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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1933
Page
11
A compact ad page lists local merchants and gift ideas. Mentions Nelsonville Ohio merchants including The Carpenter Hardware Co and Summers & Son. Highlights two tone sweaters at Pansy’s Shoppe and Yardley’s dresser sets with cosmetics at Clines. Also features Philco radios, hand woven articles, compact cigarette case gifts, overnight cases, and beauty services at Varsity Rose Salon.
The Ohio Beer Commission, under advisement, weighs suspending the Forest City Brewing Company of Cleveland. The license action stems from charges the company failed to pay taxes and misrepresented to customers that the bottle stamp tax was unnecessary due to an arrangement with the State Tax Commission.
Local ads promote home gifts including radios from Philco to $65 and battery sets from $20. Parker Bros Music Store features used sets as affordable presents. Zenners displays a Super-Prigidatre radio and an assortment of tables from $1. Summers and Son Music Store offers piano sale options.
An ad fragment mentions a Maytag washer for a mother, a “TRY OUR” call, and choice cuts of meat from Union Grocery run by Mrs. W. Hanning. The text is incomplete with scarce, non-specific details.
T. P. Eiselstein and son Victor spent Wednesday in Huntington on business. Mrs. H. B. Smith of Lincoln Hill left Thursday for Columbus for several days. Miss Miriam Blackmore and Mrs. Harry Oblinger were in Columbus on Thursday. H. J. Blackmore the county auditor spent a few days there this week and returned with Ott Kreinbibl. Theodore Ebernbach left Tuesday for a business trip to Miami Florida.
Middleport reports Hollis and wife move from J N Humphrey residence on Routh Sixth Avenue to Huntington early next week. Their son Gene will winter with grandparents in Rutland and enroll there Monday. Mr Gardner will work for a Huntington baking company after leaving Covert Bakery. Also a fire destroyed a barn owned by Arthur Singer at Morning Star last night. cause not given.
William Baipum and Jerry Cum mings were fined five dollars and released each Wednesday by Mayor Robert Wood on intoxication charges. They were arrested Tuesday night on Court Street by Capt. Charles Maple and Patrolsmen Leslie Brad field.
Columbus December 7 Governor White asked police authorities and the State Highway Patrol to permit the use of 1004 automobile license tags at once to help newly re employed people who lost work and now need transportation to and from work. Previously December 10 had been set as the date for optional use of the new 1934 license tags.
Speculative incentive lacking and the market stays in a fractional range as the R F C gold price holds at 34 01 for the sixth day. Bonds ease while mining and some industrials show small gains and losses in a quiet session. Dun and Bradstreet index shows modest shifts across commodities.
Five fishermen were reported missing today after a Pacific storm that caused four deaths along the coast from California to Alaska. Rain fell across the Northwest, and multiple Cascade passes were blocked, crippling transportation in the region.
Citizens of Bucyrus voted to keep New York Central Railroad shops in town, defying a 50-year contract and rejecting a $25,000 offer for the railroad property and equipment as too low, asserting their value is far higher.
SpringfieldMass December 7 authorities say James Cole 23 of Springfield confessed to assaulting a woman aboard a bus at Chester New York after a robbery. He alleged his white confederate Nicholas Waypovich of Springfield aided in the attack on Miss Harriet Richards Pittsfield beauty parlor operator.
Application for probate of Clifford Kelley’s will follows a fatal crash near Hamden. The will allocates 500 to Nora and Ruth, with the remainder to Marie. The Dunfee will leaves the entire estate to Grace, with eventual division to Ivory and Rosie Fay after her death or remarriage. Marion A. Potter is sole beneficiary of W L Potters will filed today.
Butter unchanged and live poultry prices steady for young guineas and gobblers. Market shows little movement with weights noted around 2 pounds for guineas and 12 pounds for gobblers, no dramatic shifts observed.
Fragment of market notes on butter with prices, receipts, and storage charges. Mentions 106 lb stock and grade statuses, with figures for fresh graded firsts and current receipts. Includes terms like storage standards and storage extras and various percent figures for the market.
Market brief reports butter extras at 26 percent, eggs steady with various white and brown extra prices. Current receipts show 21 cents and fresh poultry listed around 14 cents per pound.
A historical market listing shows current receipts from Southern Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky with prices for poultry colors hens turkeys and geese. Entries include fresh extra firsts 25036¢ per unit and hog dressed 20c with various weights and old roosters 40 Tc.
Boston wool dealers report steady firm prices with limited volume and strong demand for fine and fine medium grades. Buyers expect higher prices soon as Ohio Delaine and similar wools fetch 35 to 36 cents clean and greasy wool within a tight market. Territory grade fine combing wools show diverse prices around 55 to 63 cents clean depending on grade and bleed factors.
A garbled ledger style listing shows prices for livestock grain and bonds. Entries mention wethers yearlings calves and fat stock with price ranges and down payments, plus grain figures for corn oats rye and wheat and assorted government bonds with bid quotes and yields. The text reads like a dense tail of a late page market summary with no coherent narrative.
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