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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1937
Page
8
Receipts total 8,500 head as demand from packers and shippers stays solid. Desirable steers, yearlings, and heifers sell 12 to 15 cents higher than Friday with best steers at 13.25 dollars. Fat lambs ease to 10.50 11.25 dollars while feeders and aged sheep show varied movement.
Receipts of hogs at Omaha Monday were 5,000 head. Opening bids and sales on desirable hogs were 5 to 10 cents higher than the close of last week, with packing grades generally steady. Desirable butchers moved at 10.75 to 11.10, medium and mixed hogs 10.50 to 10.75. Sows sold largely around 9.75 to 10.00.
Receipts of sheep and lambs at Omaha Monday totaled 4 500 head with demand not at all urgent from buyers. market tone weaker on lambs as slaughter rates declined and trade activity slowed under light bidding and cautious buying.
The market reports show fat lambs priced from 10.00 to 11.25 dollars with good to best fed lambs at 10.50 to 11.25. Best Idahos at 11 dollars, natives up to 11.25, feeder lambs strong at 8.75 to 9.25, and aged sheep steady. A brief note recalls the Mexican real or bit as 12 1/2 cents with historical use as currency.
The Literary Digest lists correct prepositions with the verb call. Examples include call to a passer by call after one who is departing call on or up on a friend at his house call on or upon one for aid or service call upon the country for troops he is called by the name of Lincoln after the great emancipator his integrity has never been called in question.
Garter snakes are common native reptiles. Their quick forked red tongue gathers insects and, with frogs, toads, salamanders, and worms, forms their principal diet. Harmless and of economic value, they hibernate below frost line and emerge in early spring when warmed.
In ancient times Scandia described a large island or landmass north of the Baltic Sea. The geographic term Scandinavia is fading from use, remaining common mainly in ethnographic and literary contexts.
In warm sandy habitats ants may fall into vertical pits dug by Ant Lions. The sides are smooth and steep. at the bottom two curved objects appear. The larval ant lions lure prey with shifting sand and drag it into the pit. Pupae form in silk-lined cocoons and emerge as slender winged adults.
Mustard has ancient roots in medicine and gastric aid. Romans introduced it to England and a 18th century entrepreneur transformed it from seed to powder, launching a major English milling industry. The piece notes folklore of life restoration from topical use and highlights the shift to ready powder.
The sword drifted from combat tool to ornament from Civil War days onward as firearms and bayonets rendered it obsolete for battle. Early blades prized in Toledo and Damascus commanded high prices after secret tests. blades were bent and stabbed through sheet steel to prove their strength.
Carmine Lake, a lake color used in paints, is produced by extracting a coloring agent from cochineal insects. Insects are dried and boiled to release dye, which is precipitated on an alumina clay base. Mexico and South America supply vast quantities, and production has continued for over two centuries.
A Pearson's London Weekly correspondent suggests Stonehenge like structures in the Americas and Africa could be Phoenician temples linked to Atlantis. The piece notes red gold hair and fair features among Biddulph Moor residents as possible Venetian Phoenician descendants.
The Jew's harp a small Europe wide instrument also called Jew's trump. An Indianapol is News writer notes origins and names. Scheibler created a multi harp aura, Eulenstein played sixteen in London, Wheatstone studied its acoustics in 1828.
A London Weekly writer claims Christianity did not adopt the cross as a symbol until the fourth century. The true cross allegedly surfaced during Tiberius’s reign when St. James led Jerusalem. Helena’s 328 discovery supposedly involved testing three crosses with a dead man, who revived on the third cross, and portions were sent to Constantine and Rome while the rest was buried at Golgotha’s church.
Croesus, king of Lydia from 560 to 546 B C, was famed for vast wealth. Tradition links riches to Pactolus sands, but analysis suggests wealth mainly from his people’s industry and trade. Archeologists estimate his landed properties at eight to nine million dollars.
A writer notes Tibetans average about 40 cups of tea per day and savor a salty buttery brew. The article also mentions the world’s largest tea bush in Badulla, Ceylon, measuring 24 feet across and 67 feet around.
A historical note on Ophir as a seaport or region used by Hebrews in Solomon's era to obtain gold. The exact location remains debated, with theories placing it in India or southern Arabia. The account suggests Ophir was water-accessible from the Red Sea coast.
Balboa sailed from Santo Domingo as a deck hand to reach Panama the Isthmus. He led the settlement at Darien, crossed to the Pacific in 1513 and claimed lands for Spain. The Camino de Oro linked Caribbean and Pacific, fueling Panama’s rise as a wealthy staging point for Peruvian silver, despite pirate raids.
In parts of Siberia temperatures reach minus 40 and occasionally lower, not cold enough to cause the bizarre phenomena seen at 50 below. The Rocky Mountain Herald notes that in such frigid zones lighting is impractical as batteries freeze, candles harden, and lanterns fail to perform, making illumination a major challenge during cold spells.
The Schipperke is the only naturally tailless dog. Originating in Holland and Belgium, they relate to Pomeranians and resemble them aside from their short coat. They are small, black, compact, with a foxlike head and erect ears, unlike cropped tailed terriers or bobtailed English shepherds.
A compact musing argues that intellectual and creative gifts arise from physical and nervous disorders rather than mere beauty or strength. It suggests deaf writers excel through focus, myopes attract women by listening closely, insomniacs gain time for hobbies, and vocal detectives develop depth by pausing to think before speaking.
After completing the first volume of his French Revolution history, Thomas Carlyle sent it to John Stuart Mill for review. Mill’s housekeeper burned the manuscript for kindling, with no remaining copy or notes. Carlyle then had to redo the entire work from scratch over three years.
The passage recalls Cato calmly declining a hostile provocation, noting the imbalance of a contest where one party enjoys harsh language while the other dislikes it and cannot respond in kind. It reflects Roman dignity and self restraint in face of insult.
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