The Theft of Abner Halliday and a Desperate Love Plot
A wealthier uncle is found gagged and robbed of forty thousand dollars as the Halliday family drama unfolds. Tom, Bruce, Clare, and Mrs. Dace drive the suspense with detective Le Duc exploring who in the house may hold the key and the motive. Tom pledges to win wealth and love while facing dangerous temptation.
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Abner Halliday
Tom
Bruce Halliday
Clare Winton
Bruce
Vie
Ency
William LaDuc
Viti
Gtocka
le Duc
Clara
Clare
Mackay
Midas
Mrs. Dace
Algo
Made
Market News Report From Chicago Board of Trade
Liberal weakness in wheat as receipts rise northwest of Chicago. Wheat May opens at about 1.04 and fluctuates, closing near 1.04. Corn softens with weak cash demand, May around 68 to 69 cents. Oats slide with corn, May about 42 to 43 cents. Hog prices push provisions higher, May pork about 16.26 to 16.49, lard near 9.40, ribs about 8.85.
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Chicago
Chicago and St Louis Live Stock Market Roundup
Evening market notes show St Louis receipts at 3 300 cattle 6 000 hogs and 6 600 sheep with mixed gains across cattle hog and sheep sectors. Kansas City reports 8 009 cattle and 8 000 hogs with higher openings while Chicago commodities list butter eggs cheese poultry and produce with steady to higher hog and cattle futures and steady cheese levels.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Alahet Heavy
Muttans
Chicago
Fed
Grain and Provisions Prices and Live Stock Report
Chicago market notes show cash wheat and corn prices with mixed bids and New York, St. Louis, and Minneapolis closes. Live stock values rose on cold weather with steers up 16 to 25 cents, hogs gaining 16 cents and lambs adding 10 cents to top at 6.95 for prime westerns.
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Chicago
Waterloo Markets Flour and Grain Prices Record
Market listing notes flour and grain prices in Waterloo with multiple items including Sheen Pelts and Fuil wooled lambs priced per unit. The short OCR fragment shows unit prices ranging from 0.20 to 1.50 for lambs and .75 to 1.50 for pelts and wool.
Laugh at Others Jokes and Grow Popular Says Poem
A humorous verse urges laughing at others jokes to gain popularity. It praises carefree mirth as gentle charity and notes top laughs come from a few people while urging relentless joviality even at the expense of dignity.
Jones Never Finishes a Sentence at Home
A man tries to tell a tale starting with “Jones said to me” but is interrupted by his wife and sister-in-law. The chatter shifts to neighbors fashions and a divorce filing while he endures dinner. He admits he cannot finish a sentence at home.
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Jones
Retribution at the Station Amid Kidnap Plot
A young man wearing a bed on his hat brim is seized at a station by several men who drag him through the terminal and tear his clothing before forcing him into a carriage. An officer intervenes as the group explains they are married men seeking to punish the alleged ringleader. The officer orders safety and to move him to town edge with a gag to quiet his yells.
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Bruce
LeDue
Beethoven
Awe Atheart
This Busy World
The column notes a world of simultaneous events from war and floods to strikes and politics. It contrasts major global concerns with everyday concerns like fall fashions and wardrobes as people seek practical fixes for winter attire.
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Taft
Canada
Harmon
Clark
Woodrow Wilson
Lorimer
Cavaliera
Henry's Falling
A mourner recalls Henry's death with disbelief and a comment that Henry was carefree about his responsibilities, as others console the widow and mention a hopeful afterlife.
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Henry
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Neb
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