Chicago Livertock Market Highlights Hogs Cattle Sheep Prices
Chicago livestock report lists 6 000 hogs and 6 000 sheep with midweek and weekly comparisons. Hogs mostly 10 to 20 higher than week ago, top around 10.15 10.25 for 170 190 lb slugs, few loads 220 260 lb. Cattle and sheep show slow trade with steadier to lower tendencies, fat cattle weak, replacement demand narrow, fat lambs 9.50 to 10.50, best ewes 6.00 to 6.50, native springers around 18.00 in special cases.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Chicago Grain Futures Edges Open High Low
Chicago grain prices for April 1 show May at 1.13 percent, with July at 114, 114 and 111 percent readings. Market range open, high and low data indicate modest moves across grain contracts.
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Chicago
Chicago Cash Grain Hsepts and film production notes
A fragment from a Chicago market report shows cash grain prices including Wheat and mixed grades with percentages. The text also recalls filming challenges for a seaside lighthouse scene, detailing equipment, tides, and the light house at Point Firmin for a production directed by Harry Pollard.
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Ted
Studio
der Ogi
Point Firmin
San Pedro
Harry Pollard
Pollard
Technicans
Edtia
Toledo Seed Market Prices and Wheat Quotes
Toledo seed market notes April 12 show Clover domestic cash at 11.50 with prime at 12.40 and October 12.60, Doe 12.80. Alsike cash 11.00. Timothy cash prices listed. Wheat prices refer to ears with unclear figures.
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Toledo
Doe
Alsike
Timothy
Norma Shearer Shifts Roles From Flapper To Modern Woman
The Fox presents Norma Shearer in Their Own Dear at Fox Theatre Monday and Tuesday. The star moves from Mary Dugan to a contemporary daughter who knows what she wants, delivering a studied portrait of an intelligent woman of today.
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Norma Shelrerly
Norma Shearer
Mary Dugan
Mrs. Cheyney
Laura
Fox Theatr
Miss Shearer
Falls of Niagara as Pictured by Hennepin
The excerpt recalls Father Louis Hennepin’s 17th century view of Niagara Falls. It notes his height estimate, vivid prose likening the falls to a vast sea of water, and contrasts with Italy and Switzerland while praising Niagara’s grandeur and power as described in a New York Times excerpt.
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Falls
Niagara
Hennepin
Louis Hennepin
Upper Mississippi
la Salle
Lake Ontario
Erie
Italy
Switzerland
New York Times
From Bad to Worse A Chinese mandarin and his wives
A rich old mandarin with two wives complains of gray hairs. He pulls out all the gray hairs then all the black hairs, leaving him bald and without wives. The tale ends with his folly and social demise.
Pat O Mara and Murphy at the Colliery Prank
Irish workers Pat O Mara and Mike Murphy took mining jobs. Pat broke his shovel and left a chalk note asking a friend to fetch it, "Take my shovel on gotten It." Murphy, knowing Pat, erased the message and replaced it with his own, "Take it out yourself, we never seen It."
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Pat O'Mara
Mike Murphy
Pat
Michael
London
Ike
News Notes from Grace Hill and nearby towns
A fragmented rural column recounts April happenings around Grace Hill and nearby areas. It notes visitors in Washington and Kalona, local garden projects, fence building, shopkeepers, road conditions, and community events. It mentions farm families Lloyd Luers Theodore Meyers and relatives, school days memories, a timber fire, and forthcoming funerals for Mrs Maxwell and the Kos family.
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Theodore Meyers
Donald
Washington
Grace Hill
Grace
Theodore
Heck
Meyers
Con
Fred
Crawfordsville
A.B. Drvis
Olive Moore
Hugh S. Davis
Burnaum
Rosina
Presbyterian Missionary Convention
Presbyterian Church
Trevor Williams
Williams
Trevor Will'ams
Salem Presbyterian Church
Lodges Washington Chapter No 98 Regular meeting notes
Regular meeting details listed for Washington Chapter No 98 and Damascus Shrine No 10 plus Washington Lodge No 26. Mentions dates on the second Thursday, third Thursday, and first Friday monthly, with officers Rose Reid and Della McBride among others. Notes visiting members welcome and room locations at Masonic Temple and Damascus Shrine settings.
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Washington
Rose Reid
W. M
Della McBride
Wel- Damascus Shrine
Masonic Vemiie
Edith Pulver
W. H. P. Hazel_Uaven
Washington Lodge No
Sutsman
W. Mi A
W. Yard
Railway Time Table With Western Lines and Local Trains
A timetable listing arrivals and departures for multiple western lines. Notes include Golden State limited connections, eastbound and westbound services, and Knoxville branch timings with local and mixer trains. Highlights cover Nos 12 29 49 83 express and limited services with specific times such as 2.01 a.m., 6:30 p.m., and 12:58 a.m. for Southwest Limited.
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Golden State
Vass
Indian ruler Jat Singh MH built unique astronomy observatories
A seventeenth century Indian ruler known as Maharajah Jat Singh MH fostered astronomy by constructing notable observatories. He chose five sites Delhi Jaipur Ujjain Benares and Mathura to observe celestial movements. Delhi and Jaipur observatories have been restored and the metal and masonry instruments were as high as ten feet. He kept meticulous observation records, later praised by modern astronomers. He died in 17H and his line perished on his funeral pyre.
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India
Maharajah Jat’ Singh MH
Delhi
Jaipur
Ujain
Benares
Mathura
Navajo Yebechat gods and weaving rugs
Smithsonian notes describe the Yebechat as Navajo nature gods primarily involved with healing. The traditional dance and painted sand representations faded. later the figures were woven into rugs for sale, often in bands where identical designs on both sides signal authenticity. Such double sided patterns were rare.
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Smithsonian Institution
Separation claim amid cruelty cited in Local Freight note
A grim, clipped exchange recounts a separation demand by a young wife on cruelty grounds. The judge, half amused, probes a captain’s identity as the Brownton Harlequins’ captain while stories of Gat, a dog, and a serum-thrown mishap surface. Passenger trains run daily per London Mall timetable through mixed local notes.
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Brownton Harlequins
Judge
London Mall
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