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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
6
Chicago markets report deferred corn futures at 60 1 2 and 62 1 2 cents with heavy selling on gains. Wheat and oats show gains while cattle and hogs move higher. receipts favor cattle with top prices around 6 15 for 1325 lb westerns. Pork prices rise later. beef and dairy items listed alongside regional grain and produce quotes.
Professor Edward L. Thorndike reports experiments showing monkeys learn by selection of impulses and associations rather than imitation. He argues they share core mental traits with humans and occupy a middle position between other animals and humans in senses, movements, instincts, and learning. No Illinois paper matches Journal value for subscribers.
A slim collection of wry lines shows an insurance agent pressing a widow about her future life after her husband's death. The conversation spotlights a sharp wife who could "cop out another husband in a month." Other quips reference a wife unable to speak to an editor and a society reporter labeling her a last century bud.
A collage of era quips and gibes shows reporters quoting mock protests and blurred speech. Fragments from Chicago Record Detroit Free Press Washington Star Philadelphia Record and others capture humorous misstatements and sharp retorts.
Globetrotte recounts staying in a full inn with a haunted room. He awoke to unseen presences each night, but when the light was on nothing was there. He avoided telling the landlord to avoid being charged double for lodging.
Humorous quip shows a Chicago Record reader recalling sitting on cats in rocking chairs. The exchange highlights playful rural humor in early 20th century newspaper tone.
There is a claim that ample money exists in the country but is hard to reach. The text proposes a service that connects people with money by offering loans secured by chattels such as furniture pianos horses wagons livestock.
Officers include H. A. Ainsworth president Geo H Edwards vice president and F G Allen cashier Directors include A S Wright Porter Skinner Geo H Edwards H A Ainsworth and G Skinner other names appear in the board list.
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