Brighton Notes and Local Changes in Fairfield Area
Brighton items report visits and travels including Mrs Clarence Kessell returning to Fairfield from Geo Drish home and the Goodman family from Yukon Oklahoma. Local business leases and housing moves include Mrs Dave Irwin and daughter Ray Singleton leasing a building and Gail Conrad moving west of the grade school. Two basketball games saw Eldon teams defeated. scarlet fever cases rise with Lyle Cleveland and Doris Whisler named.
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Brighton
Clarence Kessell
Fairfield
Geo
Drish
Walter Goodman
Yukon
Okla
Tom Gassaway
Hardorph
Ill
Mr. Goodman
Shafit
Dave Irwin
Ray Singleton
Anna Day
Gilbert
Kirksville
Roy Decker
Glen Courtney
Nortons
Joe White
Conrad
Eldon
Dorothy Hord
Cedar Rapids
J. G. Heacock
Merle Lunger
Q. Depot
Jamison and Hill Electric
Aus Sutherland
Ingham Farm
H. Hessel
Resser
Glen Beauchamps
Yeo
McClintic Place
Mary Helmick
John, McClintic
Laura Bennett
Wayland
Daily Market Reports Chicago Hog and Cattle Prices
Hogs receipts 8,000, prices mostly 10 cents higher with top 7.30 for 200 to 300 pound butchers. better grades 160 to 190 pounds 7.00 to 7.20. packing cows 6.25 to 6.60. slaughter pigs 4.25 to 6.25. Cattle receipts 1,000 with beef steers and feeders 25 to 40 cents higher. fat stock 5.00 to 7.00. veal calves 10.50 to 12.00. week totals show beef steers 8.00 to 10.00, stockers 6.50 to 7.25, fat stock 5.00 to 7.00. Sheep receipts about 25,000 with fat lambs and yearlings up around 75 cents, top fat lambs 16.45, best feeding lambs 16.15, fat ewes 9.00 to 19.00, feeding lambs 14.00 to 15.00.
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Chicago
Mar
Kansas City
Kansas City Livestock Market Report Summary
Kansas City stockyards report week of sales with cattle receipts 500 on cattle and 38 000 hogs. Beef steers strong to 25 higher with tops to 10.10 per hundredweight. commercial cows and heifers 25 35 cents higher. Hogs steady with shipper tops 7.10 and packer tops 7.00. lambs 35 to 50 cents higher with ewes near 9.85.
East St. Louis Livestock Market Report
East St. Louis Illinois March 1 hogs receipts 5500 active to 10 cents higher top 7.15. cattle receipts 250 with light yearlings and heifers down 36 to 50 cents. beef steers top 9.75 for the week and cows 4.50 to 5.50. sheep receipts 1500 with fat lambs 50 cents higher and best yearling wethers 13.50.
Estimated Livestock Monday Hogs 64 000 Cattle 21 000 Sheep 18 000
The report lists Monday livestock estimates with hogs at 64 000 cattle 21 000 and sheep 18 000. The figures reflect regional animal counts for the market period.
First Intercollegiate Boat Races Between Yale and Harvard
The earliest college boat races occurred in Boston harbor between Yale student boats. In 1844 the contestants included an eight oared gig and a dugout canoe. The first Intercollegiate race in 1852 featured Yale and Harvard crews on Lake Winnipesaukee in eight oared barges over two miles.
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Yale
Boston Harbor
Harvard
Lake Winnipesaukee
Egyptians Built Fast Boat Hulls Four Thousand Years Ago
Carl Mitman at the Smaithsonian Institution notes ship models showing Egyptians designed hulls for speed nearly 4,000 years before modern designers. Vikings and Malay pirates also anticipated efficient wave handling while English and American boats lagged behind.
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King Tut
Carl Mitman
Smaithsonian Institution
Wheat prices rise on tariff hopes and tight stocks
Chicago traders saw wheat edge higher on tariff expectations and slim farm reserve stocks, with May at 1.10 to 1.11 and July near 1.11. Corn and oats slumped then recovered with wheat, while futures for March contracts weakened by liberal deliveries in provisions markets.
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Chicago
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wheat and grain price standings in Chicago markets
Chicago daily grain quotes show wheat prices for No 3 red at 1.09 1.10 and various hard wheats around 1.11 to 1.14. Corn values range from No 3 mixed 77 78% to No 6 white 72, oats near 47 49, rye No 2 around 70, barley at 78 80, and seeds and fats: timothy 6.00 8.25, clover 16.50 23.50, lard and ribs about 9.37 to 10.95.
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Chicago
Mar
Potatoes Market Reports Mixed in Chicago Trade
Chicago market notes show a strong to weak potato market with 53 car receipts. Wisconsin round whites priced 1.10 to 1.25 per sack, dusties 1.30 to 1.35, bulk whites 1.25 to 1.40. Minnesota Red River and Ohio sacked prices 1.30 to 2.30 for various varieties. Idaho Russell sacks 2.00 to 2.30. Nebraska Bliss Triumphs 1.50 to 1.60.
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Otato
Chicago
Mar
Wisconsin
Dusties
Minnesota
Red River Ohips
Idaho
Russell
Nebraska
Bliss
Wire Troubles: Animals Disrupt Telephones Across Region
A wave of animal interference disrupts telephone service as bears mistake wire hums for bees, squirrels chew lead sheaths, ants and beetles corrode metal, and spiders span wires with webs causing short circuits when dew forms.
Merchant urged to notice ad in the Journal reference
A shopper recalls telling a merchant I saw your ad in the Journal, highlighting how local readers respond to advertisements. The remark underscores the journal’s role in linking buyers and sellers in the community.
Cost of the War Estimates Total Costs
Economists and statisticians evaluate World War expenses. Professor Bogart under Carnegie Endowment figures direct costs at 185,535,687,607 dollars and indirect costs at 151,612,542,500 dollars, totaling 857,046,170,667 dollars.
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Wil Bee
Warty
Bogart
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Chinese Speed Enthusiasm Causes Carefree Joy Rides
A venturing poor laborer spends his last cash on a motor car ride to satisfy a craving for speed, only to be stranded far from home. He trudges back, convinced the expenditure was worthwhile, reflecting a common attitude among passersby.
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Hin
Vretpee
No Kissing in South Seas Revealed by Traveler
A traveler from the South Seas notes that there are no kissing customs among the savages, challenging common romantic myths about island life and highlighting the rarity of such etiquette in that culture.
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South Seas
Fingle
South Sea
Isliads
Italy Dominates World Lemon Trade in Early 1920s
The article notes Italy supplied the bulk of lemons to world markets with about 4 million boxes in 1920 and 1921, roughly half the prewar level of 8 million. The UK imported about 1 million boxes in 1921, following 700 thousand in 1920 and 100 thousand in 1913, while Germany and the Netherlands rank as major lemon importers after the UK.
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Italy
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
Man Equates Human Strength to Ant Jaw Power
Fragmentary line discusses comparing human strength to an ant’s mandibles and imagines needing three railroad cars of concrete at a time to match. The garbled text implies a thought experiment on scale and labor.
Market Poultry and Live Stock Prices Listing
A dated market notice lists prices for eggs and various poultry items by grade and weight, with hens, leghorns, and swan types priced per pound and per head. It notes higher payments for poultry delivered and includes beef and horse hide pricing.
Market Prices From Fresh Markets Listing Various Hides and Poultry
A fragmented market pricing note lists items from W. S. Reister & Sons including fresh exes, cream in two grades, hens by weight and breed, leghorn, roosters, ducks, pigeons, swans and geese with per pound or per head rates. Beef hides priced per pound or per hundredweight, with rough figures and misspellings reflected from the OCR.
Contested Texas Senate Seat Ballot Counting Underway
Ballot counting has started in the contested Texas senatorial race. George B. Peddy Wittings defeated Senator Mayfield who backed by the Ku Klux Klan. The photo shows W F Robertson Dallas supervisor for Peddy, Col FE P Thayer Indianapolis central counting supervisor, and Bob Mason Fort Worth supervisor for Mayfield.
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Texas
George B. Pedy
Mayfield
Ku Klux Klan
W. F. Robertson
Dallas
Peddy
FE. P. Thayer
Inianapolis
Bob Mason
Fort Worth
Tex
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Daily Market Reports
Chicago Grain
Chicago Cash Grain
WVUN
John A Babcock
Exchange Commission
Illinois
Beach-Wickham Grain CO
Trade
Burlington
Iowa
Navy
Edwin Denby
Denby
Washington
Mutual
R. L. Gibson
W. S. Reister & Sons
East Washington St
Tye
Clask Street
Madison Street
Belgium
Henry P. Moetcher
U. S
WashtAu'n Chil
D. Rittenhouse Estate
March
Joe Jones
Crawfordsville
Frank J. Gould
Cannes
Suzanne Lenglen
Suzanne
Senate
Palestine
Holyland
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