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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1933
Page
9
Train No 30 arrives Athens at 11 02 a m daily except Sunday. The service runs regularly with morning arrivals to serve passengers in the city.
Federal authorities capture Harvey J Bailey near Paradise Texas and claim to have solved the $190 000 kidnapping of Oklahoma City oil magnate Charles F Arachel They also accuse Bailey of leading a Memorial Day prison break at Kansas State Penitentiary and the Union Station massacre in Kansas City that killed four officers and a convict
D R Dodd of Ohio State University extension will explain the wheat allotment plan to eight farm leaders and invited caders at Athens Grange Hall Friday night at 8 15. T H Johnson the county extension agent will discuss the program and distribute federal forms for growers wishing to join the allotment plan along with maps and contracts to be filled in.
John B. Sleeper died in Topeka Kansas on July 31. Born September 1, 1842 in Athens he later moved with family to Columbus Oklahoma City and Lawton. A Pioneer Mortgage executive he served as VP of Pioneer Mortgage and asst treasurer before becoming VP in 1920. He married Viola Catron and is survived by wife son Jack Sleeper Jr a brother and three sisters.
New York trading opened dull as traders awaited grain price stabilization. Grains on the Chicago Board of Trade fell limits with wheat down 5 cents, corn 4, oats 3, halting due to no bids. Stocks slipped fractions then steadied. Allied Chemical down 3½ to 12½, Owens-Illinois Glass off 2½ to 73, others lower. Dun & Bradstreet index shows 100.40, amid wide shifts in commodities data.
The page compiles a dense roster of companies and sectors with varied percentages, naming firms such as American Can, Armour, DuPont, General Electric, Westinghouse, Warner Bros, Union Pacific, and others. It appears to be a snapshot of stock or index components with relative weightings or price moves, set in a period tone.
Garment workers in New York New Jersey and Connecticut walk out in a NRA driven strike for better conditions and higher pay. Some 60 000 workers affect the metropolitan area as the action unfolds. Milk prices rise in Toledo with quart at 10 cents and pint at 6 cents.
Dr. William F. Ogburn of the University of Chicago resigns from the NRA consumers advisory council after a dispute with Mrs. Mary Rumsey over board price checking policies. The frame depicts him at his desk prior to stepping down.
Live poultry rates list young chickens 16 22 cents, old heavy 13 14 cents, medium 10 1 cent, leghorna 6 cents, ducks white pekins 100 120, muscovy 0G 14e, puddle 8 cents.
The notice lists stock items including Butter-Packing No 2 Ide Bb No 3 100 butter fat and Bugs-Steady cases. It notes extra firstsde seconds ide and nearby ungraded ld we as part of the delivery and grading terminology.
Market notes show steady Bugs receipts about 6 300 cases with ex tra firste 12 percent and firsts 1 200 1290. Butter market stable with receipts 11 304 tubes and specials 19 percent. Extras 16K and extra firsts 17 percent.
Market notes show Butter Nearby tules with 82 score extras and 20c standards. Eells Nearby receipts with firsts 12 13c and fresh extras. Keenery white extras 17c. Poultry colored hens 12 1 cents, leghorns 90 10c, colored springers 13 16c, leghorn springers 10 12c. ducks 10c, geese 60 4c, fresh killed full dressed hens. hog dressed 190. turkeys young toms 10 12c, old toms 70 8c, young hens 13 1Sc.
Butter market remains steady with extras 22 cents per pound for tin tubs and standards. Current receipts 12 percent with extras firsts. Poultry market firm with heavy fowls and leghorns at 8 cents per pound, heavy broilers 14 cents, leghorn broilers licensed, ducks 8 to 10 cents, old roosters listed. Potatoes from New Jersey and Long Island sell at $2,702.75 per 100 pound sacks, mostly $2.75.
Readable fragments show perishable goods with prices in Ohio and Kentucky, including cabbage at 1.26 per unit, corn at 9 10915 cents, lettuce 10 percent basket, potatoes 100 lb bag at 2.75, tomatoes in baskets and 12 quart units, plus notes of too few sales to quote and stock mentions.
Cattle receipts around 400 and calves 100 steady to higher with steers 4.50 to 6.00 and 3.50 down to 2.50 for low grades. Hogs receipts about 3700 with 180 to 250 lb hogs up to 4.85 and sows about 3.24 to 3.30. Sheep and lambs receipts 2100 steady to weak with lambs 68 to 64.50 and fat ewes 1 to 2.'].?></analysis to=final code
Prices listed for Wheat Corn Oats Rye and seed clover with grade designations and weights. Local market figures show red and yellow corn varieties with mixed 54 percent and 60051 figures, plus butter creamery at 25 cents and hay values for timothy and alsike.
Liberty bond noon quotes show various series with differences across issuers. The report lists WB B’s OT 102.16 Lib. 1st 4’s WT 002.24 and other Treasuries with values including 82 110.19 86 4.26 and 3M 48. The date appears as March and mentions a wholesale or market-wide update.
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