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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1920
Page
6
The fragment details irregular grain and commodity prices with marginal moves and widespread buyer caution. It notes mixed signals across futures, with some prices advancing and others sliding, reflecting unsettled trading and a dampened market tone.
Readable bits describe a love story and chorus from a song. The passage hints at rivalries and aid, with a chaotic, fragmented style implying a narrative focus on romance and conflict within a musical piece.
Trading notes from Toledo Chicago and Cincinnati report mixed activity in steel and leather, with rail labor tensions and bank stress weighing on corn and grain futures. Prices for livestock and grains slip amid broader market uncertainty as of May 18.
New York raws rise then ease as sugar and granulated prices shift. Chicago cattle and hog markets show steady to mixed bids with various weights and calf quality improving. sheep and lambs slow with modest declines across regions. Cleveland reports steady cattle reds and calves at 15 to 16 dollars.
An old advisory argues that most soaps and shampoos contain too much alkali, drying the scalp and making hair brittle. It recommends using Malsified coconut shampoo, pure and greaseless, cheap and long lasting, to cleanse hair and prevent dust and dandruff.
A 25 cent ad touts Nutelets as a superior spring aid that purifies the blood and tones the intestinal tract. It argues ordinary spring tonics are unnecessary and claims the product relieves constipation and indigestion through natural channels.
The article reports a Senate committee debate over the nitrate program with claims of extravagant spending and tainted motives. Frank Washburn and Garrett defend associates while contending Baruch aided public interests and urging restraint in war costs. The majority accuses $116,194,0874 in costs and no wartime nitrate production before armistice, while critics say war expenditures were excessive and drafts overreached.
Four Findlay motion picture theater managers were arrested for opening shows last Sunday. Pastor Dr A A Hundley signed the warrants. This marks the fourth arrest since the venues began Sunday operations after two years closed. Previously they were bound over to the grand jury.
May 18 report shows wholesale meat prices dropped sixteen percent in the past year while the cost of nearly all other necessities increased. The bulletin comes from the Institute of American Meat Packers.
Notices posted in seven woolen mills announce a 15 percent wage increase affecting about 2,509 employees. The action, observed in Rockville Connecticut, indicates rising pay for mill workers.
The letter from Mrs E C Blackwell of 540 East Broad St Elyria tests Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney relief. She reports backache dizziness and irregular kidney action improved by the medicine and repeats her endorsement years later. Price 60 cents at dealers. FosterMilburn Co migr Buffalo NY ads.
Federal authorities disclose a 5000 pound sugar store found in a Toledo apartment basement. Warrants issued for Samuel J. Barnett and for grocers Michael Saba and Oscar Joseph who allegedly sold sugar at profits exceeding Palmer era limits. The hoarded sugar will be seized by federal court order. A separate notice says a lecture tonight is postponed to tomorrow due to pictures sponsored by the Student Volunteer Association.
Eli Whitehead, day clerk at the Colonial Hotel Warren, reports losing weight and energy until taking two bottles of Dreco the Great Root and Herb Tonic. He says his bowels improved appetite returned sleep deepened headaches faded catarrh eased and he gained ten pounds. Dreco is advertised as a vegetable remedy boosting digestion liver and kidney function and easing nervousness.
Mrs Alma White leads a campaign condemning women’s attire as provoking sin and crime, urging plain dress as biblical duty. She opened a "Fire of Prayer" mission in Westminster and contrasts English modesty with alleged New York excesses.
May 15 Chicago reports Agnes Procter sixty six long time leading woman with ELH Sothern in Dandreary David Garrick and other plays died at a city hospital yesterday She was stepdaughter of George Kunkle the original Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin and had retired from the stage several years ago.
Self care guidance for piles claims at home with Mrs Summers Pile Suppositories. Promises speedy relief and recovery with a free trial. Advises readers to ask a druggist or read today for information from The Sommers Medical Company of South Bend Indiana.
Nicholas Bogan and J H Ludin deputy marshals were released on $300 bonds each after arrest in Berlin Center near Youngstown. They pleaded not guilty to a prohibition violation after authorities found two truckloads of whiskey camouflaged as broom shipments, with a third truck breaking down and revealing the evidence.
In New York City the export trade loss to Philadelphia Baltimore and other western ports reaches eighty percent as shippers seek to dodge harbor and railroad strike congestion. Some authorities warn permanent port shifts unless tension eases. In Youngstown traffic improves and another blast furnace restarts as Erie Railroad lifts embargoes, adding crews to handle demand.
Vote General announced changes at work and no word from the strikers publicity committee for over three weeks. Brotherhood men efforts to convene meetings have been blocked, according to union officials.
The Cincinnati daylight saving ordinance, approved by voters, is on trial in supreme court to determine if charter cities may adopt times other than central standard time for city offices. Also notes release of whiskey shipments seized near Delaware Kentucky valued at $125000 and involving Frankfort purchases.
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