Weekly Grain Market Review August 30 Market Movements
The corn market remained firm through the week ending August 30 with September futures up about 40 cents at Chicago. Wheat showed early weakness but rallied late on export demand, near last week's close. Oats stayed strong amid corn support, while rye benefited from increased export sales to France and Germany. Flour sales and milling demand improved, barley traded quietly then firmed, and flax premiums to Sept price fell at Minneapolis.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Chicago
France
Germany
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Learn to drive a car says ap wute Journal
A shortened, garbled notice reflects an editor’s quip about drivers and behind the wheel behavior. The fragment references the Baltimore Sun and a Journal style remark about learning to drive. The exact details are unclear due to the damaged text.
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Ap Wute Journal
Baltimore
Nerve Indeed The Pelve of Dat Gay Outburst
A fragment from the Novy Log captures a comic boast where a speaker rejects a six dollar weekly offer, quipping at being mistaken for a college graduate. The tone satirizes pretension and working life with playful dialect.
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Novy Log
Voting procedures in San Juan Puerto Rico described
The note claims voters are marked on the back of the right ear with indelible ink to prevent repetition. It alleges some voters obtained ink eradicators to distribute to others, enabling multiple votes.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Dippers Pointer Tee Stare Described in Aide Handle Terms
A fragment describes terms in a pole vault style game with pointers named the dippers pointers and a tee stare near the handle. The archaic phrasing suggests a technical glossary entry for equipment or technique in a sport. Names and context are unclear due to damaged text but the focus is on terminology surrounding the dipper and pointers.
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Natnt
Airplane Experiments Test Rescue Crew Carrying in Alabama
Experimental trials continue in Alabama to assess aircraft adaptability for lifting rescue crews and equipment. Researchers aim to prove utility of planes for rapid response and equipment transport in emergency operations.
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Alabama
Wives Beat Husbands Court Rules on Domestic Beating
An Austrian Supreme Court decision states that when a wife beats her husband the act is a natural reaction to provocation. The article notes the court’s view on violence within marriage and cites related commentary from social industry.
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Husherds
Toon
Supreme
Poust
Jumbo the famous elephant sold to Barnum for ten thousand
Jumbo the Afgean elephant stood about one half feet six inches tall and spent twenty five years in exhibition at the royal zoological gardens to London before being purchased by P T Barnum, the American circus proprietor, for ten thousand dollars.
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Royal Zoologeal Gardens
Lansom
P. T. Barnum
Advertising Pays Off with Steady Newspaper Ads
Advertising should be tried. one or two insertions may bring returns, but steady advertising builds steady business. Newspaper ads create friendly customers who return and support the business.
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Olt
Republican platform backs child labor protection and wage
Mrs Hert credits Republicans with leading national child labor legislation and rapid adoption of Coolidge's recommended protections. The platform urges state legislatures to ratify and consider amendments, arguing nationwide safeguards will aid working women and raise living standards while promising continued prosperity under Coolidge and Dawes with a Republican House.
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Republican Party
Campaign For Nations
Hert Wld
Republican
Com Freee
Coolidgs
Congress
Coolidge
Dawes
Howe
Women urged to mobilize voters on registration day
The piece notes that only about 29 percent of eligible women voted in 1920, roughly one in four. It cites a state with 3,462,479 voters and 2,000,468 cast ballots, leaving 1,372,411 who did not vote, and reports a Republican women’s bureau appeal from Chicago to rally eligible voters in families.
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Women's Bureau
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Hies
Etvte
Butter in Germany Prewar and Wartime Shifts
Germany used nearly as much butter as margarine before the war, but since the war the two fats have practically swapped positions with butter sales declining and margarine rising.
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Germany
Glycerine Mixture for Stomach Ailments and Poisons
A historical remedy claims glycerine mixed with buckthorn bark and herbs acts on both upper and lower bowel within ten minutes. It is promoted as clearing gates and poisons from the system and is described as excellent for stomach issues and related ailments.
Obstinate Constipation Guards Against Appendicitis
Draggists Ady and the firms Boring Bros. and Dillingham advertise remedies for obstinate constipation touted to guard against appendicitis. The snippet lists these suppliers as providers of laxatives and patent medicines.
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Boring Bros. & Dillingham
Draggists
Ady
Scandal Sparks Threats Between Two Figures
A heated exchange escalates with accusations and threats. One party warns of violence and using dogs if refused, signaling a tense dispute between Secsutek and Lemberg. No further context is provided.
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E.R. Waite
Shawnee, Oklahoma
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Secsutek
Lemberg
Filer, Idaho
Fred St. Clair
Southland
Rev
Twin Falls County Fair
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