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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1920
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR text mentions December and a member and a station, with unclear details. It resembles a terse public or organizational notice but lacks coherent facts, names, dates, or actions to extract a definite event or outcome. The readable elements provide minimal context and no verifiable entities.
A reader describes life as a wrestling match, noting how workers face holds by employers and unions counter with breaks. The piece laments corporate power, chain stores, and rising bank robberies, while hinting at evolving strategies to break holds through cooperative buying and legal means.
Ems stock show proves a great success as Ogden citizens who planned the event are thanked for their progressive efforts and community spirit.
A retraction from The Star apologizes for a paid advertisement by Mrs. H Worthman accusing a young Ogden woman of improprieties. The Star found no basis for the charges and prints the apology to undo the injury. The piece then shifts to a political discussion about Democratic strategy, Wilson’s peace treaty, and potential nomination of Bryan with him seen as a strong campaigner and possible presidential candidate.
Ogden has long been an important live stock center. The annual stock show drew visitors from across the region, opening eyes to the city’s business vitality. Locals saw visitors’ frank, outdoor presence as a sign of robust health and democratic spirit, hoping more residents choose Ogden as a home.
Newspaper readers wondered what had happened to Bryant and if he could return. The Jackson day dinner raised his profile, no malice implied, as he moved into a prominent position in the Democratic ranks, though once a private in the party.
E W Howe argues that funding for symphonies and grand opera could be redirected to nationwide brass band concerts to spread happiness. He defends the value of arts, but cautions against endorsing trashy writing or limiting artists. The piece ends by praising effort toward quality in culture.
A humorous Eastern Exchange snippet riffs on a prophet predicting rising prices. It notes the speaker’s confusion about the prophet’s words and then ties the idea to higher prices for soup, sugar, and shoes next week, contrasting ignorance with clarity.
In Chicago a record sale of 36 Poland China sows at William Wrigley Jr’s Lake Geneva Wisconsin farm fetched 55975 dollars, average 1654.84. Buyers arrived by motor cars and sleds. Ernest Amelberg bid 4000 for a prized boar. Grover Sampson paid 3700 for another. An offer of 50000 was refused.
Salmon Idaho January 10 Semrelty or absolute want of hay is catalog neglect of horses all over Lemps county and many of the range horses were badly starved during the winter. Stockmen cannot afford feed and no one will take them for the price of the feed bill. Numbers of the suffering animals have wandered into towns and streets in search of food.
New York reports that tracts of Astor family real estate valued at about 1x million will be offered at public auction next March. The lands center on New York City holdings inherited from John Jacob Astor by Henry Astor, who died in 1918 after years of ostracism following a disputed marriage. The estate includes theaters private dwellings factories and tenement houses once part of the Eden farm and tied to the Astor fortunes.
Local churches list services and events for Sunday and midweek. Luther League meets at 124 27th street on Wednesday evening. Danish Lutherans and several congregations announce sermons, Sunday schools, and special services at First Congregational, Fifth Ward chapel, First Baptist, Elim English Lutheran, Second Congregational, First Christian, First Presbyterian, Wall Avenue Baptist, Ensign Mission, and others with guest speakers and choir numbers.
The regular Saturday night event will feature Derthana as manager J F Goss readies to entertain visiting stockmen and their wives and daughters. The famed Gerthana hall draws western crowds for a last evening at the Ganco palace.
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