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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1926
Page
11
Cattle and hog markets show receipts and varying prices across Cincinnati Chicago and other centers. Cattle receipts rise with steady to higher bids for beef steers and calves while hogs trade mixed withpacking and fat lambs near previous levels. Sheep shows steady tones with top fat lambs around 13.25.
Hogs receipts 2 100 slow market with top 811 486. bulk and medium weights cited at 11 40 to 11 80. sow and boar categories shown with rough pricing. Slaughter cattle and calves range from 8 25 to 13 00 for various weights and grades. feeders and stockers quoted 5 8 25. sheep and lamb values posted with light and common grades. Wool market in Boston quiet with Montevideo 58 by 40s at 40 cents grease in bond.
Dec 29 U Liberty 2nd 4%4s opened 101.3 bid 101.4 unchanged at 103.15 for Treasury 4 4's 12.31 up 1. Market tone steady with small shifts in listed government securities.
Butter receipts firmer at 11 007 with extras 53 4c 53c and special market price. Eggs receipts easy at 19 315 for nearby white fancy 58e 5c and mixed white and brown varieties around 50c to 60c as markets show varied prices.
Cleveland Butter extra 5c standards 4c all others unchanged. Chicago Butter receipts 8,001 creamery exit gate prices 49c firsts 30c seconds 42c. Market notes show price quotes and grade splits with typical processing terms.
Columbus December 29 If a train hits your auto you win damages but if your car hits the train you lose under a Supreme Court decision.
In Toledo on December 29, prices shown include Wheat No. 2 at 1391.40, No. 2 class T20 7ie, Barley No. 2 cash and futures around 22.75 and 20.40, December and February contracts. Timothy and Alsike forage bids appear with December and March figures, and hay priced at 25.00.
Confirmation that Mrs. Knute Houck Washington a former Ohio University student was made yesterday. She attended Ohio University in 1920 for one year and lived with Mrs. Elizabeth McGrath at 30 Franklin Avenue. She later went to Boston for a dietician course and disappeared after her husband was found insane in Hornell New York. She was seen in Oklahoma Monday.
Chicago, Dec 29. A double execution awaits two convicted murderers, James Gricius and Thomas McWane, on Friday morning unless last minute stays are granted. They pled guilty to the killings of Marie Blang, a Sunday school teacher, her escort Frederick Hein, and taxi driver Ludwig Rose in the same incident.
Columbus dispatch reports December 29 that the supreme court will decide which county Trumbull or Summit must support a deserted wife and her eight children. Each county has been trying to push the burden onto the other.
Central Ohio was enveloped in a wet snow blanket with about five inches falling overnight. Snow sweepers operated on most lines of Railway Light company. several routes were briefly impaired by heavy snowfall and dangerous slush as temperatures dropped below freezing leading to several minor accidents.
President Coolidge will speak at Trenton New Jersey to mark the 150th anniversary of the revolutionary battle. The address will be broadcast over Station WOR Newark tonight.
Two freight trains on the New York Central Railroad collided near Millersport. Nine empty coal cars and engines derailed after the southbound Corn ing train failed to pull into the siding to allow the northbound Bucyrus bound train to clear. Two brakemen were slightly injured.
Harvey Firestone of the American Firestone Rubber Company announced plans to invest 100 million dollars to develop newly acquired rubber properties in Liberia. He said the firm aims to create the greatest rubber plantation in the world and break the British world monopoly on rubber within seven years.
Licenses for 1927 are now available at the office of Thurman J. Morgan, clerk of courts. 1926 licenses are invalid for 1927 and buyers must purchase new permits. Several licenses have already been sold. The Classified section advertises economy purchase options and related fees.
An aging artist in Camdenville, Indiana fosters a complex tale of a mother who dies after giving birth to twins adopted as Margaret and Elizabeth, later known as Krusty and Betty. The wartime setting introduces Mike Hennegan, Nellie Downing, and a hospital mixup that ties to a missing identity of a wounded soldier.
Mary L Gourley, described as saying she never had a home, was arraigned for drunkenness and fined. The report notes this is her escth time in court for the offense.
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