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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
7
A tortured diary style narrative blends romance with hardship as a narrator recalls near drowning under a bridge, bathing banishment, and awkward attempts at courtship. The piece then shifts to wistful reflections on love, mortality, and a world filled with sweetness, vows, and memory, ending with grim imagery of a cemetery.
A social page recounts a pleasant birthday party for Mint Carrie Orlank at her Kurt Farming Street home with a large guest list and a four o clock dinner. Attendees include Miss Florence Cuv ele and Mister Helen Behiller, Mae Cillanan, and other named guests. after dinner bridge was played and prizes awarded. The piece also notes a Musical Assembly club gathering, embroidery afternoon, and a twelfth birthday celebration for Mr Wout Blair at North Sefmer Avenue with games and light refreshments.
The Knights of Colonne held their annual picnic at Marion park on Wednesday afternoon. About thirty five couples enjoyed boating and a ball game, with dancing until late. The social committee Frank Stoll William Moloney Ames Weleh organized a successful event.
The text describes a Swedish chemist Dr Ekenborg's dry milk invention enabling milk powder to reconstitute with water. It also quotes Scribner's Magazine on caribou swimming, noting their oily wool, cork-like coat, and strong paddling ability up to about six miles per hour in open water.
In a witty aside from wartime chatter, Gen Sir Redvers Buller is praised as an exceptional cook, joked to struggle for a West End chef post, while Rodgers Buller allegedly could improvise a dinner from old saddles when rations were tight. A third officer shares the playful praise of their culinary gifts.
A rustic birth celebration in Cumberland England features a mixture called rum batter with butter sugar rum and flour. Guests offer a bite for weeks after the event and declining it is rude. Other items note rats eating, elephants restless at London Zoo, and railroad upgrades in Chicago with a $200 million forecast. Climate anecdotes describe rare gales and wind patterns with little smoke.
Market notes show steady cattle and hog receipts in Omaha and Cleveland areas with mixed to light demand. Hogs and sheep trade varies, with prime prices around 6.00 to 7.00 for yorkers and lighter stock. Chicago grain futures edge, wheat July near 89 and September around 27 to 28, opening states and closing ranges.
Fragmented trading notes show opening and closing figures with several numbers, dates and codes unreadable. The text references openings at various timestamps and stock or index values, but lacks coherent subjects, entities, or outcomes to form a concrete market event or named participants.
Grain prices from Toledo show cash and futures quotes across corn oats and wheat with figures in cents and dollars. The New York letter reports shipments on packages, creamery products, tubes, and receipts with varied valuations and general activity in markets.
Corrected daily prices from Marlow Mill Grain Co and Chas Turner show wheat at 90 cents per bushel, corn and other grains listed with varying per unit costs. Selling prices include butter at 22 cents per pound, lard at 14–18 cents, and assorted staples such as rice, navy beans, and corn meal with unit amounts and bulk options noted.
A local notice lists flour prices including Flour Th P Marlon 1-4 bbl at 1.50 and Monarch 1-4 bbl at 1.40, Knickerbocker 1-4 bbl at 1.99, Carnation 1-4 bbl at 1.40, Gold Medal 1-4 bbl at 1.70, Golden Wake 1-4 bbl at 1.40, with other brand entries noted.
A fragmented excerpt presents garbled lines about a haunting scene and a confused narrator. The text mixes garbled phrases and misread words, mentioning whitened gutters and a sense of time, but lacks coherent narrative or clear references to people or events.
Two female pickpockets in Paris employed a mechanical parasol device with a spring snipping water chains to steal from victims. They targeted personal effects, with one thief caught red handed after being followed by a detective.
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