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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1933
Page
13
Opinionated ad copy argues for honest values with direct statements. It frames persuasive messaging as unnecessary by presenting straightforward factual assertions about integrity and trustworthy conduct. The piece emphasizes transparency and practical ethics over rhetoric.
Trading data shows diverse moves across rail, industrial and steel stocks with gains for railroad names such as reading pennsylvania and union pacific while steel firms like american rolling mills and republic iron show firm quotes. Several consumer goods groups including duPont gillette and te general mills list modest advances in today’s session with broader index activity muted.
New York trading opened with uneven losses as utilities and industrials fluctuated. Declared dividends and narrow guidance weighed on major names while silver rose and bonds firmed, with cattle and hog markets showing mixed receipts in Cincinnati and grain prices easing in Toledo.
Markets show butter and eggs with varied quotes across grades and regions. Fresh and nearby receipts mix with current prices for butter eggs poultry and related products, noting steady to unsettled trends and firm market conditions in New York Pennsylvania Ohio and neighboring states.
Live Stock Hog receipts 1800. market steady with 240 lb to 290 lb pigs at 4.20 to 4.20. Cattle receipts 12c. market unchanged with steers 4.65 to 5.50, yearlings 4.65 to 5.50, heifers 3.45 to 5.05, cows 3.25, bulls 2.85. Calves receipts 150. market steady to lower with good to choice 40 to 50. Sheep receipts 1000. market weak with good to choice shorn lambs 64.50, some to 57.8, good shorn wethers 2.75 downward.
Gov George White proclaims May 1 as Child Health Day to be celebrated in Athens County with Play Day programs across schools. Miss Florence Stein leads events plus the annual Field Meet on Friday. About 1 900 000 Ohio school children are expected to participate statewide. Plans are directed by John Mc Sweeney H G Southard and B Skinner with cooperation across schools religious and civic groups. Programs include pre school exams health facility inventories and defects correction before school entry. Athens activities focus on Play Day events with competitive athletics and awards. Parent Teacher units back the plan. The first Play Day event was held at Amenville on Friday April 21.
Dana Fick and family away at Chester commencement when a fire destroyed the two story frame house on the Tuppers Plains Road four miles from Chester. Neighbors alerted the Ficks who could save only insurance papers. Fire believed to start about 8:30 p.m. Cause undetermined. Loss partially covered by insurance.
Miss Emma Hoffner aged four percent of Naylors Run died Wednesday afternoon from a throat infection after tonsillitis. Funeral services set for Friday at Peace Church with Rev Theophil Meir officiating. Burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Survived by father John four brothers August Fred Charles Albert and two sisters Mrs Harvey Pierce and Mrs Helen Ralph.
Wet weather slows planting for Athens County farmers, especially oats and grass seed. County agent T. H. Johnson suggests sowing alfalfa with winter wheat as a nurse crop since oats are late to plant. He notes oats should be paired with alfalfa and clover, and favors mixtures like alfalfa with alsike clover and timothy for better odds on uplands.
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