Chicago Hog Cattle and Sheep Prices Reported in Hectic Trading
CHICAGO December 29 market reports show hog receipts around 70 000 with active trading and price advances across weights with big packers holding steady. Cattle receipts 23 000 with uneven demand and firmer lighter weights while sheep receipts 16 000 with fat lambs steady to 25c lower and feeding lambs higher. Wheat and grain quotes list No 2 red wheat at 1 88 and corn No 2 mixed at 1 27 to 1 29.
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Chicago
Chicago Livestock Estimates for Tomorrow
Official live stock estimates show hogs 80000 head cattle 18000 and sheep 17000 for tomorrow in Chicago markets with traders watching futures and prices.
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Chicago
Toledo Seed Market Prices Article
Clover seed cash prices change from 19.45 to 19.80 with December and February quotes noted. Timothy seed cash shows shifts from 3.35 in December to 3.45 in March.
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Toledo
Clover Seed Cash
Timothy
Po' Man Prayer Echoes Across City Streets
A witty quip attributed to Rastus in the New York American critiques wealth and poverty, suggesting entry to heaven favors none and earthly life presents equal challenges for rich and poor. The remark frames class tension in a colorful, period voice.
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Caid Rastus
New York American
Costly Banquet in Lord Mayor's Day Feasts
A London report notes the least costly Lord Mayor's day banquet in 1910 with a three course menu due to wartime scarcity. It contrasts the most expensive in 1914 by Lord Mayor Danville, costing about 125000 pounds in total.
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London
Danville
Closing Out Sales And Auctions In Ainsworth Keota And Washington
A series of closing out sales listed with dates and locations. J H McParland near Aineworth, Dee 70 Chas E F Dun theo near Keota, Dec 30 Gue Croquet near Ainsworth, and Mrs D E Whalen at 623 North Avenue C Washington selling household goods.
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J. H. McParland
Aineworth
Dee
Dun
Keota
Ainsworth
Mra
D. E. Whalen
North Avenue C
Washington
J. E. Wright
Emmett Hamm
Mine With the Iron Door to Feature at Fox Theatre
The Mine With the Iron Door, adapted from Harold Bell Wright, depicts Catalina mountains in Arizona and adventurers seeking gold. Sol Lesser Principal Pictures presents the production with backdrops of desert and canyon terrain, opening at the Fox Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Sol Lesser
Harold Hell Wright
Harold Bell Wright
Catalina
Arizona
Mr. Lesser
James Picture Production
Hackins
Canada de Oro
Fox Theatre
Sharp Decline Follows Wheat Market Upturn
Chicago reports a sharp setback in wheat prices after an initial upturn as large commission houses pushed selling. May and July futures fell 1.5 to 2 percent, with corn and oats following the downward trend. Provisions also softened in sympathy with grain weakness.
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Chicago
Ocean Passage
Argentina
Doctor Foils Bigamous Groom to Save Ray’s Love
Claud Deering learns Ray Clifford is to marry him while Ray Lennox’s past reveals John Brooks as her former husband. Brooks confronts Deering in hospital but is warned off. A nurse comforts Brooks, revealing the bigamy scandal remains hidden from Ray, preserving their future together.
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Cue Deering
Ray Clifford
Deering
Ray
John Brooks
Doc Deering
Ray Brooks
John
Tam
Miss Lennox
Brooks
Miss Clifford
Washington Produce Markets Poultry Prices and Hides Listing
Commodity prices for butterfat butter per pound, eggs and poultry by weight and type, including pens and pullets, leghorn and black breeds, roosters and young fowl, and goose and beef horse hides. Note excludes culls and sick poultry. Market terms and unit prices shown.
Fom.Sims Says Wild Holiday Quips and Reflections
A collage of humorous quips on Christmas, Easter, and everyday life from 1924. Observations on prosperity, aging, optimism, and social roles mix with light jokes about eggs, eggs nog, and holiday timing. Includes playful lines about Santa Claus and everyday silliness.
Seek Ye the Gain of Loss
A historical publication discusses themes around gain and loss in a reflective treatise. The article explores moral or economic implications and quotes notable figures to illustrate contrasts between prosperity and hardship.
Mystery Twins Bring Romance To Country Club Masquerade
Phyllis and Isobel trick two suitors at a masquerade then hitch a ride with Billy Glen and Anderly to the country club. The reading of a hidden gain of loss inspires a sudden eclipse on the dance floor as the twins vanish leaving one golden sandal and one scarlet slipper.
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Phyllis
Isobel
Granny
Billy Glen
Anderly
Glen
Country Club
Mystery
Spain
Archaeologist Identifies City of David Site Near Ophel
In Jerusalem six months of excavations at Ophel near the Temple area uncover a wall 27 feet thick and a Tower of David. Rev J Garrow Duncan of the Palestine Exploration Fund asserts this is the eastern side of David's City and the original Jebusite fort. He claims 5000 years of continuous habitation and finds Hebrew pottery and jar-handles. The site is designated a national monument and the tower is being restored.
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Jerusalem
Ophel
City of David
J. Garrow Duncan
Palestine Exploration Fund
David
Duncan
Tower of David
Palestine Government
Explorer Reports People With Tails In Jungle
An expedition from Korneo prepares to investigate New Guinea tribes where some children reportedly have visible tail-like appendages. The source notes intermarriage with a vanished human line and describes the unlikely heritage.
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Korneo
New Guinea
Tremors Felt as Seismograph Reports Strong Quake
Georgetown University seismograph logged very pronounced tremors with an estimated epicenter near the Japanese earthquake zone. Boston ships carrying wines and liquors to embassies in France Britain Italy Argentina Belgium and Spain reached Washington before New Year’s. Three elderly patients died in a frame house fire at the state insane hospital in Alton Illinois. Robert Wood Brown prominent Elks leader and editor died in Los Angeles. A private insane asylum fire in Tokyo killed at least thirteen, with 108 missing and fifty nearby homes burned.
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Wve
Reese
Washington
Georgetown University
Boston
France
Great Britain
Italy
Argentina
Belgium
Spain
Alton
Ill
State Insane Hospital
Tokio
Dr Charles F Smith Physician Dies in Des Moines
Dr. Charles F Smith 72, a prominent local physician and former Drake University medicine professor, died at his Des Moines home after several weeks illness. He began practicing in 1900 and was well known in the community.
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Chas. Smith
Des Moines
Des. Moines
Charles F. Smith
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Puble Sale
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Claud Deering
Western New
Washington Produce Markets
Merchamt Old Yard
Illinod
Mutual
R. L. Gibson
N. Marion Ave
Bayer
Wendell Hoover
Royal H. Bosshard
Milwaukee
Bosshard
Hoover
Fom.Sims
St Lou's News Today
Girl
Santa Claus
Utah
NEA Service, Inc
Have & Qasoe
Earth
Journal
SECT
Los Angeles
Robert Wood Brown
the Elks
The
Elks National Magazine
Harding’s
Ralph T Lewis
Mike Abigail Victoria Harding
Marton. O
Bermuda
Lewis
President Harding
Grace
Scot
Emmeline Marion Grace
Eugene Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Sir Michael William Selby Bruce
Robert Broce
Scotland
Wilson
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