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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1929
Page
15
A liberal cattle run at Union Stock Yards on Feb 20 1929 pushed markets higher with beef steers and cows up about 25c. The report lists wide price ranges for cattle including good to choice steers 11.50 to 13.00, yearlings 12.25 to 13.50, and several categories of cows, calves, and stockers with detailed prices and receipts of about 4000 head.
About 12,500 hogs were on the market as buyers showed keen demand from focal packers and order buyers. Prices nudged up around 10.25 cents per pound versus Monday, with bulk trading at 9.80 to 10.10 and prime butcher weights reaching up to 10.15.
Fat lambs eased slowly on light demand with prices down 15 to 25 cents from the prior day. Fat lambs ranged from 15.50 to 16.00 for fed westerns, natives 15.25 to 15.75, and spring lambs 12.00 to 14.25. Feeder lambs brought 15.00 to 15.75, west feeders 13.75 to 15.00, and western fair to common 12.00 to 13.75. Fat ewes sold 6.50 to 9.35 with culls to 3.00 and feeding ewes 4.0 to 4.97.15. Receipts 12,000 head.
The Pathfinder Magazine questions a myth that monkeys form a human bridge to cross streams. While monkeys sometimes cling to each other or pull one another, positive knowledge of bridge-building is lacking. Dr. William M. Mann links the tale to spider monkey maneuvers in South America. In local notes, Cha May Campfire Girls plan a theatre and Dutch treat party with recent meetings by Jane Dimery and Thelma Ladegard, focusing on summer encampment.
Dr. Burnette Miller of Wellesley College, the first American allowed into the Seraglio harem, completed a detailed study of its hidden life. With Turkish assistance she explored hundreds of rooms, noting a peephole to the harem, a golden lattice window to the women’s prayer room, and a sealed sanctum guarded by officials and perpetual Qur’an prayers.
In Los Angeles a new teaching method aids deaf children to speak and "hear" through lip reading spelling writing reading tongue gymnastics and vibration awareness Music is used to stimulate sound perception The program aims to reduce sign language reliance and teaches precise tongue placement and breath for speech Ten sound combinations have been mastered by students at the UCLA demonstration school.
Field laboratories in Yiukima and Wenatchee, Washington, opened by the Department of Agriculture to develop a poison superior to lead arsenate for the coddling moth. Local orchardists cooperate, seeking a deadly-to-moth but human-safe poison that requires no washing or storage-damaging treatments.
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