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...German imperialist embers. Two thousand adherents of abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II gathered at Dresden, were addressed by his daughter-in-law, ex-Crown Princess Cecilie. What she said did not amount to much but she joined in Hochs! and handclaps when General Bock von Wuelfingen went the whole hog, demanded the end of the German Republic and restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. Though this was certainly treason, Dresden police made nothing of it, stood about grinning, saluted ex-Crown Princess Cecilie when she went home...
...Chicago's noisome Packingtown they arrived by carload lots. Penned up in long alleys they rooted, grunted and jostled one another with muddy, clammy snouts. In between them marched the buyers for the great meat companies, poking their porky flanks and paunches with sticks and crying the cry of hogs, "Tsaa, tsaa, tsaa." With swift gestures and few words the buyers made their purchases. Four times a day the results were broadcast and in the great hog States there was gladness on the farms. For last week the price of hogs was still rising. Speculators who had "tried a turn...
Because of a bearish Government forecast, farmers had expected their hogs to fetch bad prices all summer. But last week they were selling as high as $5.15 a hundredweight against $3.40 on June 1. Because farmers have needed money so badly that they have sold their hogs right along it was expected that no sudden rush of pigs to market would upset the hog-cart. In Iowa where 13 million hogs are born and fattened every year, the rise from June 1 to last week's average price made a difference of $40,000,000 figuring each hog...
...Hog callers, calling in despair. Pigsties, postoffices everywhere...
...incinerator, or, as his wife says, laid away in lavender. State Fair, the 13th, is his first to be published, is the Literary Guild selection for May. Belonging to the fourth generation of lowans on both sides of the family, Author Stong was noted for hay-pitching and hog-calling in his youth, became a journalist later on. He foundered with the New York World when it went down, landed in an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam). The unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than by his hometown knowledge of the farmer-philosopher civilization...