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...victory, past a multitude whose cheers celebrated the extenuation of a legend, Clarence De Mar, the aged printer, chased by a number of Scandinavians, an up Exeter Street yesterday afternoon to better his previous records in the Boston Marathon by eight seconds. Outdistanced by not outsung by the extensive corn cure conducted by promoter Pyle, this local run has swelled recently and rapidly of an institution, and is one of the few from an endurance stunt to the dignity Boston institutions to escape the obloquy of the enlightened. And if, eight seconds in this instance seems as short...
Chicago finance has its delicacies of shade no less fine than those of Manhattan's stock market. Example: last week's "corn & hog parity" got alarmingly out of line. Dollar a bushel corn equals $10 per cwt. hogs or something is wrong in the stock yards. Corn for May delivery passed $1.03¼ a bushel whereas hogs "at Chicago" sold from $6.65 per cwt. undressed. Foreign corn demand has made golden maize too dear for U. S. pigs to eat & grow fat. The pigs must die lean & cheap. Overproduction of litters, weaned on high priced feed, plus...
Schneider went with Dr. C. T. Erickson to Albania to found a school there for the promotion of the agriculture among the people. Under the Turkish regime, inbreeding had been extremely common so that the cattle were of exceedingly poor stock, and the Albanian ear of corn was only four or five inches in length...
...pictures in the present exhibition, called the "Corn Dance", is particularly fine in design. Here is represented an invocation to the deities that have given the corn, provided for its germination, and brought it to maturity. A complete discussion of the major Corn Dance would involve the entire subjects of religion, social organization, and symbolism. From a purely artistic stand-point, the corn ceremonials commend themselves to those who appreciate a beautiful performance...
...Farm legislation. Smith has given no indication of his stand. Farm relief is a problem with which he has had little personal experience. He is not at home in the Corn Belt...