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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
8
A fragmented early ad lists affordable household items including soaps such as Bob White and Fell's Naptha, Sea Foam powder, and Twenty Mule Team products. It touts bread, various coffees including Avon Club and Old Master, multiple flour sacks, canned vegetables, and meat products, highlighting wholesale prices and bulk deals to entice shoppers. The tone mirrors a period payday catalog with dense pricing and product variety.
A new winter basketball league may form in Ogden with teams from Eagle, Ogden Packing and Providion, Utah Cereal, and others. Browning Brothers to present trophy for two-time champions. meeting set at Browning Brothers store on Trainers avenue next Tuesday evening.
The opening of T. G. Poley’s new variety store drew a large crowd as doors opened in the morning with many people gathered at the entrance, vying for admission. The scene suggested strong local interest in the new retail addition.
The United States government ordered thirty carloads of Utah canned tomatoes for army use, to be moved promptly to Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington, likely bound for Vancouver Barracks Fort Lewis Fort Lawton Bremerton Navy Yard. The Utah Cannery Association cited the shift as the second large order, with final consignments for Omaha already en route and Seattle Portland traffic to begin within ten days. Vancouver Barracks lies opposite Portland on the Columbia River. Fort Lawton sits near Seattle and Bremerton Navy Yard is a few miles away across Puget Sound.
The article describes Foley’s new variety store attracting a large crowd on opening day with 250 job applications noted for Foley’s hiring. It highlights store appeal, commodity variety, and strong initial sales, alongside broader market data and livestock quotes from Kansas City and Omaha, including price ranges for hogs cattle and sheep.
The funeral for Robert Equapries Me Quarrie is set for Sunday at 1 PM in the Ogden Tabernacle. Bishop George W Trowning will preside with choir performances, solos, and remarks from church leaders. burial follows at Oxdenely cemetery with pallbearers named.
A schedule of meetings led by county home economics demonstrator Edna Ladin outlines sessions for housewives in Slater ville Aden and Pleasant View. The program covers economical food preparation and conservation under government guidance, with districts organized in home economics to assist food conservation efforts.
New York markets opened December 1 amid extremely dull activity with only tiny price changes. Traders described the session as a quiet, narrow range day with leather sectors showing minimal movement and Union tactics cited as the sole notable factor affecting sentiment.
Chicago markets show favorable weather aiding corn and bear activity, with expectations of larger crops next week and improved railcar supply. Opening prices declined, oats dampened corn, hogs weakens provisions, later firms steadied by steady buying. Local livestock at Union Stock Yards shows varied cattle and hog receipts with mixed price ranges.
Quotations from J. A. Hugh & Co show a slow closing day with most issues easing. Active items include Alin Consolidated, East Crown Point, Lehi Tinile, Maltmioth, and Silver King Consolidated, while many others traded lightly or held near prior prices. Bank and industrial stocks list multiple bids and asks, with notable totals and share counts across Utah exchanges.
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