Daily Market Reports Hogs and Cattle Market Summary
Chicago market notes show hog receipts 25 000 with holds 17 236 and bids mostly 5 to 10 cents higher for good to choice hogs 170 to 240 pounds. Cattle fed steers and yearlings up slightly, vealers strong, western grasses included. Lambs open steady to higher with natives top around 14.00 and feeders firm. sheep steady. Grain bids from Beach Wickham show rye and oats steady, corn and wheat active. Tomorrow hogs 22 000 cattle 3 000 sheep 10 000. Liverpool wheat futures higher for options.
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Chicago
Monster Egg Found in Madagascar in Revealing Find
Scientists report a perfect gepyornis egg unearthed in Madagascar dating to ancient times. Only twelve such eggs are known, with measurements around 0 by 15 inches, twice the size of ostrich eggs. The extinct sepyornis resembled the ostrich in appearance.
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Madagascar
Wedding Lyric from a Scotch Rowing Song
A Boston Evening Transcript note presents a lyric described as a Scotch rowing song yet read as a wedding guest’s jibe as he hurled a missile at the couple. The quip reflects a playful, contentious lyric circulating in a catalogue.
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Speed
Bonnie Boot
Ike
Boston Evening Transcript
Farm Sale Dates Announced Near Washington Iowa
A sequence of upcoming livestock and land auctions listed around Washington and nearby towns. Poland China and Duroc hog sales feature at East End Garage and other locations from Sept. 25 through Oct. 18, with Jersey hog and Hampshire sale events noted in Keota and surrounding areas. Local sellers include J. M. Lord Son, Hillhouse and Reig hard, Forest Embree, and Knotek Bros among others.
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W. R. Gamon & Sons
East End
Washington
Iowa
Poland
China
Duroee Jersey
Knotek Bros
Germany Playing Horse Says Polk on Ruhr and Reparations
Des Moines veteran Harry Polk returning from Europe asserts Germany is bluffing to avoid paying for wartime devastation. He notes French troops may leave the Ruhr once Germany commits to work and pay reparations, while France appears prosperous and England suffers unemployment. Veterans urge a role in postwar treaties and support a world court to reduce future wars.
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Germany
Harry Polk
Des Moines
Ruhr
France
Europe
Polk
Veterans
United States
Interallied Veterans Association
Brussels
Belgium
Britian
Rumania
Bis
Mr. Polk
England
Help for Girls Who Work in Tyrone Letter Praises Vegetable Compound
A Tyrone Pennsylvania housewife writes that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound relieved her nervous weakness and left side pains and restored strength for housework and factory work. She calls the remedy reliable and body building and urges other women to try it, noting the letters reveal the product’s merit.
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Tyrone
Lydia E. Pinkham
Iowa Victims of White Plague Reach 4590
Des Moines reports the 1922 tuberculosis death rate and case load in Iowa and the United States. The advance bulletin from the Iowa Tuberculosis Association and the state card of control notes 4590 Iowa cases and 63000 nationwide, with economic losses per case and school absenteeism.
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Des Moines
United States
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
State Card of Control
Iowa
State Eyes Driver Licensing Bill To Cut Accidents
Des Moines reports a move by the state automobile department to seek driver licensing through a bill for the next legislative session. Eastern states already require licenses with examinations and revocation for incompetence or carelessness, aiming to reduce motor vehicle accidents.
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Des Moines
State Automobile Department
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Germans Use Briquettes as Fines Value in Berlin Court
Berlin court uses briquettes as a unit of value to curb mark depreciation. A gambler received 500 pounds worth of briquettes or their value in jail time and fines. Docets set fees by a bushel of rye and many factories wage in butter or lard to stabilize earnings amid volatile marks.
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Berlin
Austria Ads on New Small Change Stamps
Vienna reports a novel coinage idea where postage stamps of various values are embedded in cellulose disks. One side shows a stamp while the other side carries merchant advertisements for local businesses.
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Vienna
Austria
American Legion to launch statewide December membership push
Iowa Department of the American Legion plans a mass campaign starting in December to complete next year’s rolls by January 1. A Pullman tour with state officers and the national commander will visit every district for daily meetings and public sessions.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa Department
American Legion
Legion
Proposals For Highland Schoolhouse Erection Sealed
Notice states proposals for erection or repair of a Highland schoolhouse in Washington County will be received at the secretary's home with plans and specifications available there until 1 p m September 22 1923. Contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder with right to reject all bids. Sept 12 1923. A little For sale ad will sell it
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Highland
Washington
Tyrol Plungers Loot Casinos Near Innsbruck
Plungers including several Americans broke three gambling banks in Tyrol mountain resorts near Innsbruck. The casinos had been open less than a week when the thieves swooped in and carried off all the cash.
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Associated Press
Innsbruck
Austria
Tyrol
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