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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1926
Page
7
A week of strong money flow and rising investment activity indicates improving U S business conditions. Building permits rose about 9 percent nationwide with gains in New York Detroit Philadelphia San Francisco Seattle and southern cities.
New York February 22 All speculative and commodity markets banks and retail outlets are closed for the most important winter holiday outside Christmas. European markets stay open but business is contracted. French British currencies quoted only against each other. The February slowdown mirrors seasonal retrenchment, not a general business slide.
Receipts: hogs 40 000, cattle 19 000, sheep 15 000. Hogs steady to 25c higher. bulk steady at 11.50 to 15.50, top 14. Cattle firm with calves steady. steers 9.50 to 11.75, cows 4.50 to 8.50, bulls 4.50 to 7.50. Sheep 2c to 10c higher. lambs 12.75 to 13, feeder lambs 13 to 13.75. Market tone cautious amid varied grade results across groups.
Cattle supplies 900 with market steady. primes around 9.50 to 9.75, good 9.25 to 9.75, common 6 to 7. Heifers 6.50 to 7.75. fresh cows and springers 30 to 100. veal calves 7 head, market steady. Sheep and lambs supply 2500, steady to lower. good 10, lambs 13.75. Hogs receipts 5000, market slow to higher. prime hogs 12.25 to 12.50, heavy 12.70 to 13, mediums 14 to 14.10, light workers 14.10 to 14.25, pigs 14.10 to 14.25, stags 6 to 7.
Cleveland February 22 A wide search for James and Leon Lyons alleged slayers of Frank McGrath a Cleveland detective of the American Railway Express company was renewed today after Huntington Indiana advices established that two suspects there were not the Lyons brothers Norwalk Ohio detectives inspected the Huntington prisoners and said the two men picked up there were not the fugitives.
Charged with intoxication, Toter Fields of Athens denies drinking in front of Okey Hall's restaurant as Mayor Alex Moore learns of a pending $50 fine from a prior arrest. Fields admits whiskey intake earlier but contests payment and suspension details. case continued until 7 tonight in Mayor Moore's absence.
Mr and Mrs Noah Brown hosted a birthday party for their son Jack Rennard Brown in Trimble. Guests included Charles and Rennard Gross of Athens and many local neighbors. The event ran from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday afternoon to celebrate the occasion.
A conference may end the Moroccan war and is planned for late February in Algeciras. High officials from Spain France and the Riffs are expected to attend.
William W. Porter spoke at Ewing Hall on Christian Science revealing Mary Baker Eddy as founder and detailing the science’s divine Mind healing, its rejection of matter, and its contrast with material medicine. He urged adherence to true Love and the Healing Principle in Science and Health.
The passage contrasts Christian Science parenting with drug and surgery choices, calling existence mysterious and urging relation of thought to the divine Mind. It promotes freedom from downward tendencies and a larger concept of Life and being, ending with a hymn-like pattern urging truth to one’s high ideal.
Frank Nero, described as a negro, pleaded guilty to insulting Mrs. Louise Lasure and was fined $26 plus costs in Justice of Peace Carl Porter's court. The affidavit says Nero offered a ride and cursed her after she declined. Deputy Sheriff arrests followed as readings list other DUI and intoxication cases with fines of $50 and $10 respectively.
Washington February 22 government moves to reorganize the United States weather bureau to supply quicker meteorological data for aviators. A Calvert committee proposes shifting observation hours to 6 a m and 6 p m and adding seventeen upper air observatories along principal air routes for better aerological forecasts.
Akron police seek William Smith, 46, charged with manslaughter after pouring scalding soup down his wife's back during a kitchen quarrel a month earlier. She died in hospital late last night after initial intoxication charges and fine.
John Nolan, 60, was found dead at his Lake More home Sunday with heart failure given as the cause. He had been a longtime proprietor of Nolan's beer garden near Summit Beach and was well known in the region.
Miss Helen Drummond, physical culture teacher at Osterberg Training College in New York, warned bobbed hair harms posture by causing uncontrolled head movements as the hair is constantly tossed back.
Barbara Hawley uncovers Miss Furnivall dead from gas in her Manhattan office. Daisy Olivero hands her a samovar theft tie to a staged life. Barbara attends a studio party where Ramon Donizelli flirts as the scene shifts from danger to further intrigue.
Barbara leaves a crowded party after a tense confrontation with Ramon and Miss Olivero. She heads through Manhattan, works at a magazine in March, and later meets Fancy McDermott in New York, going to Fancy’s stylish Riverside Drive apartment for dinner and talk.
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