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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1903
Page
5
Mixed OCR text shows a school board ledger with salaries for attorney physician and janitor, then stray comments about tomatoes and a visit by Elizabeth Shields during the Irrigation Congress. It includes an ad-style testimonial for Dallard’s Snow Liniment and a program listing with Miss Anna Maguire and others performing cantatas and musical pieces.
The Standard office will open from 3 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. daily except Sunday. Sunday hours are 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
Announcement instructs advertisers to submit changes for the evening paper by the prior day and notes that Saturday edition ads for the Standard must be in by Thursday noon.
A brief item from a historical newspaper references a business office labeled No 66 One Ring and an editorial room listed as No 6 Two Kings with a cryptic line ye iin. The readable text suggests a small internal note or layout description rather than a full story.
Winter brought a chop in trade as Len don Market advertises Juicy Steak and fine Poultry while watch repairs appear at 2441 Waeh Ave. First Presbyterian church plans daily prayer services during the week of prayer in January and Armor Market promotes fine meat cuts amid the holiday season.
Marriage licenses issued for Ralph H. Van Deman and Sadie R. Rice in Delaware and San Francisco. Barnstorming market ads, bowling and greenhouse spots, police notices, and holiday promotions fill a crowded Ogden page including a rabbit hunt cancellation and a receiver sale of the Underwood Agency stock.
Weber County commissioners met in regular session and heard County Recorder Ellis report on copying and indexing the old abstract records to 1890. Two clerks worked 22 months costing 2472.50. Miss Annis Brown completed all three large volumes. The board praised accuracy and neatness and urged preservation in the recorder vault.
The piece reviews Croesus as a legendary wealthy king and links his troubles to indigestion. It extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal relief, claiming wide usage and a proven record of cures. It notes the price of 60 cents a box and calls for druggists to stock them.
Senator Fred J. Kiesel, fresh from Sacramento, extols Ogden as the steady railway center of the Harrian system and western end of the Gould system. He highlights Ogden’s irrigation gains, electric power system, a beet sugar factory, and a canning plant producing 600000 cases annually, stressing irrigation farming’s world market edge.
A terse observation notes the Mikados watching the Japanese Diet with a playful contrast to bear meat, labeled as good yet hard to digest. The remark appears in the New York Herald reflecting cultural satire and food analogy.
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