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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
3
The fragment appears to describe an independent newspaper established in 1870, noting membership in the Associated Press and subscription rates per year. It references the Audit Bureaus of Girci fation and the Associated Pravt, and mentions evening publication except Sunday with no avitazio of a club.
The American Grand Opera Association plans to present American works to boost national interest in opera. Backed by music lovers, it seeks to stage Charles Wakefield Cadman and Sarana Shanewis operas in major cities, highlighting American composers and themes.
The Ogden stock show drew attention as fifty sheep sold for 42 12 cents, highlighting the show’s smooth conduct and the welcome reception from exhibitors. Ogden’s growing role as a livestock hub is noted with 43 percent of U S sheep grazed in Utah and neighboring states.
The article discusses Bolshevik leadership and their stated ability to sustain the Soviet state amid global hostility and Russian hunger. It cites General Bliss remarks to Congress on Bolshevik tactics, supply shortages, and potential expansion of influence, including speculation about spreading Bolshevik ideas to China.
Fragmentary note contemplates Russia and China forming Soviet style blocs and speculates on Europe and the United States if Germany becomes a Soviet republic. The text is garbled and lacks verifiable events or names.
The Standard repeats the 1920 census questions asking readers to study them in advance. It lists queries on residence, family composition, ownership, race, age, marital status, immigration and naturalization, school attendance, literacy, birthplace, parental origins, language, occupation, industry, and employment status to prepare for enumeration.
An archaic analysis cites Coleman and Reitze asserting vast silver production to sustain world needs. It discusses projected annual silver outputs, wartime reallocations, and historic price highs, with references to New York authors and era-specific pricing.
An analysis notes that silver coins are valued less than the metal they contain, prompting proposed melting down of British coinage. Export restrictions multiply pressure as gold leaves circulation, with silver and paper bearing much of postwar trade burdens. Four global silver demands, each severe, threaten further shortages.
A fragmentary notice notes a planned coalition of clothing firms with sheep and cotton raisers and business agencies to advance textile production and trade. The precise details remain unclear in the readable text.
New Chaplin comedy. A Day’s Pleasure produced under First National contract. Shown at the Orpheum starting Sunday. The film promises the funniest and cleanest motion picture comedy yet from Chaplin, with scenes that outdo his prior works.
Dr John M Eat al gery, a renowned surgeon from Johns Hopkins, has been appointed chair of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He left Baltimore to confer with Harvard authorities, signaling a major transfer of leadership in American medical circles.
Manager J F Goss schedules two Saturday matinees for the Midgets show at the Orpheum Ogden with starts at 4 20 and 4 30 to accommodate children. Evening performances follow at 7 30 and 9 13 with limited booking time after each show. The bill includes four other novelty acts and tickets are in demand.
In Chicago on January 16, Howard Files, special assistant to Attorney General Palwert, urged action to lower high clothing costs. He warned that current levels and any increases are unaffordable for the public and predicted prices must fall within six months. Government will pursue profiteering and seek the cause of price jumps.
A national vigilance committee to police retail trade and aid the justice department against profiteers will be offered to the committee by the National Shoe Dealers association. The shoe men at their convention approved a resolutions committee statement expressing cooperation in the effort to curb shoe costs and support government actions.
Ostercycle owners and riders are requested to meet at Regm 227 Col. Hudson Bldg on Monday evening at 7 30 pm January 19. Business of importances for all riders. Signed Liverman Applegate. Timbers are not the only pipe fierce.
New York dispatch reports a family outbreak after eating olives. Two die and three remain hospitalized with a strange illness causing blindness and paralysis of breathing muscles, striking Mia Alavio Deldena and her 16 year old son Dominick among others. A medical examiner notes six recent deaths in Detroit from exposure to the same cause.
Doubtful readers are urged that rheumatism is bloodborne and can be cured by Swift Specific Co. For fifty years the remedy claims to eliminate pain with many testimonials. Send for personal assessment to Chief Medical Adviser, Swift Specific Co, Dept. 43, Atlanta, Ga.
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