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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1924
Page
7
Market notes show produce prices for Ohio and surrounding areas with items such as apples, cabbage, potatoes, and tomatoes listed by unit. Pittsburg live stock prices cover cattle, veal calves, sheep and lambs, hogs, and related receipts with varying price ranges and market conditions.
Opening Liberty bonds list prices for 3s 4s and 44s with figures for first and second groups. Major names include American Can American Smelting Anaconda Atchison Baldwin Locomotive Baltimore & Ohio Canadian Pacific Crucible Steel Erie General Electric Inspiration Copper International Paper Marine pfd Norfolk & Western Northern Pacific Pressed Steel Car Republic Iron & Steel Southern Pacific Southern Railway Studebaker Texas Company Union Pacific and others with miscellaneous percentages and quotes.
Toledo reports butter 42 43 cents and eggs 40 cents fresh with country run 36. Hay values listed for timothy and alfalfa. Chicago market shows varied butter and egg receipts with price ranges. A humorous exchange features a lawyer offering a divorce for free if granted a monopoly on future cases.
Dialogue from American Legion Weekly features Tommy asking why he uses fingers at table and his mother scolds him. The exchange contrasts childhood curiosity with parental instruction about table manners.
Cattle receipts total 3550 with market slow and steer prices from 7.50 to 9.50 for good to choice. Calves steady to good to choice range 106.00 to 11.60. Hogs receipts 3700 with market steady to lower and packers paying 10.20 for good to choice. Sheep receipts 4300 market slow to good with clipping 4.00 to 6.00. Lambs slow and steady 14.00 to 14.50. Butter in tubs creamery 34c, dairy fancy 32c. No 1 packing stocks 26c, No 3 packing stocks 15c. Potatoes home grown 2.26 to 2.75 per barrel. Live poultry fowls 23c, roosters 13c, broilers 20c, ducks spring white 20c, colored 8c, geese young 14c 16c, old 8c 10c. Eggs fresh gathered extra firsts 34c, firsts 32c, ordinary firsts 29c, second 26c, nearby ungraded 5c.
Mintinguette warns about America after a U S visit saying Paris audiences are delighted and push her to sing the Marsellaise. She notes Americans work hard and she cannot decide which fault is worst.
Andre Pouvain head keeper at a park zoo was awakened by neighbors reporting a tiger on the loose. He armed himself with a whip and revolver and went outside as friends fled a guest hiding beneath a tiger rug.
London observers note a surge of missing items as travelers and residents lose hand bags umbrellas and parasols. The lost property office at Scotland Yard has installed new cupboards and shelves while handling about 17 600 articles monthly with few reclaimed.
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