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Newspaper
Piqua Daily Press
Location
Piqua, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1917
Page
3
Toledo notes steady to lower prices across grains with cash corn and wheat receipts, and softening demand. Wheat and flour exports rise while grain exchanges face scrutiny. clover and timothy markets show mixed prices and robust imports to offset domestic shortages.
Market notes list feed prices at Osborns including hay 3.50 per 100 pounds, bran at 1.25, baying price around 3.00, potatoes at 1.30, winter wheat flour at 1.50 per pound, sugar cured ham 2.28, storage pigs, butter 0.45, lard 0.22 per unit, creamer butter 0.235. Information appears in a fragmented local market listing with several garbled terms.
The page lists per peck potato prices and per bush offerings for AO Potatoes, plus various grain prices such as Wheat and Rye. Hogs sections show corrected daily prices for Medium to Heavy Yorkers, sows, stags, and choice heaviest hogs, along with cattle and veal calf pricing.
Market report lists cattle steers hogs lambs sheep and calves with varied bids and receipts. Prices appear per hundredweight or head in multiple cities including Cleveland Cincinnati Baltimore and Toledo, noting values such as fat steers around 17.50 and lambs near 12 to 13, plus assorted grains wool and provisions.
Willow Camp No 145 Woodmen of the World elected P C C Walter Stephens C C O B Rice A L Cromes Clerk A L Pence Banker Joe Zink Escort A A Creager Watchman L Munger Sentry G C McCowan Trustee three years Walter Stephens Dr Hetherington and Dr Prince retain as camp physicians
A druggist recommends Pepsinco from personal experience, claiming it helps when food disagrees and relieves sour stomach, heart palpitations, sick headaches, bloating, and undigested food. Stop at the drug store to ask for a small package and follow directions.
Columbus, Dec. 11 Governor Cox urged President Wilson and Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield to authorize Ohio to seize and distribute coal on railroad sidings for immediate relief. The plan aims to move stalled coal from tracks, freeing empty cars for reloading, amid severe shortages and congestion.
Chicago educator and member of the Liberty Loan Committee Ella Flagg Young drives public support for war bond sales. Her leadership role highlights civic mobilization and efforts to fund national defense through financial contributions by residents.
Advices from Portugal report successful rebel seizure of Lisbon after several days of sanguinary fighting. Government appears briefly in control while unclear if Portugal will join the war. Rumors of German agents aiding sedition cited. fighting limited to Lisbon and nearby areas. In Erie, the ship Niagara broke from moorings in a gale, causing $15,000 damage to boats and fishhouses.
In Chillicothe Ohio on December 11 indoors events marked by severe weather as soldiers receive knitted helmets and dots from Red Grass and home folks while others use handkerchiefs to protect ears. In Columbus Blaine Raaf er faces possible electrocutation for the murder of his 11 year old sweetheart Augusta Sickies. governors may not intervene. In Cleveland Interurban Trainmen strike after wage demand denial, crippling northern Ohio transport. In Newark Walter Vivi arch dies rescuing a dog in a boarding house fire, later found suffocated. In Toledo federal court fifteen Worley county residents must pay eight dollars per ton for confiscated coal and fines for the coal taken.
Frank A. Vanderlip national director reports growing enthusiasm for the war savings plan after tours of New England and New York. He notes thousands of organized state and local groups promoting thrift and that February is designated Thrift Day in several states with steps likely to make it a national event. In Pittsburgh, extreme cold and gas shortages halt factories and affect schools with six deaths reported. An explosion on submarine A-2 injures and kills crew. Joseph Schaefer, 23, of Hastings Nebraska, dies from injuries.
Three large firms serving the UAL gas supply in the Pittsburgh district cut off flows to all industrial users. P. Green of Caldana county Michigan shot himself at the Pontiac court house. The sheriff’s death raises concern over office affairs. Texas 1907 franchise tax on out-of-state corporations was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Rev. William R Milston, 52, longtime Ludlow Baptist pastor, Latonia Kentucky, committed suicide by slashing his throat with a razor in a bathroom. health officials believe the act was the cause.
Columbus Ohio officials warn householders that hoarding food will be punished as severely as retailers. State Administrator Fred C Croxton says excess purchases beyond normal needs count as hoarding and outlines limits on flour sugar and canned goods. Penalties include a 5000 dollar fine and up to five years imprisonment. Cold storage eggs excess stocks urged to be sold for consumer use as meat substitutes.
Secretary McAdoo charged that pro Germans are behind liberty bond sales aimed at lowering their market value. He said he lacks jury evidence but believes any fair minded person would accept the claim as true.
Nearly 1,000 delegates attend the preconvention work of the fart minid sp. mua convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association as the formal opening approaches tomorrow.
The D C and P traction offers morning service at six o'clock and runs hourly until eleven at night.
In effect November 26 1917 the Pennsylvania Lines timetable shows westward and eastward trip times with a list of station codes and departure or arrival hours. The fragment includes multiple entries and numbers such as 60 and 103 12 02 a m 110 5 03 a m 27 3 06 a m 114 7 20 a m and 1808 4 34 a m, among others.
Schedule adjustments take effect Sunday December 2 with North Bound times listed and trains 51 and 62 discontinued. South bound services No 67 and others updated. several lines show new morning and late night departures.
Are Not Interested, Certaldo, a small Italian town near Florence, is famed as the probable birthplace of Boccaccio. The town honors him with a mill, a street, and a statue, yet remains focused on farming, especially onion production, while tourists savor the connection to modern literature.
The Ruby Council D. of A. hosts a Christmas bazaar dinner and supper in the old post office building room on Friday and Saturday December 14th and 15th. Home baking and cooking. A hearty welcome to all.
Mrs Thomas Lyons died Sunday night at her southwest Houston home aged 72. She left six sons one daughter and thirteen grandchildren. Funeral will be held Thursday morning with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery.
The funeral for Mrs Mary Dwyer is moved to 9 o'clock Wednesday morning instead of 8:30 at St Mary's church.
Rose Boley filed for divorce from John L Boley in Miami County Ohio cause 20359 on the grounds of adultery and gross neglect. She seeks custody of Thelma Boley and the hearing is set for on or after January 2, 1918. Edwin A Hiatt is attorney for Rose Boley.
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