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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1925
Page
8
A rambling, humorous piece contrasts Omaha with Nebraska outside the city. It ridicules local booster culture, mentions a Bohemian figure, and mocks politics and economics from an outsider view. The piece shifts to a satirical poem about Congress and a utopian plan raising prices, wages, and prosperity for farmers and locals.
Union Stock Yards reports a cattle run of 13,000 head with uneven hog gains and lighter lambs. Prices show steers from 12.00 to 14.50 for prime, with grass beeves and stockers steady to 25c lower. cows and bulls range from 2.75 to 9.00, calves 3.50 to 8.50, and feeder prices varied amid heavier supply.
Hog sales showed uneven gains with about 6500 head offered. Shippers bought good grades 15 to 25 cents higher, while the packer market moved slower though 15 cents higher. Top hog price reached 13.65, bulk sold around 12.40 to 18.50 per hundredweight.
Lambs and sheep receipts were heavier, with 18 600 head on the Monday run. Fat lambs dropped 25 to 50 cents, best bids around 15.00. Aged sheep and feeders steady. Prices: lambs good to choice 14.73 to 15.00, fair to medium 14.25 to 14.75, feeders 13.50 to 14.50, natives 14.00 to 14.75, natives cull 10.00 to 18.00, yearlings 0.75 to 11.50, wethers 7.50 to 9.50, fat ewes 6.00 to 7.25, ewes culls 2.00 to 4.00.
Miles Darden, claimed by some authorities as the largest man on record, died in Tennessee in 1857. He stood 7 feet 6 inches tall, weighed 871 pounds at age forty seven, and was fifty nine years old at death.
A vintage notice promotes newspaper subscriptions and magazine orders with a Union Pacific timetable listing Eastbound passenger train No 10 at 9 05 A M No 4 passenger and local freight No 262 at 12 55 P M on Monday Wednesday and Friday It urges readers to place orders for The World Herald Bee Omaha Daily News and about 2310 magazines with quick mail service and direct dispatch to publishers via a single company The Potter Review
A plan to shrink the Maine collection sees its total volume count trimmed to just 23 000 volumes. Library officials cite efficiency gains and better curation as the goals behind the consolidation effort.
The article notes avoiding window placement for a goldfish stand to prevent light injury. A dark wall alcove is recommended, with an oblong holder against the wall proving highly satisfactory.
A short editorial quip urges readers to grumble less about missing comforts and thankfulness for present fortunes, aiming to lift spirits and align attitude with common prosperity.
The quote frames liberty as essential to the soul and life, arguing without it the world becomes a prison and the universe a boundless dungeon. It attributes the sentiment to Norbert G. Ingersoll.
A Toledo Blade quote features the Man on the Car noting he fears giving a present only to have it returned to the store and credited to the recipient’s charge account. The remark reflects concern that some gifts may be misinterpreted as burdens rather than blessings.
In the Seventh century the imperial library held about 80,000 volumes. By the Fifteenth century a commission of 2,000 Chinese scholars labored to condense the vast collection into a more manageable compendium.
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