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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1934
Page
9
A collection of bread and cracker recipes detailing methods for hot breads, mayonnaise crisp crackers, cheese spread biscuits, prune walnut loaf, and rye bread. Includes dough mixing, rising times, baking temperatures, and finish steps for crisp crusts and tender interiors.
New York stock prices show small movements with broad activity. Major names like American Telephone and Goodyear hover near unchanged as traders weigh year end crop reviews and forecasts for 1930. Reports of strong January production and a rising steel outlook fuel cautious optimism. Funeral services for Rev. Ignatius Wilkens, 79, poet and composer, set for Wednesday at St. Boniface Church in Louisville.
Eleanor Holm Jarrett, amid limited recent training, aimed for another record at the National Olympic Stars aquatic meet in the Miami Biltmore pool. She already bettered her world mark in the 10 yard backstroke, while Lenore Eight, Katherine Rawls, Ralph Flanagan, and Alice Bridges posted new marks the previous day.
Timecard listing for New York Central South and North, Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio shows daily schedules, arrivals and departures, with numbers for trains No 2 4 3 9 20 27 and Eastbound No 4 44 12 and service types National Limited Diplomat. It notes daily and Sunday exceptions and approximate times like 1059 am 4 pm 1208 am 1:35 am 12:36 pm.
A compressed ledger style extract lists figures for Liberties and Treasuries with series like 3%s 32-47 and 4th 4%ss 23-38, plus references to Home Own Loan products and numbers such as 101.97 and 99.23. The entries resemble financial shorthand typical of 1940s public notices, indicating rates, series, and page markers without narrative details.
The large clock on South Court Street in front of the Masonic Building, erected by C. Millikan as part of his jewelry business, is being relocated to the sidewalk in front of his optical rooms at 14 1-2 South Court Street. Millikan built the mechanism himself over several months, and erected the clock in 1905.
Market notes show eggs steady with nearby receipts 26 to 30 dozen, hennery whites large and pullets listed, butter creamery 31 to 32 cents, creamery extras 34 pounds, grain prices in Toledo with No 2 red wheat at 97 cents, corn values 90s to 91 and oats 83 to 90 cents, hay steady, and butterfat 27 cents. Pittsburgh eggs receipts cited near 27 to 30 cents for bearby and fresh extras 29 to 30 cents.
A local creamery's selling report lists varying butter and egg lots with percentages for extras firsts seconds and standards. It notes current receipts and refrigerated storage fractions, including multiple case counts such as 25 and 125, plus several percentages around 20 to 29 percent for different quality grades.
The market lists cattle with 500 active, higher grade feeders up to 50 cents, cows and bulls 25 higher, calves steady. Sheep run 1,090 head with fat lambs around 9.65 and good mutton up to 7.75, swelled by light weights and feeder demand.
Hogs mostly 25 higher than Saturday with loads 2.909 live and through trades. Cattle steady to higher. bulls 25 higher, most heifers 6.50 to 7.50, fat cows 3.25 to 4.50, calves steady. Sheep 300 head, late arrivals, generally steady to strong with better handyweight lambs.
River's weekly review reports 1933 saw steel ingots and castings total about 25.93 million gross tons, up 1.1 percent from 1933. Coke pig iron rose to 16.03 million tons, up 20.4 percent, with the year closing on a hopeful note for further improvement in 1935.
L A Ruth aged 80 died Saturday night at the family farm home in Lodi Township. Funeral Tuesday at 10:50 a.m. at Jerseyville Methodist Church with interment in West Union Street Cemetery Athena. He leaves two children D O Chapple Athens and C B Ruth at home. He also leaves a sister Ed Morrison Thornville and two brothers Herbert Bassett and John Shade.
Revival services at the Salvation Army draw a large crowd as Adjutant W W Hinahan preaches on righteousness. A string band plays special music and two more services are scheduled with Reverend Huff and Mrs Hinahan delivering sermons. Delegations from Jerseyville and Salem M E Churches are expected Tuesday night.
Salt Lake City reports a record for longevity within the Blood family descendants of Wil Ham and Jane Wilkle Hooper. No adult deaths in the line for over 72 years. The extended family includes 10 siblings and 158 descendants across generations, with Henry H. Blood, governor of Utah, among the relatives.
Automobile owners gathered at the office of deputy registrar C. L. Jordan in the courthouse basement to obtain 1935 license tags. The office planned a 4 PM closing, with a late night reopening from 7 to 9 PM for those without new plates, and would stay open tomorrow until noon.
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