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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1922
Page
9
Classified advertising rates and office details for Athens Messenger and Nelsonville Bart. Notes on insertions to multiple streets and special discounts for 3 and 12 month periods. Obscure text lists various ads including wanted buys trades and services with uneven legibility.
The list catalogs numerous American companies with fractional gains or losses in midweek trading. Notable entries include Atchison, Lackawanna Steel, Norfolk and Western, Reading, Southern Railway, Studebaker, Union Pacific, U S Industrial Alcohol, Westinghouse, and Utah Copper with mixed percent shifts.
Chicago market news shows received cattle and hogs with varying prices. Hog receipts 31,000. top $10.40, heavy weights around $10.30 to $10.40, sows and packers mixed. Cattle receipts 12,000. prime bids near $9.85, cows and bulls 2.50 to 6.75, veals and feeders listed. Sheep receipts 10,000. lambs 14 to 15 dollars, yearlings about 10.50, ewes down to 6.60.
The Sunday Creek traction line will extend from the depot on Central avenue to the Court house downtown. A new up to date bus will run free to all using the traction line, seating twenty nine passengers. It will depart in time to meet every car and no extra charge will be made. Delivery is expected soon.
Philip Nelson aged 14 and Paul Nelson aged 13, brothers from Zanesville, are held in the county jail awaiting transfer to the juvenile court in Zanesville. They ran away Friday, reached Citysville Tuesday, were aided by Mrs. Ed Lockhart, and were brought to Athens by Probation Officer Alderman after alerting Juvenile Judge Johnson. Elmer Shelton of Nelsonville appointed to administer Thomas Shelton's estate, who died February 2, leaving an estate of 202 dollars.
Cincinnati cattle receipts total 600 with steady market and good to choice steers at 6.56 to 7.60. calves up 60 cents to 12.18. hogs receipts 26 cents higher with good to choice at 16.50 to 17.50. Sousep 800 receipts with market good to choice at 46.7. Samuel 500 higher with good to choice 14.50 to 16.00.
Pittsburg February cattle receipts 26 with steady market. Cattle ranges include choice 8.50 to 8.76, prime 8.80 to 9.25, heifers 4.60 to 6.78, veal calves 13.60, springers 40 to 80, hogs 9.50 to 10.26, sows 8.50 to 9.50, roughs 7.50 to 8.50. Sheep and lambs receipts 400 with steady market. wethers 8.50 to 9.00, lambs 16.00, ewes 2.50 to 4.00.
Grain and produce figures from Chicago show buttercreamery extra at 36 4 cents, packing stock 16 7?e, firsts 81 5. eggs ordinary 82 330, firsts 35 we, miscellaneous 3434 percent.
Judge Hugh K. Nichols of Cincinnati and former Ohio Supreme Court chief justice will be guest of honor at Athens First Presbyterian Church Friday banquet at 5 45 pm. He will discuss The Centenary of the Birth of Ulysses S. Grant after the dinner served by Mrs Bogies division of the Friendly Society. Attorney J P Wood will preside and introduce Nichols. tickets should be passed to others if unused.
Toledo market notes list several grain prices dated February 14 with wheat at cash 1.41 to 1.48 May free July 1.27 corn cash 60 oats cash 42 to 44 rye cash 99 cents barley cash 6 cents clover seed February and April cash plus October 12.45 state cash and ven 12.45 March 12.00 various oats and timothy prices for February March May 8.25 8.50.
A morning blaze at Dr. Ben R. Mc Clellan’s private hospital in Xenia Ohio forced the rapid removal of all patients including a woman on the operating table. Fire units contained the flames and no injuries were reported.
Prof. C. L. Martzolff stereopticon lecture at the college auditorium Friday night has been recalled due to a scheduling conflict with the John Hancock play.
Luncheon tickets for the faculty alumni event Saturday are selling quickly with only 200 remaining. Secure your seat now before all tickets are gone.
Skyrocketing wheat prices on the Chicago board of trade boost Canadian farmer profits. Canadian farmers stand to gain about 20 million dollars more from the 1921 crop than expected in December as prices rise about 35 cents per bushel from the low December level.
Police expressed concern that a death may be hidden in the blast aftermath after fragments of clothing were found in a tree near the wreckage on Walter Purser’s farm outside Toledo.
Fragmentary text notes Cuba and months, implying ongoing pain or hardship. No clear events, dates, or persons are legible enough to confirm specifics.
Samuel W. F. Draper of the New York Transfer Company notes baggage truck operations cost 210 percent more in New York than Philadelphia. He contrasts the two cities, saying New York is crowded with crime while Philadelphia remains quiet and peaceful, and that wagons can be left on streets with some security in Philadelphia.
Blizzard conditions pound the New Jersey capes as navy officials fear a submarine scheduled to depart League Island Navy Yard for New London may face difficulties offshore. Strong winds and heavy snow hamper efforts to clear the approach, raising concerns for the vessel's safety.
Senator Poindexter of Washington proposes a $16.2 million appropriation to complete all authorized relocation work in the middle West and Southwest. The plan aims to fund ongoing relief and development projects following earlier allocations, signaling a broad federal effort to advance infrastructure and services in affected regions.
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