Speculators Drive Wool Market Outlook in 1923
Traders contract ahead of shearing using price forecasts while growers gamble on markets. After a 1920 crash prices fell to around fourteen cents for Nevada wools in 1921, then recovered through 1922 aided by tariff protection and rising consumption. Boston and London markets signal higher prices as Fall clips in Texas and California fetch top rates, while Nevada's John G. Taylor clip draws a high offer.
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Boston
London
California
Texas
Bruday and Emery
Mass
John G. Taylor
Fire drill realism hits Chicago public schools in blast scare
A theater style bomb explosion causes simulated panic in Chicago school drills. No actual fire, but students experience a flood of smoke and confusion while staff report calm, orderly exits and strong conduct during the exercise.
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Grilla
Chicago
Max Harding Finds Love At The Long Hot Hotel
Max Harding, a dusty city youth, arrives at a hotel where a pompous porter bars front entry. He rooms, bathes, and meets Anus Cabot at dinner, a kitchen-helper-turned-cook who impresses his mother. The two exchange glances and begin a budding romance as Max learns Miss Cabot will replace the departing cook.
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Max Harding
Peddiers
Wrandly
Stoud
Tim
Bo Max
Max
Jovelioat
Anus Cabot
Mrs. Harding
Katie
Miss. Cabot
Marion Talley rises to fame with Met audition in New York
Fifteen year old Marion Talley, grandchild of a German vocalist, astonishes critics after an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House with Otto H. Kahn and Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Her Kansas City upbringing grounds her, as a $10,000 charity fund aided her education and outside offers surge.
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Germany
Kansas City
Marion Talley
Otto H. Kahn
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Metropol Opera House
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Giulio Gatti-Casass
Metropolitan
Crowell
Opera House
Sunday Supplement
Florence
Marion
Melted Cross and New Population Center Highlight 1900s Census
Snow melts from the Mount of the Holy Cross in Colorado, a sight noted by the oldest residents as the cross becomes visible. A new U.S. population center has moved west to Allen County, Indiana, propelled by foreign-born whites in California, Texas, and Arizona. Other items mention a proto-poragraph device combining dictation and telephony, kiss clinics for marital woes, and trains with roof lights offering scenic views as dynamos power the cars.
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Mount of the Holy Cross
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United States
Allen County
Indiana
New Haven
Fort Wayne
Calfornia
Texas
Arizona
America
Chicago
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