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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1924
Page
10
A list of classified ad categories follows including Wanted Business Service Help Wanted and Real Estate. A Ford Roadster 1920 model is advertised with condition notes and location in Millfield Ohio. The page outlines rates editing rights and phone requests for want ads.
A rare perfect leaf from the 1450 Gutenberg Bible, the first movable type book, led a Hadley library sale in Moundsville WV fetching 15 477 dollars. The sale also included a 1593 Nuremberg Chronicle with pigskin cover, bought for 155 dollars, and Hawthorne Scarlet Letter first issue at 40 dollars. The Fourth Folio of Shakespeare from 1686 topped the prices at 370 dollars.
Heads of high school fraternities conferred with legal counsel to decide how to proceed in the union board action to bar membership for students in fraternities and sororities in Cincinnati Ohio.
Five bandits swooped on the Granite City National Bank as T. D. Gradinatos entered with the Rollins Mills payroll. The bag containing $63,000 was seized and the assailants fled in an automobile, firing bullets at bank officials.
Three bandits robbed two Interstate Plastering Co employees in Detroit today, taking payroll funds totaling 2100 dollars. The incident occurred in Petroit on April 25. Local police investigate the holdup and pursue suspects.
Charles F. Murphy, a longtime Tammany leader, was honored on the U S Senate floor today after his death was announced. The acknowledgment marks a rare tribute for an American political figure.
Christian Monnier of Versailles and Horace Brot of Geneva arrive in Athens to visit Judge M. Johnson over the weekend. Monnier, who served with Johnson in World War I, is now a banker studying American banking in Wall Street. The pair will tour the South and Middle West and stay from Saturday night through Monday morning, with a Country Club dinner hosted by Judge and Mrs. Johnson.
Washington officials sought confirmation of reports that American bluejackets were killed in Honduras amid revolutionary disturbances. Nine officers and about 150 sailors from the cruiser Milwaukee were in Tegucigalpa to protect lives and property, with no confirmed casualties yet. Sumner Wells reportedly secured a conference between warring factions aboard the Milwaukee at Amapala.
The spring arrival marked the first baby buffalo born this year at the New York zoo. The calf, named Cody, represents the zoo's ongoing efforts to bolster its herd and attract visitors with new arrivals.
The Detroit balloon, representing Detroit aviation society in the National race, was forced to land about five miles from Dubuque Iowa after being caught in a severe electrical storm early today. The craft had traveled roughly one thousand miles.
Four Central American republics Guatemala Nicaragua San Salvador and Costa Rica were invited by the United States to send delegates to the Honduras peace conference held on the cruiser Milwaukee at Amapala.
New York markets report demand for sterling at 4.375, franc cables 6.31, live cables 4.46, checks 44,544, marks 0,000,23 per million, guilders 3,720, checks 8,717. Sweden krona cables 2,632, checks 2,628, Norway krone cables 1,392, checks 1,388, Denmark krone cables 1,680, checks 1,676.
Open ing Liberty Bonds quotes show 3s at 99.23, second 4s at 100.2, third 4s at 100.1, fourth 4s at 100.3, new 4 1 4 85 at 100.19 in New York on April 25.
Limited volume trading sees fractional advances across the list as oils firm. Pacific gains to 47 1 2, Pan American to 44 1 2, Producers and Refiners up 1 to 26 1 4, while assorted industrials and rails show modest moves in early trading.
Butter receipts reported at 6 804 tubs with Creamery Extra at 37 cents and Extra Firsts at 36 cents, Firsts at 35 cents. Packing stock listed at 26 cents. Market details reflect Chicago produce trading statuses and price levels.
Grain prices listed for Toledo show cash bids for wheat at 111 112, corn at 83 1-2, oats 54 55, rye 68, barley 77, clover old 1350 asked new 1100 asked, alsike 950, August 950, timothy 370 asked May 375 asked September 400.
Supplies: cattle 800 head steady. hogs receipts 4500 head with active and steady demand. Prime hogs quoted at 7.80. medium 8.00 to 8.05. heavy Yorkers 8.00 to 8.05. light Yorkers 7.25 to 7.50. Pigs 16.50 to 6.75. roughs 5.50 to 6.25. stags 3.00 to 3.50.
Cattle receipts 1100 market weak to 15 25 cents lower with steers good to choice 10 dollars. calves steady at 9 to 10. Hogs receipts 4006 market steady to 775 for good to choice packers and butchers. Sheep receipts 350 market steady with good to choice 7.14 to 7.1650 for lambs.
Hog receipts 27 000 market steady with ranges for heavy and light weights. Cattle receipts 3 000 with steer and heifer prices and butcher stats. Sheep receipts 19 900 with firm market and price bands for lambs ewes and feeder lambs.
The schedule lists K. and M. Trains with northbound departures from Athens at 6:33 am 11:05 am and 2:51 pm and southbound departures at 12:25 pm 5:31 pm and 9:00 pm. Hocking Valley shows northbound trains at 6:50 am 11:45 am and 6:00 pm with southbound arrivals at 10:40 am 5:10 pm and 9:15 pm. Baltimore and Ohio Eastbound and Westbound local trains run on a daily or near daily basis with morning and evening times and Sunday exceptions noted.
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