04 Aug 1939
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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1939
Page
1
A detailed livestock report lists receipts and prices across cattle hogs and calves. Prices range with top cattle at 1.80 for light weights and hogs around 6.76 to 9.75 per hundredweight. Overall salable totals show several thousand head across cattle and hog categories, with mixed demand and softer prices on lighter grades.
Fragmented OCR text shows grain and livestock price notes with unclear headings. Mentions Wheat and Grain markets with various percent adjustments and odd terms including Hogs prices and fed values, alongside dates and misc. figures. The readable content suggests a local market brief with commodity price updates and shifts in value.
Lorena Hamilton travels from Blanco toward Uncle George's Phantom Ranch to learn why killings loom. Shot Rogers assures safety, lends gear, and guides her through rugged frontier while Indians watch from the shadows. A sudden assault halts her ride, leaving her fate uncertain as the tale continues.
The column argues education should be an active, ongoing attitude of mind that stays fresh and vigilant for good. It laments a fatal view of life after missed experiences, cites a drowning tragedy as warning, and urges education to fuse duty with dreams, shaping a composite life beyond titles.
A wandering turkey disrupted traffic on the Whaliway, colliding with four autos and prompting drivers to slow and steer away. Police reported the scene as a strange holiday incident, with witnesses noting the bird’s bold wanderings and the ensuing delays.
A columnist laments rising federal debt and bank risk, arguing that government bonds justify money substitutes and threaten savers. Cites a woman losing her $4600 bank savings to risky bonds, warns insurers and bankers must accept responsibility, and links high debt to inflation and diminished purchasing power for deposits and policies.
The condition of Mrs Homer Cummings wife of the former attorney general was described by Washington physicians as precarious as her illness from high blood pressure worsened by a heart irregularity. The tarnished passage about faith and giving appears in the commentary.
A reader letter urges support for Uncle Joe Bosworth in Bell County politics, arguing legislative experience, road completion through Red Bird section, and related projects like Old Aged Pension and Workmen's Compensation reforms. The writer contrasts Bosworth with a green horn candidate, cites personal tenure, and requests consideration for Representative.
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