Record of Stock Auction Trends at Kansas City Yard
Eight thousand cattle arrived for the market with sales steady to 10 higher and active trading led by top steers at 10.25. Hogs 10.50 top, 10 to 20 higher. 10,500 received. Sheep and lamb prices rose with two lots at 13.25 a new high. yearlings and udders noted. Colorado cows and Nebraska loads featured strong demand. porkers and stockers also firm. A separate note reports a Omaha jury conviction for Wild Horse sales fraud.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Scottsbluff
Neb
Colorado
Arizona
J. A. Rickart
English Founder of Turkish Navy’s Notable Sailor
Hobart Pasha, an English sailor born in the Victorian era, helped seed the Turkish navy. Retiring in 1863, he became a blockade runner during the American conflict, then joined Turkish service. He intercepted Greek-supplied Cretan munitions, rebuilt the fleet, and was made marshal. He died in 1886.
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Hobart Pasha
Greece
Hobart Pasna
Devil's Bible in Stockholm Royal Palace Library
The Devil's Bible, a vast 60 page manuscript on 300 asses' skins, is kept in Stockholm's Royal Palace library. Traditions claim it took centuries to produce or was completed in one night by a monk aided by Satan, who left a frontispiece portrait of himself. It was allegedly carried to Sweden from a Prague convent during the Thirty Years' War.
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Royal Palace
Stockholm
Sweden
Prague
Spiritual music and discords in unison say Jaryle
The Ohio State Journal notes that spiritual music arises from divine love shaping discords into harmony. Those who avoid opposition miss the test of virtue and courage. Accept discord as a test, restore harmony through living faith, not argument.
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Jaryle
Ohio State Journal
The Wolf and the Shepherd Aesop Fable
A wolf follows a flock for long without harming them. The shepherd, growing to trust him as a guardian, leaves his sheep in the wolf’s care while away. The wolf then attacks and destroys most of the flock, exposing the shepherd’s misplaced trust.
Restful sleep remedies from a famous English physician
Advice for insomnia suggests simple remedies before narcotics or stimulants. A quoted English physician says bread and milk with a pinch of salt drawn from head to stomach quiets nerves and promotes rest, with nine out of ten patients sleeping soundly. A cold orange at bedtime is also noted for sedative and stimulating qualities and high efficacy.
Unromantic III and the Romantic Sneeze
A curious satire imagines historic lovers and leaders beset by colds and sniffles during famous moments. Cleopatra, Antony, Henry V, and Juliet are pictured pausing to sneeze or blow their noses as cold weather and discomfort intrude on dramatic scenes. The piece mocks romantic tropes by placing them in mundane bodily annoyances.
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Cleopsra
Antony
Caesar
Henry V
Agincourt
Juliet
Romeo
Verona
Great European University and Its German Roots
The Great European University founded by Gus tavus Adolphus in 1632 featured an observatory anatomical theater and a 12,000-plant botanical garden. Its 250,000-volume library sits in a restored cathedral space and it shifted from German to Russian influence by 1895, with many noted German scientists teaching at Yurtel before nationalization.
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Gustavus Adolphus
Europe
Yurtel
Convincing Argument Elects Village Baseball Captain
In an Illinois village a large field of candidates vie for the captaincy of the junior baseball team. The owner’s son, a small freckled boy, declares he will be captain or his father’s old bull will be turned into the field. The youths elect him unanimously.
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Olinois
Geld
Ancient Sumerian Deluge Epic Found in University Museum
Record of Great Events describes a 1000 years before Moses era tablet with a poetic version of the deluge and original sin assigned to man. The fragment, deciphered by Dr. Stephen Langdon of Jesus College, Oxford, highlights an enigmatic language of a vanished people and Noah cited for the first sin.
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Moses
Noah
Adam
Nipper
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Stephen Langdon
Jesus College
Oxford
England
Familiar Story From the Biography of a Failure
A Kansas City Star note profiles a man who built a local reputation through business but failed in multiple elections from Congress to town offices. Repeatedly urged to run in sheriff constable marshal and other posts, he was repeatedly defeated by friends in human form. He later fell into crime and alcohol and was found dead behind a stable.
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Ittery Stable
Kansas City Star
Indians hold Oregon in fierce war after isolation
Oregon sits isolated as Indians gather for battle and control the plains corridor. Three months of cut telegraph lines and threatened mail routes leave communication with the East blocked except for escorted crossings. The Indians show no sign of retreat or ceasefire, maintaining the field with savage warfare.
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Oregon
Plains
Portland
Oregonian Fm
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