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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1927
Page
10
Short forms advertise various services including help wanted for any kind, life insurance notices, laundry service, and moving trucking storage. Listings mention Athens area contacts such as telephone numbers and names like Mrs. B Weisenbach and J A Wiseman with Athens Trucking Co details.
Local Nelsonville merchants promote cash prize tickets with ten prizes to be won. Scattered offers include Hummer toilet paper, rubber roofing, meats and vegetables, and a Ford 1924 coupe for 125 dollars, plus several vintage cars with prices.
The decedent’s estate is insufficient to cover debts and admin costs. Real property includes two tracts in Ohio: a part of Minear Farm near Athens and the east part of Lot 258 in Lancaster for sale to pay debts. W D Laird is named as defendant and must answer by August 31, 1927.
Grandma Sarah Jane Funderburk of Birmingham Alabama wears the same shoes she bought sixteen years ago. She has worn them nearly every day and has led them only once. The shoes cost three dollars when new and remain slightly worn but usable.
Market notes show butter receipts at 13 603 and 38 39 standards, eggs receipts 18 614 with firsts and seconds priced across a range. Poultry prices list fowls, leghorns, heavy springers, and roosters, while cheese includes Brick Swiss and York State varieties with domestic and imported distinctions.
Market notes show varied produce quotes with 404 percent figures for pA cream and eggs. Receipts list 6 264 nearby whites and 259 427 fresh firsts, with mixed whites at 20 39 and browns at 34 33, including Pacific coast values.
Hog receipts reach 4500 with steady to higher bids for light to mid weights. Cattle and calves show varied prices with beef steers around $12 and cows from $4.25 to $12, while sheep receipts total 700 reflecting steady market for fat lambs and ewes.
Livestock receipts include 4 000 animals with cattle at 9 566 dollars in funds and 11 50 per 100 weight quotes. Calves and heifers show prices from 10 50 to 15 50 with heavy calves around 6 to 12 dollars. Sheep receipts reach 2 100 with lambs around 14 25 and cull lambs near 8 dollars as market remains steady to stronger.
An opinion from Attorney General Turner may affect the trial of Cleveland bandit Joseph Specs Russell. Turner argues a second offender should not be returned to Mansfield Reformatory but sentenced to the Ohio Penitentiary. There is dispute over Russell’s age as he is alleged to have served at Mansfield.
About two hundred police and Republican guard members armed with rifles gathered around the United States embassy in Paris. Guards on foot and horseback questioned all would be visitors to the embassy.
Daily and Sunday passenger train times for Hocking Valley and Baltimore and Ohio routes from Athens. Southbound and northbound departures list specific times with numbers 2 4 33 26 57 and arrivals 30 32 14 for various days.
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