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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
5
The business office of THE STAND ART will be open from 3s. m. to 6:30 p. m. daily except Sunday. Sunday hours are from 10 p. m. to 12 noon.
Notice to advertisers: all changes for the evening paper must be in the day preceding and all changes for the Saturday edition must be in by Thursday noon.
A cryptic OCR item lists two lungs alongside business office and editorial room numbers, with gaps suggesting a fragmentary note or classified ad from an old newspaper page. The readable bits imply a cataloging or inventory fragment rather than a complete story or event.
Juicy Steak and Toultry Len lon Market on 21th Street is named alongside watch and clock repairer Paul W. Stecher at 2441 Wash Ave. Conductor Al White departs for Omaha to join the grievance committee of the O R Ly. Also mentions coffee and Armor Market with traders C. B. and L. W. Potter at the Oaks.
Ogden residents report additions at the resort including a large ladies reception room and new bar fixtures. Plans include cottages for summer guests and expanded grounds with rustic seating. Also notes tavern ads, Christmas goods, a funeral service, and a lost pink and white silk minifier with a reward offered.
Capt C W Schuler of the Promontory休 stops in the city for the holidays. Southern Pac employees received pay checks. Railroad offices mostly closed except for dispatchers. J P Nelly arrested for shooting on Twenty fifth street by Officers Wilson and Chambers. Fire and police receive cigars from Daumeister Bros BE F Barton presents art Christmas cards. L Watts gifts cigars to department. Como Bridge on the Union Pacific caught fire causing delays. Frank Gowers transferred from Rawlins dining hall to Ogden. Hawlins office personnel changes include resignations of H P Heaton and H P Ingram. J T P Coats returns to telegraph post. J F Casey transferred to Rawlins.
Gite af Hil Nye jokes about meeting Major Potd at Everett House New York He tells Major Potd he wants a platform job and claims years of public exposure and a stint with Barnum exposing his head as an ostrich egg in a cabinet to entertain crowds
Three alarms in twenty four hours pulled the fire department from bed. A 5 16 PM blaze at 2743 Washington near a lamp and curtain caused minor damage. A second alarm at Grant and Twelfth reported a barn fire. Ambrose Shaw’s two story brick barn was destroyed with losses around 860 dollars. A later false alarm on Sixteenth Street triggered the chemical crew.
Retail markets in Ogden show brisk holiday trade with cash purchases for groceries, meat, poultry, and luxuries. Prices list staple goods from potatoes at 60 cents a bushel to turkeys at 26 cents per pound and flour at 2.60 per hundredweight, reflecting strong buying and prosperity.
The Baltimore American notes the abundance of horoes in the region and compares teaming to horoes, highlighting local abundance and perception of strength in numbers.
A comical exchange about favorite birds in a bygone lay, with one speaker preferring a hen named Molly Dorothy despite hens not singing. The dialogue centers on a playful misunderstanding over which birds are singing.
Sunday school pupils at Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist churches held Christmas events. At Presbyterian, young scholars recited and sang then Santa Claus handed out candy and peanuts to about 200 children beside a decorated tree. Methodist program included songs, prayer, cantata and recitations followed by gifts from Santa. Baptist exercises featured a cantata with fifty children in festive costumes, plus dialogues and choruses, drawing a crowded scene and Christmas greetings.
An old London Standard account describes reviving a hive of bees by breathing on them. A gardener reportedly breathed for minutes until bees moved, then restored the colony to production. It warns against perfume and powders, noting warmth and gentle breath aid handling.
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