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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1928
Page
9
Congress will consider the Kellogg Peace Pact amid debate on its merits and obligations. The administration signals continued pursuit of pacific alignment despite opposition to certain provisions.
United Press reports the Navy cruiser construction bill remains stalled in the Senate as opponents push treaty priority. Debates include the 15 cruiser program and a three year completion, with Norris King and other Democrats seeking changes while Coolidge objects to time limits.
Public notices and advertisements fill columns with lost items and rewards, vehicle sales, services, and household needs. Listings include strayed items, automobiles for sale, repairs, insurance, real estate, coal, cooking ranges, and employment ads, showing local business and daily life in Athens area.
A dense classified section lists used cars and parts from multiple sellers including McFarland's Garage, Stratton Motors, and Nel sonville Buick Co. along with trucks, tires, and batteries. It also features home goods like coal, heating stoves, hardware, groceries, and real estate rental notices for Nelsonville Athens area properties.
An OCR fragment lists animals for sale including fox terrier pups, horses or vehicles, two cows a Jersey and a Holstein with calves, poultry and poultry supplies, cattle and poultry trade items, and a local produce company contact in Athens. It notes prices for pups and cattle and includes vendor names and locations such as Cline New Marshfield Bowers Athens Dorsey Bolin Shade Ohio and McKinstry Produce Co. Athens.
Hogs show a steady market with prices around 8.90 for mediums and 8.30 for workers. Receipts are light for calves and for sheep and lambs as well, with a steady trend overall.
Cattle receipts 350 with calves at 175 and market steady to slightly higher. Beef steers around 8.50 to 13.14 with various weights and classes. vealers 12 to 16. fat lambs 15 and bulk lambs 8 to 12. Hogs and sows quoted from 6.75 to 9.25, with feeders and cutters noted. market mixed across categories.
East Balo Livestock market shows hogs receipts 3,600 holdover 200 slow at 25 or lower. Curds include 250 to vada in 50 and 32 250 Ibs at 9.25 per lb. Cattle steady with beef steers 11.25 to 11.50. yearlings and heifers 11.75 to 14.75. beef cows 8.40 to 10.00. packing sows 7. Sheep receipts 2,800 with bulk lambs 11.50 to 16. None. Details note varied weights and prices across hogs, cattle, and sheep trades.
Philadelphia report states Clayton Craig struck Edward Morgan 28 last night. Morgan was knocked from his shoes but kept his derby hat on and walked away uninjured.
Investigators focus on former Santa Fe employees as possible wreckers of the Missionary train near San Bernardino California. Assistant general manager M. J. Mackie his wife and attorney W H Burbage traveled in a special car when the derailment occurred. Mackie survived with minor injuries three cars overturned leaving 176 passengers mostly unhurt while Mrs Mackie and Burbage were seriously injured.
Real Estate listing for 164 acre farm five miles east of the Gan features good buildings and asks 3500 dollars. Insurance and Real Estate Agency is the listing agent.
The probate court of Athens County Ohio suspends hearings on listed accounts until January 7 at 9 am. Executors and administrators named include William D Shingler John H Mohler Daniel McBride Marvin Linscott Sarah Morris The Bank of Athens N B A Hiram E Howe C H Harris George Holdren Nellie Smith and other estate filings with dates in 1928.
Butter steady with tablets at 49 50 cents, creamery items in several grades. Prices show 2 percent merchandise at 4 cents, stock numbers No 1 at 3 cents and No 2 at 5 cents, butter fat 51. Includes 36 cent extra lettuce cases and 35 cent seconds with fresh goods available. nearby grades implied.
Fragmented OCR listing shows dozens of company names and percent figures, including J Ty Merriman Com, New York, Continental Oil, Radio Corporation, Willys Overland, and U S Steel. The page reads like a stock table with fluctuating percentages and partial names, lacking coherent narrative or dates.
Chauncey Dover High School alumni invitation dance will be held this evening in the K of P Hall Chauncey with music by Don Figgins orchestra.
Buckingham Palace reports indicate King George has a slim margin of safety as he fights illness. He showed restlessness and little sleep, but officials say no immediate danger and view the setback as a normal part of his condition. Recovery progress remains uncertain, with cautious hope for the next few days.
Allentown police report the partly burned arm of a young woman found in a Cementon dump by two high school girls, Adele Wachter and Francine, during a walk. Detectives from Allentown questioned the girls and nearby residents about the discovery.
Frank M. Kennedy aged 70, a former Fayette County surveyor, died in Washington after a brief illness. He served as county surveyor for 22 years.
Pittsburgh livestock receipts around 4 000 with hogs at 9.15 to 9.50 per cwt and sows 7.50. New York produce shows flour dull pork firmer hog prices mixed. sugar near 96 cents raw. cheese steady 27 to 29 cents. Poultry prices listed for fowls ducks and chickens with varied cwt values and states.
An advertisement promises a 1 percent return on a $4,500 investment in unspecified assets. It suggests trading for a house named Buck & Burk and provides a phone number 851 with unclear context or legitimacy.
Ambulance service offered with phone numbers Pomeroy 8631 R and Rutland 285 k. Lost bag traveling between Hobson and Union Depot, return to M Gregg Middleport 583-L with reward. Auto service ad claims per gallon, station in Middleport. Battery exchange offer and related repairs. Farber Iron Co. mentioned and an item about radio reception improvements with new electric models.
A fragmented listing of produce and poultry prices from Cleveland, detailing butter, eggs, poultry weights and prices, car pentry seat items, and potatoes. Notable items include turkeys at 40, various fowl prices per pound, and 10 to 100 lb sacks for potatoes with prices around $1.65 to $2.25.
The sheet shows mixed cattle and sheep quotes with beef steers around 111.25 per hundredweight and cows near 74 to 84 dollars, vealers about 1 to 2 dollars, and lambs around 12 dollars. Sheep receipts run around 1,200 with a firm tone and buyers noting higher bids on some lots.
Marietta residents oppose Standard Oil plans to install two 3,000 gallon gasoline tanks at the Second and Worcester Street station. Neighbors fear for life and property and will bring the issue to city officials, as the company replaces smaller storage tanks with the new units.
Salvatore M. Lo Presti and Epport A. Zannoni of the Lo Presti Company will be given preliminary hearings before U.S. Commissioner M. J. Monahan tomorrow on charges of selling sherry wine in Cleveland.
Berkeley scientist G. D. Turnbow announces warm ice cream able to match user temperature. He says rapid freezing at unusually low temps creates smaller crystals, potentially transforming winter ice cream demand. Demonstrated at the California and Southwestern States Ice Creamers Association convention.
influenza is the cause. Arthur McVay died at his home in Logan Friday morning. He was a former Albany High School graduate and for ten years a Logan mail carrier. He leaves his wife Norema Conner McVay and his parents Mr. and Urens Way, who were joined by Gene Potter of near Albany for the funeral plans. No definite arrangements announced.
London dispatch reports the King, ill for over five weeks, shows no change in condition this afternoon after a brief note of improvement earlier today. Official bulletin at 3 05 p m confirms the lack of progress, keeping anxiety high among doctors and the public.
London reports 29 inmates to be paroled in January by the Ohio Board of Chem and Superintendent W F Amrings at the prison farm. Thirteen cases were continued. Two paroles were revoked and one inmate restored to parole.
Train No 33 leaves Athens at 1 18 PM with schedule note for other service at 6 30 PM.
Washington brief the Federal Trade Commission dismissed a complaint charging the National Cash Register Company with unfair competition. The action ends the case with no further stated penalties or actions.
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