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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
7
The text contrasts French life with wariness of state control. It portrays a rigid system from birth through schooling and military service, followed by strict supervision. It notes the lack of papers for many citizens and the pervasive reach of police and rural guards in everyday mobility.
An OCR mosaic blends a literary excerpt about wartime vagabonds and a vivid farm memory with fashion notes on 1920s styles. It then shifts to a comic domestic scene where Mr. Lambert scolds his wife over expenses, only to wake from a dream and confront reality. The pieces mix literature, fashion commentary, and a domestic farce with no clear single event.
Partial OCR appears to mash dialogue and misread names across papers from Kansas City Times and Houston Post. The garbled text shows references to Sir Toby and Sir John Weller Almont, with incomplete phrases about running a word through and prompting a response, highlighting OCR corruption rather than coherent news.
Mrs Harry Rice of Marion Ohio recounts how her husband suffered long with backache and kidney pain until he used Doan's Kidney Pills from Plocken's Pharmacy. After a few days relief followed and continued use regulated kidney action. She also notes success in treating a child’s nocturnal enuresis. FosterMilburn Co sole U S agents. Remember the name Doan's.
The New York Tribune notes fashion prophecies for spring detailing very high bowed collars as chief. embroidered and lace cuffs return. velleting dots and chenille dots rise in ultra styles. predominant colors and two fabrics, resemble enshimere nod lik poplin, are favored for dressy costumes.
The article notes that over six million French women work including many married, and that large families are taxed lightly in France. It mentions Vauvert's plan to erect a Montecalm statue in Quebec and a Frenchman Leviril leaving his fortune to his village for annual men only suffrage memorial banquets.
A fragmented record lists peculiar sovereign allowances and prohibitions. It notes Abyssinian royalties wearing an earring in the left ear, Persia allowing a sink to drive white horses with scarlet tails, the German emperor alone permitted to smoke a Havana cigar with a green and gold band, and Madagascar forbidding kite heights rivaling royal ascents.
Sparrows hate blue, a whale can stay underwater for one and a half hours, and the average whale bone frame weighs about forty-five tons. Snakes are shortsighted unable to see beyond a quarter of their length. Toads lay about eleven thousand five hundred eggs per year, yet only one in a thousand becomes a toad.
Market notes show cattle and sheep receipts with lambs firm and hog prices up. Veal receipts at 260 head. lambs 6 400 forward. yearlings 7.25 to 7.00. mixed sheep 2.76 to 6.25. hog receipts 2.040, prices up about 26 cents.
Receipts at Union Stock Yards Illinois show cattle about 7000 with higher market and mixed quality, hogs around 25000 receipts and higher trend, sheep and lambs at 14000 receipts with strong market. Kansas City, Cleveland and Pittsburgh listings accompany varied prices for calves, hogs, and sheep, outlining regional demand and price ranges for today and estimated tomorrow.
Reports show firmer opening bids and limited gains as winter wheat damage claims rose. May, July, and September contracts traded with narrow ranges while old styles declined slightly. No 2 yellow and white prices mixed. Provisions held steady with minimal change as market digested weather signals.
In Toledo market notes, various grain quotes appear for the day including wheat futures around 48s and 78s, with September and May positions in play. Corn cash activity shows May and September bids, alongside assorted futures and cash prices for timothy and cloverweed hay.
A garbled New York produce item lists multiple vague terms, mentioning Marek Hatier Receipin and Creamery while noting quantities like 24 800 spackeagons. The fragment references 28 and 19 20 figures and a steady rate but lacks clear context or coherent facts.
Grain prices corrected show Wheat at 20 per bushel Corn at 0 per bushel Rye at 0 per bushel Clover Beet 12.00 per bushel Timothy 2.00 per bushel Hungarian Seed 600 per bushel Market names and prices indicate updated figures for grain trades and seed stocks in the region.
Corrected daily prices list butter onions potatoes lard and other goods with buying and selling rates. Includes cash prices per unit such as butter 20 cents per pound and potatoes 70 cents per bushel, plus beans rice flour and dried fruit pricing. Names Turner & Co appear in the market note.
Flour and grain prices listed for Marion suppliers including Th. P. of Marion one to four barrels at 1.00, Clover Leaf fourteen barrels at 1.60, Monarch Moor fourteen barrels at 1.20, Gold Medal fourteen barrels at 1.70 and other items with varied rates.
Short evening employment opportunity offered by Marion Business College under President Crin. Advertisement touts favorable wind for a practical business path and urges interested individuals to call BRoug for details. Mentions local newspaper chatter about social topics and humorous quips from various columns.
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