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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1933
Page
11
Fragmentary notice recalls ads aiding item recovery after crowds. Mentions holiday losses, local effort, and community help in identifying objects lost in busy periods. References places and people in a nostalgic local paper tone.
A roundup of gift ideas from local shops. Knitted bedroom slippers at 98c from Pansy’s Shoppe, handwoven articles from The Churchhill Weavers, radio sets from Parker Bros. Music Store, and a Super Prigidaire display at Zenners New Radio and Electric Dept. Tables from Furniture Factory Show Rooms. Summers and Son Music Store offers pianos on balance due. Wheaton’s Hardware promotes toasters as a gift option.
Union Grocery advertises TRY OUR Choice cuts including mest steaks and sausage. Main offer highlights a Maytag washer for a mother named Mrs Stephen Thomas.
New York stock trading opened higher but soon turned quiet with mixed results. Rails led gains while distillers fell. utilities, oils and motors showed limited moves. Commodities eased as Dun and Bradstreet index edged up from earlier lows.
Nelson orders printing of location cards for service bureaus to guide transients to central pickup points in railroad yards police stations and Meces. Athens shelters house about 190 per month with up to 18 in a night and 950 housed since March. County and state quotas rise as Ohio accelerates toward employment goals adding emergency projects and 20 000 workers to total county quotas.
Cantons brewers and distributors from Northeastern Ohio voted to maintain a minimum beer price of 15 dollars per barrel until a brewing industry code is drafted and approved. Thousands of workers in Canton walked off the job as bus drivers’ strike paralyzed the city’s transportation.
Mr and Mrs Lowell Christman of Crooksville announce the birth of a daughter to Ann on Tuesday November 2. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Frank Tribe of Albany and Mr and Mrs C Chiuluen of Crociteville.
Cincinnati report: honors went to the South in the opening title at the seventh annual American Bridge League tournament. Mrs Humphrey Wagar of Atlanta and Fred Levy of Montgomery won the mixed pair event.
Cleveland salesman C. D Souders lost a half mile race beyond the Children’s Home to Patrolman Dwight Robinson after being arrested for speeding six miles over the limit on East State Street. Mayor Robert S. Wood fined Souders for the haste.
The Athens County Petroleum Committee surveys 310 filling stations and bulk plants that sold 4 909 450 gallons of gasoline last year. Ten two man teams examine posted prices premiums paid for patronage and pay and hours to ensure code compliance. A report is due later this week and violations will be prosecuted or referred to the state committee.
Prices for butter and eggs remain unchanged. Live poultry shows minor variation with guinea fowl young at 2 pounds and 35 to 40 cents, gobbies at 12 pounds and over 19 to 20 cents.
Butter packing stock price 6c per pound for butter fat 1c. Eggs steady with cases included. firsts 25c, seconds 200c nearby ungraded 2c. Butter market weak with extras 25 percent. standards 24c per lb. In tubs and bags market steady. Extras whites 21c browns 23c. Current receipts 21c. fresh pullets 180.
Eyes Market shows steady receipts with ex tra firsts at 24e and fresh graded firsts at 22¢. Butter Market reports unsealed receipts 5100 and extras 204%. Storage standards listed at 17% with storage extras 18 92, extra firsts at 19019% and firsts at 16. 18%. Second and standard categories appear with various cents and percentages.
Butter and cream prices listed with various grades and weights. Poultry section details hens, leghorn, springers, old roosters, ducks and geese with price per pound and shop terms. Also notes fresh killed and dressed birds with fixed rates and certain regional receipts.
Hog receipts reach 2500 with top at 3.75 or 0.30 lower for bulk 170 to 250 lb. 3.78 for 250 to 360 lb. 140 lb averages around 3.25 and 110 lb pigs at 3. Packing Iowa receipts 2.50 245. Cattle receipts 50 top and steers Monday 5.40. Calves receipts 200 lower with bulk vendors 7. Cull to common 2.0 4.50. Sheep receipts 600 strong market for spring lambs around 7.25 with throw outs 5.50 and culls to 2.50 with odd lot ewes at 3.25.
Hog receipts 500 with direct 37 and holdovers 360. prices steady to strong with tops 225 and 260 to 900 lb ranges. Cattle receipts 600 and calves 400. most steers and heifers 3.25 to 4.75 with fed kinds 5.62 to 5.75. beef cuts 2.25 to 3. Cattle and sheep market generally steady to strong. lambs 6.50 to 7.0 and other items trading at varied lower to mid ranges.
The report shows varied grain quotes with wheat, corn, oats, rye and seed prices across multiple grades and months. It notes a generally fair demand for wool in Boston, with prices firm and up in the high range for fine and fine medium grades.
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