Logan Markets Correction Notice
Corrected every Tuesday by The People's Store Orocers itemizes Logan markets and updates on weekly prices and offerings.
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Newspaper
The Ohio Democrat
Location
Logan, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
6
Corrected every Tuesday by The People's Store Orocers itemizes Logan markets and updates on weekly prices and offerings.
Prices listed for apples, potatoes, butter, eggs, and poultry. Includes live and dressed poultry, live chickens, dressed turkeys, and various cattle categories with on hoof or dressed sale terms.
East Buffalo Cleveland Pittsburg Cincinnati and Chicago markets show cattle, hogs, sheep, and calves selling steady to higher with mixed goods. Prices per head include butcher cattle around five to seven dollars, milkers and sprayers at twenty five, hogs near eight to nine dollars, and wheat and corn listed by grade in multiple cities. The report notes imports from Europe and discusses agricultural factors influencing prices and farm practices.
A long article argues for improved drainage, better housing, and smarter farming. It stresses studying local soil, rainfall, and land history, encourages education for youth, and warns against overextending land holdings. It contrasts English and American farming, highlighting modernization, stock management, and responsible land use. It urges return to practical farming with educated voters and civic responsibility.
A long feature mix notes on nature study in schools urging outdoor lessons from field trips to creameries and mills, plus a report on orange crop profitability with two-year sales figures showing low per-box returns and high production costs. It blends education reform with practical farming economics.
An old note explains a novelty reading trick using a glass of water and reversed text. By holding water above the eyes and viewing the paper’s reflection on the water’s surface, the upside down letters appear right side up, illustrating total reflection and how eye position alters visibility.
Fragmentary OCR reveals Ancle Erastus the village plasterer and whitewasher plans another wedding after several spouses. He visits a Presbyterian minister known for officiating past marriages to arrange a ceremony the next evening. Dialogue hints at prior unions and a joking remark about securing a nonrigorous preacher for the knot.
The London Zoo chimpanzee Joe repeatedly refuses to enter his cage, outsmarting keepers who use a ploy involving a dark hole and a gus pipe. After months of the ruse, Joe remains unwarned, learning nothing from the warnings yet caught by the keeper’s staged signal.
In the Cascade mountains about seventy miles northeast of Jacksonville, Oregon, lies Great Sunken Lake. Claimed to be the deepest lake in the world it averages 2,000 feet deep around its sides. The water depth is unknown and its surface is perfectly smooth like glass. It spans about fourteen miles in length and four and a half miles in width.
The London Evening Post of December 1709 details a Portuguese priest’s flying ship that failed to fly, claiming it could not achieve 200 miles in 24 hours or at all. The article lists odd propulsion ideas including bellows, globes of heaven and earth with loadstones, iron wire netting, amber beads, and sun heat, suggesting misapplied science and impractical design.
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