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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1929
Page
14
A cluttered page lists community items: boards of thanks, obituaries, religious events, lost items, and vehicle ads. It includes public notices on motor transport schedules changes, tax and property listings, court notices, and notices of bankruptcies and probate actions.
Market notes show wool prices around 77 dollars and six cents with inquiries increasing. Buyers survey the market for staples and premiums as smaller lots trade at varied prices amid steady demand.
Keigh Count, once called the fastest American dirt horse, failed to perform in turf racing at Lingfield. Beigh Count, trained by John L. Diertz of Chicago, finished behind Caballeran in the Lingfield Handicap with the owner and her daughter watching.
Readable market notes show receipts around 10 000 with a steady to slower wholesale trend. Calves sell around 14 40 while dairy and beef cuts vary. vealers and spring lambs move modestly with quoted prices including 16 90 for vealers and about 12 percent bulk cuts.
Fragmentary text mentions ducks and geese with odd codes and numbers. No clear event, date, or identifiable organizations present. Recovered details are insufficient to determine a coherent news item.
Market notes list price holdovers in mar jute and various beef and lamb quotes. Beef cattle steady with steers around 90 to 105 per head, fat lambs near 146 to 160, fat ewes about 3, bulk fat lambs and cull stock shown with lower bid ranges.
Damaged OCR text shows partial details of a local public sale with readable fragments listing sale action and local officials.
Margaret Porter, 15, a junior at Amesville High School, died at 5 o clock this morning in Marietta Hospital after an attack of appendicitis. Daughter of Kitt Porter, a telephone operator in Amesville, her death comes as a shock to friends. Funeral arrangements have not been made.
Fragmentary OCR shows a timetable snippet mentioning Train No. 33 and departures from Athens around 5:30 am. The text is garbled but references the Rocking Valley area and a train schedule with times and stops.
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