Read It Again

90 years ago this week. Milk dealers in Leetonia have agreed to charge nine cents a quart for milk testing 4.5% fat, according to The Leetonia Reporter. Eight cents was charged for milk containing as high as 5.5% fat, prior to the agreement.

50 years ago this week. Emily Jones, of 13878 W. Calla Road in Salem, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Jones, was selected Ohio State Ayrshire Queen on Sunday at the State Ayrshire picnic at the Hedge View Farm of Normbert Pleiman in Ft. Loramie, Ohio.

25 years ago this week. Stephanie Shenigo’s smile kept getting bigger as the price of her 120-pound grand champion lamb kept getting higher until it peaked at a record $8.30 per pound, selling to a Bourgeois Excavating, breaking the 1995 record by $1.80.

To ancient Greeks and Romans, the “dog days of summer” began when Sirius, the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major —

For example, the wildfires of Canada — whose smoke has affected an estimated 70 million Americans in 32 states — have burned 25 million acres, or “an area roughly the size of Kentucky,” reported the New

Scorching. Phoenix, the nation’s fifth-largest city, actually isn’t on fire; it just feels that way. The good news — if there is any good news from a baking desert in early August — is that temperatures at the city’s main airport July 31 hit only 108 degrees Fahrenheit to end its burninghot, 31-days-long record streak of daily temperatures of 110 degrees or more. The previous record had been a relative walk-in-the-park 18 days

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