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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1929
Page
11
A dense listing shows categories from announcements and funeral goods to real estate, room rentals, livestock, and farm supplies. It mentions a vacation ad by Professor Fulton and a Vogue Hair Shop promotion, plus a Saturday night dance at the Green Goat and a Pomeroy dining room with baths on Route 41.
Parkersburg records 84 members of the New Stock Exchange as markets list industrial names from Atchison to Chesapeake and Dupont, with major firms such as General Motors and Timken-Detroit mentioned. Grain futures and commodity quotes show wheat corn rye oats and various forage prices, while overall market activity highlights price spreads and percentages across multiple sectors.
Local market lists lower prices with fresh gathered produce and firsts and seconds at 27 cents. Nearby ungraded vegetables and fruit details unclear in OCR.
Hogs receipts 1 960 holdover 27 market steady to higher with several weights listed. Cattle and calves receipts 650 market weak with light yearling steers and heifers around 109 to 114.30, beef cows 87.50 to 105, vealers 120 to 166.80, bulk stock and feeder cattle 94 to 100. Sheep receipts 2 600 with fat lambs and cull lambs priced around 12 to 60 and fat ewes at 3.50 to 4.96.
Hogs receipts 1250 head strong to be higher prices bids 240 to 350 Ibe. Cattle receipts none calves 175 market steady to weak bulk quotations listed for cows and vealers. Sheep receipts 200 steady to weaker market with top lambs around 13.25 and bulk fat lambs near 11.81 to 13.96, yearlings and other categories shown.
Live poultry hens 24 438 le roosters 18 18 geese 18 20¢ broilers 27 3le ducks 25 71 Ze Dressed poultry hens 40 97 48c Butter pirate bo 40 ble tubs 49% 50¢ Onio 46 47 Eyes fresh 97% 4le select 40 46¢ current receipts 31 34c
Wool prices in Boston show a strong trend with prices for territory 58s to 60s fly combing wools reported higher by most mills. Scoured basis quotes remain between 93 and 95 cents, with a tendency toward firmness though not a material advance.
Paris dispatch reports a continent wide Red Day with municipal police and federal troops on guard for anticipated demonstrations uprisings and sabotage threats across Europe amid communist mobilization.
Edward Brown aged 49 was killed when a heavy cable he was working under fell on him in Painesville. The tragedy occurred as Brown carried out duties at the site. Authorities investigated the incident and noted the safety procedures in place.
Central National Bank and the Security Bank, two leading Portsmouth institutions, merged today to form the Security Central Bank with capital surplus and undivided profits totaling 1.25 million dollars.
Daily and weekly rail departures from Athens with northbound and southbound schedules. Lists departures for No 3 9 2 6 and others to Athena Athens and basibecca with times in morning and evening slots. Western lines show Nos 21 43 22 44 and 4 with varied afternoon and overnight arrivals.
The note lists a word ladder ending with three syllables with changing first letter from b to d: Bogus Bonus Bones Tones Tunes Dunes Dukes. It presents a playful progression of near-rhymes.
At Camp Dix Colo on August 1 1920 De George Huntley Aron former commander of forty Chicago fasting pilgrims reappears to reassert leadership after Reverend Herman Arndt took over. Aron promises a post dark exhibition of psychic powers to prove his Truths while the main body of followers remains at their quarters.
Mr and Mrs Dixon Ashworth known as Brother and Sister Ashworth celebrated their 75th birthdays on the Athens Pomeroy road farm in Meigs County. They raised a large family, served as community church supporters, and spent life in prayer, duty, and helping others, with a long record of revival attendance and home worship.
The West Washington Street improvement is over one third finished under G. M. Romine. Old curbing is torn up, worn brick removed, and a 1090 foot sewer ditch dug from Pratt Street to Lancaster Street. Completion is expected in several weeks with work extending to Congress Street and cemetery streets.
A two day meeting at Congress Lake Country Club near Canton reports the United States Potters Association tariff committee supports a tariff hike. Some 75,000 American workers and dependents would be affected as potters push to raise duties to counter foreign goods priced at a fraction of U S labor costs.
Hoover's youngest son Alan Hoover in the White House under care for acute fever. He recently graduated from Stanford and visits prior to attending the summer session at George Beard University's Business School.
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