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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1903
Page
2
The Standard announces subscription details and editorial constraints. It notes that communications to the paper are limited to 200 words and mentions the editor and manager, William Glasmann, with Caryion in Olly Ge Month.
The Standard directs all advertisers to conduct business directly with the office in Utah. Advertising agents outside Utah are urged to contact The Standard Publishing Co. for official services and instructions.
The United States government and Missouri celebrate the fall approval of plans for a grand pageant. Washington officials, army and naval officers, and foreign envoys gather in St. Louis as the city prepares for a week of world fair activities. Speedy efforts support the event with a week of celebrations and pageantry beginning today.
An English summary criticizes the Atlantic Shipping Aynat trust linking British and American moves. It notes American legislative action empowering the trust’s management, the imperial government’s role, and public unease at foreign interference in Britain’s ships and finance.
A garbled dispatch from Opilen reports President B Harrivate pressing Southern Pacific rail interests amid quarrels over a lake crossing. Chief Engineer Hod Uns denies a quagmire, while an examiner’s correspondent claims lake conditions hinder overland travel, forcing a boat journey despite engineers’ efforts.
Fragmented remarks discuss a grand exhibition in Alabama, a lavish sum paid by Jefferson for Frettel possessions, and debates over expansion and integrity of the American form. The text mentions city control, territorial claims, and population growth from 4,000,000 in 1803 to 10,000,000 in 1903, criticizing or praising expansion and national wealth.
Samuel Gompers head of the American Federation of Labor speaks on reducing strikes and improving workers’ lives. He credits arbitration, organized labor unity, and the Roosevelt commission for better conditions and progress, while urging peaceful means to resolve disputes and long-term gains for labor and industry.
World markets show fractional gains in New York as prices drifted. railroad shares nudged higher while Amalgamated Copper eased. Chicago cattle receipts reached 80,000 with steady to firm prices for prime beef, hogs, and calves. sheep and lambs saw steady demand with mixed loads and prices.
Kansas City cattle receipts total 2,090 with notes on steers heifers and bulls. Prices for stockers and feeders range up to 4.00 with vealers 3.76 to 5.05. Packer bids and hogs and sheep data also listed, including lambs and ewes, with varying per hundred weights and sale figures.
April 30 New York sugar and commodity notes show steady raw sugar at 9.16 cents, centrifugal raffia 1.16, and refined prices. Cattle and hog receipts are listed with mixed gains and price ranges for calves, steers, heifers, and hogs, alongside grain and stocker values.
Wheat and grain futures across Chicago and New York exchanges show May and July maturities with mixed bids. Prices list for Corn Pork Lard Rye Flax and Clover, with multiple railways and central markets quoted including Brooklyn Canadian Pacific Metropolitan NY Central Norfolk and Western Reading Rock Island and Pennsy. Prices appear in eighths and fractions, reflecting a busy standard market day in late April 1967.
Brief unreadable note lists numbers and names with scattered figures not forming a clear event. Items include steel related terms and Western Union, with multiple fractions and misplaced punctuation. No coherent summary possible from the fragment.
A traveler negotiates a bill with a Portuguese innkeeper. After a long exchange the guest attempts to settle, but the innkeeper resists. At last the traveler ensures the total is fair, paying what he considers owed and leaving both parties quietly relieved.
The fragmentary passag e describes ancient needlework found in Egyptian context with tapestries and woven cloth, hints at Tatueiites and Rast Lien embroidery origins, plus a 1753 Universal Magazine recipe for a folk remedy. It also recounts a tale about a horse’s bridle and color symbolism in old lore.
Fragmentary text describes a copper industry center and references a fore footed animal in hot furnaces. It mentions fire, removal from its element, and a wary old wail or warning about tires. The passage is garbled and uncertain but hints at industrial danger and mythic warnings.
A garbled OCR passage mixes references to fire, extinguishers, law, and a Daglish solicitor. The text also touches on a money minded public, a fisher at a horse race, Wilke and Chicago News, and notes on society and ambition, all presented in disjointed, uncertain phrasing.
The provided fragment contains disjointed phrases and invented terms with no identifiable people places organizations dates or actions to summarize into a coherent news item.
Fragmented OCR text hints at a period shop scene with garbled dialogue about waiting for change and a long delay. Names and places are unreadable, leaving only a sense of comic frustration and a disrupted exchange.
The bride notes varied wedding timing with trials in April May and July. she plans to marry next month if possible while considering alternatives. Local details are unclear as the text is fragmented.
A fragmentary account describes a captain guiding four ARK vessels toward Ate Ais with Vai wit dan Leing sorayd tate Detrpiy, highlighting a perilous voyage and uncertain direction. The text preserves a maritime journey motif with unclear proper nouns and settings.
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