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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
7
William H Ridgway presents a June 1908 Iron Rose Bible Class lesson at Coatesville Pa urging Bible study and moral caution. He warns about secret societies, drinking, and 'the gilded youth' while urging wakefulness and Christian conduct against evil influences in college life and society.
Ancient writers praised linen as the purest covering and superior for divine objects and wounds. The article notes linen’s cooler heat conduction, its nonirritating properties on wounds, and a newer linen dressing from North Brookfield, Mass. It discusses U.S. linen production and rising mills in Massachusetts to compete with European methods, aiming to reduce dependence on imported linen and lower costs.
In Cincinnati reports note a five pound candy prize hung for home rims by visiting players. Hugh Jennings argues country boys make better ball players than city bred chops. Harriman backs baseball, rooting for New York Highlanders. Claude Ritchey and Harry Boris discuss that good catchers are scarcer and that salaries will be hard to dictate soon.
Night work taps over 250000 people while Coney Island draws up to 900000 daily visitors. NYC retail employs 732 department stores with 10000 workers. Transient hotel population reaches 250000 daily. Belleview properties exceed 80000000 in value and No 1 Wall Street tops city price charts at just over 4 per square foot.
Eleanor Brownlee is revived after a graveyard ring theft attempt by Paul Anderson. He digs up the coffin to steal a diamond ring, triggers her revival by cutting the lid, and she reemerges as the husband confronts the truth. The family learns the attempted crime and the ring’s fate, ending with Anderson explaining he saved the ring’s owner to aid the children.
London medical authorities warn that used playing cards at bridge parties may carry deadly micro organisms. A Lancet article cited suggests cards handled repeatedly can soil with germs, potentially spreading colds and influenza among players. The piece also notes American hosts favor fresh, clean cards and recounts a mining anecdote about trout rearing and survival at Luton's estate pond.
Daily market notes show slow receipts across cattle hogs and lambs with limited activity. Sheep and lamb receipts around 1000 with steady tone. hogs at about 6.19 to 6.50 and cattle near 6.50 with rough handling and reduced volumes. Continuous market slowness persists through the day.
Cattle and sheep receipts are given with mixed pricing and market steadiness notes. Mentions Cleveland Ohio and general livestock movements with uncertain figures and unclear dates. No distinct outcome orHeadline-style event.
The market report details July September and December wheat contracts with opening and closing ranges, notes losses and gains, and records prices for soybeans, lard, and park commodities. Traders, led by activity in Chicago, show varied movement across futures with daily highs and lows listed.
A jumbled historical composite shows BT bd and Lowe WC pricing figures, September openings, and various grain and produce notes. Mentions of New York and Chicago markets include tea, wine, poultry, corn, oats, rye, and prices, with scattered ads and recruitment lines interspersed.
Corrected daily market prices list wheat corn rye and seeds by Marion Milling & Grain Co and Turner & Co. Prices shown include wheat per basket, corn per bushel, rye per bushel, various seeds per bushel or per bale, eggs lard potatoes popcorn butter cheese syrup vinegar and other commodities with per unit or per crate pricing. This item compiles the day’s selling prices for local growers and buyers.
Market listing shows several flour brands with small bundle sizes and per unit prices including Plour B P Manion at 1-4 barrels for 1.00, Loxal Tender 1-4 bits for 1.50, Monarch flour 1-4 bb1 at 1.40, Knickerborker 1-4 bi 1.40, Carnation white ft 50, Ot Rake light and Gold Medal Let UDI at 4.0, Golden Flake 1-4 vb at 4.0.
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