Markets See Prices Dip Across Commodities And Livestock
The report shows mixed to lower prices across hogs cattle and grain in Chicago Des Moines Milwaukee and surrounding markets. Hog prices declined with receipts around 3 000 head and bids around 6 6 to 7 1 per cwt while cattle and calves faced softer values and steady to lower demand. Grain futures and cash markets in wheat corn oats and rye posted assorted moves with cash wheat around 1 19 to 1 25 per bushel and corn near 63 1 2 cents per yield.
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Ards
Chicago
OGS
Lesterday
Orpak
Enthan
Texas
Olty
Market i City
Ain Y
A New and Interesting Gown For 1920s Fashion
A one piece model features the newest design elements and adjustable fit. The gown emphasizes ease of construction and simple alteration, appealing to home dressmakers and fashion followers of the era.
May Manton describes a simple raglan gown design
The article discusses a comfortable one gown style by May Manton. It highlights buttons and buttonholes for a clean closing and mentions fabrics like silk and satin trims. Readers are guided toward an easy, practical sewing project suitable for home makers.
Aberdeen Port of Missing Men
Aberdeen, S D faces culled attention as a port of missing men with Gardner Spittler, a groom‑to‑be, and J D Walker missing from December 16 and October 15 respectively. Spittler, a locomotive engineer from Huron to Crandall, vanished after buying two dozen white roses for his intended bride Ima Lawson. Walker, son of J D Walker, disappeared after banking and parceling his personal effects, last heard from October 15. Descriptions match witnesses, but no clues yet.
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Aberdeen
S. D
Gardner
Spittler
Huron
Crandall
Ima Lawson
G. W. Hurst
Hurst
Chicago
Candall
Robert Lee Walker
J. D. Walker
Carlsbad
N. D
Young Walker
Mott, N. D
First National Bank
Mott
Walker
Dickinson
N. C
Sheriff Shaffer
Servians of Lead Depart for War
Fifteen Servians, the largest single group from here since the war began, sailed for their homeland to fight Austria. They traveled to New York where about 4000 fellow countrymen are said to favor the same cause. Among them 800 hail from Butte district. They say they pay their own way and go of their own free will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
New York
Butte District
Tax Commission After Revision
The first biennial report of the state tax commission outlines two years of work and offers recommended legislation to improve the tax system. It includes six proposed constitutional amendments and a new tax code to replace conflicting statutes, aiming to provide annual reporting rather than only biennial reviews.
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Pierre
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Indians in British Troops Rated by German Officer
Amsterdam dispatch reports a German officer praising Indian soldiers in the British ranks. He recalls three days of shelling and chaotic assaults by brown troops described as fierce and terrifying, contrasting with German morale and enemy perception.
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Amsterdam
Associated Press
Frankfurter Zeitung
Britain
Otto
Fragments of Combat in a Trench Encounter
Descriptive wartime passage describes brown enemies advancing into trenches, fighting with butt-ends bayonets swords and daggers. The narrator notes fierce effort and hard work until reinforcements arrived and drove the attackers from the trenches.
Charity Gifts Reach 315 Million in 1914 Across nation
The 1914 donations to educational and charitable institutions totaled about 315 million dollars with New York state contributing over 114 million to war relief. Notable gifts included Rockefeller’s funding for medical and other projects, Carnegie’s peace and education gifts, and Mrs. Carnegie’s memorial hospital support.
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New York City
New York State
United States Naval
Jason
John D. Rockefeller
Harry Payne Whitney
France
Flanders
United States
Rockefeller
Fredy
John Db. Rockefeller
University of Chica- 20
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Grand Chenier
Louisiana
Stevene Institute
American National Red Cross Fund
Washington
American Academcy
Rome
American Red Cross
Salvation Army
Empress of Ireland
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Vandergilt University
Carnegie Institute of Technology
New York Association For the Blind
New York Zoological Garden
Aquarium
Ast Orange
N.J
Babies’ Hospital
New York
Campbell
Aiso
James Campbell
St. Louis
Medical Department
St. Louis University
West
Institutions of Learning
Rabbit hunts drive winter sport across western Iowa
In western and central Iowa two teams led by captains hunted rabbits with a supper prize and loser's cost. A recent Ottumwa Stanley County hunt produced about a thousand rabbits loaded on a four horse team bound for Midland and shipped east, with no evident rabbit shortage.
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Pierre
Ottumwa
Stanley County
Midland
Socialist Sent to Join Colors in Germany
Paris reports L Humanite says the German government ordered Karl Liebknecht to report to his regiment after he opposed a war appropriation in the Reichstag and questioned alleged German outrages in Belgium. Liebknecht, forty four, faced treason fears as a motive for assignment.
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Paris
France
L'Humanite
Karl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Belgium
Gerany
Germany
L' Humanite
Liebknecht
Begs to Die Now Hails Life After Recovery
Mrs. Wm. B. Squier of Atco New Jersey, once thought dying from an incurable tumor, reports renewed health after medical help and a public plea two years ago. Her Christmas letter recalls the world’s kindness and the bliss of restored health for her and her husband, a retired Presbyterian minister. Dr King’s New Discovery is advertised as a remedy for colds with testimonials and price.
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Philadelphia
Wm. B. Squier
Atco
N. J
Dr. King
Strikers Ordered to Quit Cottages Amid Widespread Evictions
Notices were issued to about 2,590 striking miners in Jefferson City and neighboring counties to pay ten months rent owed to coal companies by January 15 under threat of eviction. UMWA officers planned to seek court restraining orders to halt writs affecting 16,000 miners in Belaire and Belmont regions.
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Stubenwyile
Jefferson City
Warren
Mt. Pleasant
Smithfield
Springfield
Belaire
Belmont
United Mine Workers of America
Kentucky Moonlight Schools Battle Ignorance
Women in Kentucky spearhead a statewide literacy drive aiming to educate every adult. Volunteers, including 2000 teachers, plan a $20000 campaign after census showed low state schooling, focusing on eastern mountain regions with home night schools to teach reading and writing.
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Kentucky
United States
Corn Wilson Stewart
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Mitchell, S. D
Dakota
Uae
Iawel Ayet
Northwestern
Northern
Montana
May Manton
DCYTY
Wandering Stars
Northwest
America
Rockefell
South Dakota
Liebknecght
VER
Law
John” Hatfield
Ninty
Moonlight School
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