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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1927
Page
8
Short advertisement items list services and goods available. Laundry service invites help, Athens Home Laundry, phone 6931. Moving trucks insured, Athens Trucking Co., phone 791. Model Home Bakery bakes bread for grocers. Dalton's Grocery advertises shopping options and phone contact.
Local ad mentions high quality meats with coolers kept iced and clean plus a splendid line of fresh fruits and vegetables. Cash prize tickets offer 10 prizes. Also lists auto ads and hardware, plumbing services, and several classic car for sale followed by a lengthy legal notice about W D Laird and estate debts with property descriptions and a required answer date.
A jumble of crossword clues appears in a historical puzzle section asking about cities, rivers, deities, alphabet letters, celestial terms, anatomical parts, and other general knowledge items. The chaotic read includes garbled phrases and stray notes like yesterday's answer and notes on public notices.
Birmingham Alabama resident Grandma Sarah Jane Funderburk wears the same pair of shoes her family bought 16 years ago. She has worn them nearly every day and only half a day once, saying the shoes were three dollars when new and remain serviceable despite slight wear.
New York markets show adjusted butter and cheese receipts with varied standards and firsts. Chicago and Cleveland listings detail creamery butter, cheese bricks, and poultry values with multiple grades and weights across regional markets.
New York market notes steady butter receipts 8 783 cream and extras 40 percent. Eggs show firm demand with nearby white fancy 40 42 and nearby mixed whites 20039. Other listings include fresh firsts 2514027 western whites 26932 Pacific coast 26 37 and nearby browns 34 33.
Hogs receipts 598 with steady price trend. Prices for 250 350 pounds at 86.50. Calves and beef cattle show varied values from 4.25 to 14.00. Sheep receipts 700 with top fat lambs around 14.25 and bulk fat lambs, cull lambs and ewes in the 4.50 to 6.50 range. Weather noted as a factor across markets.
The market shows cattle bids at 11.50 to 11.90 with ranges for steers and heifers. Vealers bring 13.50 to 15.50 while heavy calves sell 6.00 to 12.00, and sheep receipts total 2,100 with fat lambs up to 14.25 and bulk lambs 8.00 to 10.50.
Attorney General E. C. Turner delivered an opinion to the state board of clemency arguing a second offender, regardless of age, should be sent to the Ohio penitentiary rather than Mansfield Reformatory. The ruling concerns Joseph Specs Russell, a Cleveland bandit, with dispute over his age and prior Mansfield service noted.
About two hundred police and Republican guard members armed with rifles patrolled around the United States embassy in Paris. Guards on foot and horseback questioned all would be visitors to the embassy.
Daily trains depart and arrive at Athens with southbound and northbound routes. No. 2 leaves at 12 26 p m, No. 4 at 4 33 p m, southbound. Northbound No. 33 at 7 15 a m, No. 2 12 10 p m, No. 37 at 6 30 p m. No. 30 arrives Athens 11 08 a m. Sunday omissions and Baltimore & Ohio services noted.
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