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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1922
Page
3
The fragment references multiple states including Carolina Georgia Florida and Kentucky. It notes fair to pleasant conditions Tuesday with moderate temperatures. Tonight, some areas expect changes with warmer trends on Tuesday, especially in the extreme west.
Wanted to exchange a real good farm near the city for a solid business and a suitable city property. Address Exchange in the Banner-Herald for details.
Opening grain prices jump on Liverpool demand and improved political finance signals. Wheat gains led by strong futures. corn and oats show mixed moves. Cattle receipts up with steer prices steady to higher. hogs rise in early trading, with butchers firm. Lambs and sheep trade slow as markets adjust.
A mixed update covers Empire Gas debentures and various City Service securities with common and preferred stocks. Chicago potatoes show steady or weak trends across regions with notable price ranges. Savannah turpentine and cotton receipts, shipments, and stock levels are reported. New York dairy and sugar markets show raw sugar and refined values with a general price movement noted.
New York reports bar silver prices and Liberty bonds closing levels. Money market shows firm call money with a ruling rate near 3 1 4 percent and varied time loans. Foreign exchange quotes cover multiple European and American currencies with irregular demand and mixed cable rates.
A condensed tangle of stock quotes shows Allied Chemical and American Locomotive among widely traded issues. The list includes Am Int Corp, Am Sugar, American Tobacco, Gulf and W Indies, Bethlehem Steel B, Canadian Pacific, Central Leather, Chesapeake and Ohio, Chicago Mil St Paul, Erie, Famous Players Lasky, General Electric, General Motors, Goodrich, Great Northern, Kennecott, Louisville Nashville, Mexican Petroleum, New York Central, North American Hartford, Northern Pacific, Pennzoil, Pure Oil, Ray Consolidated, Consolidated Gas, and others. The page reflects fractional percentages and trading levels typical of a market summary era.
The edition reports unchanged good middling cotton at 22 1 2 cents in Athens and notes steady to mixed cotton futures in New York and New Orleans with prices around 22 cents. It also advertises the Palace Theatre feature Nancy From Nowhere starring Bebe Daniels, highlighting dramatic romance and forest fire sequences.
Franklin County residents report water with an odd taste linked to nearby wells and a cemetery. Judge W L Little previously abandoned his well. locals suspect contamination and a gasoline tank rumor at Wansley’s garage. Banks and others face skepticism as oil-like seepage myths spread amid city-tank suspicions.
Fox photoplay starring William Farnum as Edmund Kean comes to the Palace, adapted by Paul H. Sloane from the elder Dumas play. The Palace Special Wednesday promises drama and spectacle with Drury Lane action and favorable advance notices. The slide also notes a separate release Old Ship's Tavern and a major Thursday Friday event The Storm, Athens first in the South after a New York run.
Report notes that a bone dry bill is to be prepared by several deputies as Congress opens. General P Elias Calles, interior secretary, and De La Huerta, treasury minister, advocate strict prohibition modeled after the Volstead Act though passage is uncertain.
heavy freight and passenger engines run over the newly completed Ohio river bridge of the Southern Railway System. The first train, passenger train 25 led by Enu Bincer J E Lester and Conductor Thomas Quinlin, crossed at 4 pm. Opening the bridge promises faster freight and passenger service between Cincinnati and the South, reducing need for wagon transfers at LudlowKy.
Monday morning police court sat with a slim docket. One man named John Smith faced arraignment on idling and loitering after a local paper carried a letter allegedly written by him. Two others in the same house, G. G. Smith and J. B. Smith, were mentioned. G. G. Smith was reported sick in bed, while J. B. Smith was described as not a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Crowley observed proceedings.
In the Northern District of Georgia Eastern Division the creditors of H D Lewallen Athens Clarke County are notified that on August 26 1922 he was adjudicated bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors will be held in Athens Georgia September 7 1922 at 12 o'clock noon to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact other business. Dated Athens Ga August 28 1922 Howell Cobb Referee In Bankruptcy.
The fragment refers to court hearings and two white girls aged 13 named Moselle Langford and Henderson awaiting actions. It mentions a person named Joost and a case involving HAY Rhonde with a cape issue. Details are fragmentary and unclear about charges or outcomes.
Washington report says Senate leaders and advisers favor legislation to improve fuel transport and distribution. It notes possible government operation of rail coal properties and creation of a federal agency with interstate commerce powers to accelerate settlement of the coal crisis as the Mayflower talks suggested.
Geneva dispatch reports Swiss delegation to the League of Nations backs German admission and universal approach. Midland Way timetable shows Gainesville service including No. 3 daily at 6:46 am to Gainesville and No. 12 on Sundays, with No. 1 leaving Gainesville at 5:50 pm for local points. Georgia Railroad schedules list arrivals and routes from Union Depot toward Augusta Point and Atlanta with listed times.
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