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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1936
Page
8
Sale every Saturday at the Sidney Livestock Sales Pavilion invites sellers with top hogs or products to obtain top prices. A. B. Appery offers sale services, contact Sidney or Potter State Bank for dates. satisfaction guaranteed.
Shanghai's Chapel Benevolent Institution announced it seeks husbands for eighteen young women aged seventeen to twenty three living in the facility. Rescued by police from abduction and buyers, the women would be chosen by applicants who submit an approved photograph and application. The bride must approve the groom, or the marriage is off, with the institution warning of prosecution if a bride is sold.
A Paris correspondent reports the old baise-main hand kissing is being revived in Paris. Once for married women, the practice now extends to Mademoiselle and Madame, spreading from upper classes to the proletariat to restore outward courtesy in a ruder age.
Pathfinder notes a non serious malady among film players who stand under hot lights. The cure is simple, a glass of water. The article estimates a 140 pound person contains water to fill ten one gallon cans, with the rest of body weight made up by minerals and small elements.
Capper's Weekly notes Americans envy deep Revolutionary War and Mayflower lineages yet China surpasses them. Dr. H. H. King former minister of commerce in Ching has documents tracing his ancestry 75 generations to Confucius who lived 500 years before Christ.
The Montreal Herald notes a 1815 “Man in the Sun” spectacle seen first over Austria as the sun set. A wav ing flag figure stirred nations with a chilling omen. England and America later reported sightings with differing details. The figure faded over West America, with many linking the apparition to Napoleon.
A group of buyers sued a Bucharest Romanian publisher for fraud claiming his universal advertisement for a book titled What Every Young Girl Should Know Before Marriage misrepresented it as a marriage guide. The court ruled the title fairly described the contents of the book.
The Literary Digest notes a shift toward traditional Russian art forms in painting drama ballet and opera under Stalin with Moscow and Leningrad drawing rebels back to Germany and critics likening Moscow’s display to Parisian grand opera. The Vossische Zeitung argues the spectacle signals a paradoxical revival of classical grandeur within a proletarian milieu.
A six foot black snake found near Danville Virginia after being killed by Jesse Smith lunged at a dog on a Caswell county plantation. The reptile had swallowed a brass doorknob from a nest of guinea fowl mistaking it for an egg. Half the knob protruded from the skin after death.
A 11 foot bottle-nosed like shark was hauled ashore off Curbridge after a fierce struggle. Barking like a dog, it resisted lassooing with a wire clothesline as villagers aided Mrs. Lucy Bone who first raised the alarm. The creature, weighing about 600 pounds, was shot after landing and gave final barks.
In a terse exchange, a maid confirms the mistress is out and Miss Fay jokes that Friday is not always unlucky, hinting at superstition or a humorous remark within the household.
A man from Chester, released eight months ago, faced 77 theft charges with goods valued at £1,300. German Peter Flink in Cologne confessed to 434 thefts in a year, valued at £3,460. In Paris, Foerschler admitted three burglaries, boasting of 205 since last birthday. Another French thief, Chicot, kept a 1500-crime diary, with goods totaling over £20,000.
A glass vacuum tube furnace at MIT creates hot spots hundreds of thousands of degrees within hydrogen gas. Three electrodes drive a flaming arc and a third electrode boosts the arc to produce extreme heat points. Protons stream from the spots, yielding nine times more protons than prior methods.
Union Stock Yards Omaha June 16 1936 receipts 8500 cattle. Buyers sought light steers and heifers at steady to strong prices. Best cattle 7.90. Cows and yearlings mixed. feeding steers firm. Prices listed for cornfed steers yearlings beef cows fat heifers feeding steers stock cattle and calves with ranges across quality grades.
Receipts Monday totaled 7 500 hogs with bids steady to 15 cents lower than last week’s close. Light butcher weights sold around 9 65, mixed and heavy hogs 9 65 down, sows 8 40 to 8 75. Lambs showed strength, with fat lamb demand lifting prices up to 25 cents from last week’s close. California lambs brought 11 00 and Idaho tops 11 25. Feeder lambs steady, aged stock unchanged. Fat lamb ranges included Rangers 10 25 to 11 00, fair to good 9 50 to 10 25, fed 10 00 to 10 60, fed shorn 9 50 to 10 15, natives 10 25 to 11 00, natives 9 50 to 10 26, and culls 8 00 to 9 50.
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