25 Aug 1880
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1880
Page
1
A lengthy general news item reports Asa Dow's 5000 barrel short sale of year pork at about $10, margins demanded by a broker likely linked to Armour & Co. Dow refuses, alleging fictitious prices and market manipulation. Pork closes at $12.25 a barrel and arbitration may follow.
The San Francisco Chronicle item reports on Texas cattle moving into Kansas, yields per acre extending beyond expectations, and various farming tips. It notes grain yields in Petaluma, pest issues like woolly aphid in San Jose, lime-water remedies, and drought management. It highlights horse and cattle care, quail crop damage, and significant farm outputs including dried prunes and peaches, with comparisons to mining outputs and a large Central California peach ranch.
Reports range from private Algeria efforts to breed ions for private use to measurements of continental erosion 2 feet in 7 000 years. Telegraph links to St Louis Senegal and Timbuced, drift ice in the North Atlantic, vast caverns near Wells England, and Arctic expeditions by Russian societies accompany notes on Egyptian excavations opposition and a 300 year old timepiece in New Jersey.
Reports from Silesia East and West Prussia describe widespread inundation and crop ruin. Potatoes and grain rot, acres of arable land submerged, and harvest prospects for rye wheat and barley greatly lowered amid heavy rainfall. relief appeals rise.
Advices from the south state that Chilian forces now about Lima total 30 000 men and may swell to 45 000. The garrison in Lima is 10 000 effective troops. Chilean detachments in Northern Peru burn plantations and sack towns while exports in the past four months exceed imports by 2 070 000.
Advertisement touts Bosches Geriagn Syrup as a worldwide remedy for coughs colds and serious lung diseases. It claims Dr Boscheo as German physician authorizes its use from infancy and cites unprecedented sales with no reported failures. Price listed as 75 cents for large size.
Tar Provo Woolen Mills increase output of cloths flamela jeans linseys blankets and other goods and ship to agent John C. Cutler in Salt Lake City. Buyers should inspect goods before sending east and avoid cotton in their fabrics.
A local ad promotes Dr Jaqne's Worta Cakes described as a healthful product for children. The item is sold by J. W. McNatt & Cody at 103.0 with claims of pleasant taste and strong health benefits for youngsters.
An advertisement touts White's Prairie Flower as a restorative for health vigor and dyspepsia. It claims rapid relief from coated tongue bad breath sick headache and torpid liver with instant relief from pains. It attacks patent medicines and notes trial sizes available at drug stores and wholesale agents.
A man previously miserable can now eat and be happy after using Brows Persix Tone which supplies active digestive principles. Relief is immediate. Sold by W Driver Yon and Company and D. Wo MeNute & Co.
SUILOMW FOROUS PLASTER advertised by J. W. McNutt Co as a wholesale and retail remedy. Price listed as 25 pts. Promoted through Logan and Ormaby with unclear endorsements.
A fragment mentions McCormick self binding machine near a new cooperative site. The garbled text references a person named Joan Wy Logern and an apparent agricultural setting with a historic tone.
Fragmentary text mentions places and names in a 1710 context with scattered terms Yeje Norge Bone Livinrot and Beotsea. The legible parts hint at a dated record or notice with multiple locations but lack a coherent event or clear subject. Further readable content is needed for a precise summary.
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