authorities framed a Tuscany wide plot.
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Tuscany
Champ Clark Dies in Washington After House Retirement
Champ Clark died in Washington within two days of leaving the House after twenty six years of service. Cause of death listed as pleurisy with complications from old age. He had remained active in House affairs until ten days before his death, and his colleagues mourned his passing shortly after the announcement of Vic’s death.
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Champ Clark
Washington
House of Representatives
Clark
Vic
U S Faces Mandate Tangles as Hughes Deliberates
Washington reports step back in US allied disputes over mandates for Yap and Mesopotamia. President Harding and Secretary of State Hughes to decide post replies from the League of Nations council and Britain. Council notes echoed Paris, with publication choices and future talks left to a new administration.
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Washington
League of Nations Council
Harding
Charles E. Hughes
Council
Great Britain
Yap
Japan
Mesopotamia
United States
Davis
Paris
St Wae
League
Mantate
Ship Rescued After Thirty-Three Days
An 83-year-old captain and six crew members survived thirty three days at sea after their twenty six ton yawl sprang a leak and was tossed in a storm. They were rescued by an ocean liner about 180 miles from the nearest port after leaving Turkle Inland on January 26 bound for Bermuda.
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New York
Gasaield
Turkle
Bermuda
Regiments in Revolt Across Europe and Caucasus Fronts
Dispatch from Riga reports Petrograd rumors of Bolshevik overthrow with stormy protests over bread and a constituent assembly. Revolts and clashes claimed at Vassily Island and Putiloff works, while Tiflis fell to Bolshevists who joined with Cossacks. Turkish forces near Batum threaten full front, with Sukhum Kale shelling and Bolshevist advance along the Black Sea coast.
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Union News Service
Riga
Petrograd
Moscow
Putiloff Iron Works
Caucasian Front
Vassily Island
Constantinople
Tiflis
Erivan
Armenia
Hekkir
Cauecasus
Vladikivakaz
Batum
Karlo Kaarabekir
Catum
Armeniaa
Black Sea
Sukhum Kale
Bill Seeks Post-Governor Bar to U.S. Senate
A Texas House bill proposes that any person who has held the governorship of Texas, or who may hold it in the future, would be ineligible to serve as U.S. senator from Texas, according to Austin lawmakers.
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Senate
Austin
Texas
House
United States
Argentina Threatens Boycott Over U S Trade Policy
Argentina warns it will cut imports if the United States ends customer status, saying a Fordney emergency tariff bill would trigger the move and citing government sources in Buenos Aires.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
United States
Fordney
la Tkazon
Mob Attacks Detroit Bakery Customers Over Bread Prices
Police quell a disturbance as about 200 people confront customers leaving a Detroit bake shop. Bread was seized by protesters and tossed into the street amid a grand jury probe into bread price gouging. Justice A B Gordon advised Detroiters to avoid overcharging dealers amid the investigation.
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Detroit
Mich
A. B. Gordon
Congress Fails to Override Wilson on Fordney Tariff Bill
The House failed to secure the necessary two thirds to override President Wilson's veto of the Fordney emergency tariff bill. The final vote was 201 to 182, 21 short of the required margin, ending an effort to aid farmers with wartime relief. Wilson urged broader measures, citing worldwide recovery and foreign trade concerns. He also signed a resolution repealing most war era laws and approved several appropriations including Indian, legislative, executive and judicial, agricultural and fortifications bills.
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Washington
March
Wilson
Fordney
House
Ways and Means Committee
Europe
Credit Foundation
Congress
War Finance Corporation
Brother shoots to put brother out of misery in Michigan woods
Warren Branfield, 11, is detained by Pontiac police amid a homicide inquiry into the death of 9-year-old Clare Branfield in a Farmington woods. The older boy says he killed his brother after accidentally wounding him, and he fired a first shot to gauge proximity without killing him.
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Pontiac
Mich
Warren Branfield
Farmington
Clare
Ship Officers Unite in New Ocean Officers Conference
Five organizations representing masters mates pilots marine engineers wireless telegraphers and other ship employees join under the American Ocean Officers Conference. The consolidation aims to coordinate actions in the wage dispute with the American Steamship Owners Association. Some 24000 men are said to be represented.
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New York
American Steamship Owners’ Association
American Ocean Officers’ Conference
Packing House Burns at National Stock Yards
Fire destroyed the Morris and Company packing plant at the National Stock Yards in East St Louis. Officials estimate losses around 500000 dollars. As many as 2000 workers will lose their jobs, with the fire believed caused by crossed electric wires.
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East St. Louis, LL
Morris and Company, Packers
National Stock Yards
Wali
Catch Dangerous J. W. W. El Paso Prisoner Confesses with Red Army Ties
El Paso Texas inmate Cust Skaley serving short vagrancy sentence admits he is an officer of the Red Army in Russia. Police found Skaley's army commission with his photo and the signature of Leon Wroteky, war minister of the Soviet Union. Skaley says he has been in the United States for fifteen months and holds an I W W membership card.
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Tex
Cust Skaley
Jall
Red Army
Russia
United States
Skaley
Leon Wroteky
Poveet
Prussia
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