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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1908
Page
7
A fragmented collage of domestic vignettes and poems traces love, motherhood, and household life. It weaves between a wife’s worry, a child named Mary, a hen, and seasonal duties, with lilting verse about nature and yearning threading through.
The Woman's Keller Corp plans an afternoon meeting at Call with a good turnout expected. The Jackson club will hold a meeting on Democratic Road with Judge Brucker of Mansfield present to discuss securing a Marion delegation for the big vote. A fire department action at Query Street quelled a threatening blaze spreading through the day. Keigar, one year old, was hit by a toy wagon driven by a boy on West Columbia Street but survived. 8 S Langer has moved a coffin from Haber block to Leffler Block on South Main Street seeking new patients for eye ear nose throat care.
In London notes Wad Holdsheena headlines while Hall Caine teams with Louis Parker on a new play titled Dote. Flicky Selwyn's leading woman in Fierro of the Vlath is Elate Vernonen. Mine Melba heads to New York next season as Hammerstein announces the debut of a new form titled Pay Lowest of the Low.
Fragmented lines describe a funeral of hope and paralyzed energy. The text evokes sorrow weighing on purpose, comparing struggle to a Waterloo of hope and the dead weight of discouragement on progress. Names, places, or concrete events are not provided.
The article notes fashion frills and fall salting, warning against overreliance on new fancy fabrics. It says autumn textiles reuse older materials under new names, with old fabrics selling better. Broadcloth and smooth finish cloths appear, Mussah lighter than navy, and Hovelties and Huseah blue discussed, with New York Post as source.
A clipped aphoristic note from an old Globe column mocks those who preach change without acting. It contrasts the sincerity of effort with audience perception and warns against insincere optimism about aging and capability.
New York City savings banks gain about 1.40 dollars per dollar oil out as a large share of financial activity shifts. The draft notes 70,000 acres of space in Manhattan and highlights gender diversity in club memberships. A controversial request in New York asks for a nickel to settle a grim fate while death rates dip compared with last year and weekly earnings hover near two ten dollars.
A sensational tale recounts Signor Bite era exhibitions across the United States and a savage ordeal in which the medicine man Blitz uses trickery to pretend powers. He tests a chief with iron weight and a pistol bluff, then rescues Rodman’s wife and children amid a raid, driving off with wagons as astonished Indians watch.
A string of brief household and social updates lists Mr Clifton Tidd and Mr Clark Wrights weekend plans in Delaware and Dittis Day, travels to New York City, visits to St. Louis, Akron and Buffalo, and various family events. Local residents attend fairs, funerals, school and college events, and township affairs. Readers learn about residents’ movements, visits, and civic roles through short notes and reminders.
Ruth Pirner hosted a lively Saturday evening at her Mt Vernon Avenue home with numerous friends. The informal event featured corn and marine shows on the lawn as Michel Telen Rorenberg Marguerite Krause Mitdw Garberson Stell Ivans Mildred Dembaugh Donna Ruth Cris singer Mowutle Sivelita Olga Morganthaler Hazel Leffler Izabeth Hopkins Mildred Lair Gorldine Tord Hoge King Hope and mith attended.
Dwele Fisher and Mies Newhall of Altoona and Jon Sargent along with a group including Harry Anlette Eugene Gott den and others attended a six oclock dinner at North State Street residence Saturday evening. Guests arrived before six and enjoyed eight courses then varied social diversions. Names listed include Bertha Provet Alice Cambaugh Ethel Kran Olive Carbaugh Marienrite Kranee and others. A separate party of Lydia Lee Hlinwheth Conner Paul Huneke and Fred Glick spent Sunday in Waldo.
Wy thick and Gert tits moenin, the first correct answer being brought. Sendin ty Ruby Wilton of West Center street. You'll love to go some to beat thie git, if you haven't been watching this page you should do eope there are many bargain advertised thereom Get in tine and get a dolar. While the dummy director bust now appears to have been largely conducted for the profit of directors who were not dummies.
Market news shows cattle receipts at Union Stock Yards around 21 000 with tomorrow's estimate at 6 000 and cattle prices lower. Hog receipts near 20 000 with mixed to high grades selling 6 70 to 7 40. sheep receipts 35 000 with a forecast of 20 000 tomorrow and prices 2 15 to 4 20 for both western and central types. Cleveland reports higher hogs with 40 car shipments, yorkers around 7 00 and mixed at 7 40, drivers and sheep steady with steady receipts.
Chicago grain figures show September and December futures with mixed openings and closings. Prices swing across corn and soy contracts, with May positions around 1.01 to 1.02 and nearby bids varying. NY produce notes list dairy, poultry, and commodities with receipts and demand signals.
Grain market notices show prices for Clover Seed at 12.00 per bushel and Timothy at 2.00 per bushel. Other grains such as wheat corn rye oil and mungarian seed are mentioned with per bushel terms but without complete figures.
Corrected daily prices for butter including Butter-ate per lb and Butter-ie per lb, Wege-20e per dogen, Tiard-1 39 per Wb, Popcorn-e, plus selling prices and other goods such as cheese, cream, syrup, sugar, tear, vinegar and barrel pricing. Trade entries from Chan, Turner & Co. list both paying and selling rates for multiple items.
Reading shows scattered figures for butter and milk prices with brand names like Carnation and Knickerbocker. The snippet lists quantities in barrels or jugs and dollar amounts, but the text is fragmented and hard to parse.
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