Night Classifieds Offer Quick Local Deals
A fragmented notice hints at local ads and listings for readers seeking bargains tonight. Listings feature phone numbers 6734 and 3312 for quick contact and ongoing offerings in the newspaper.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1928
Page
9
A fragmented notice hints at local ads and listings for readers seeking bargains tonight. Listings feature phone numbers 6734 and 3312 for quick contact and ongoing offerings in the newspaper.
Classified notices announce a Glouster to Athens bus service with departures at 6 30 a m and 1 30 p m from Athens and 9 15 a m and 4 15 p m from McConnelyville Also a grocery store ad notes strong business and a 66 acre farm with a good building on a hard road and city listings
Close: Wheat 1.624 Corn No 3 O26 00% Oat No 2 Clover cash 117.00. Butter 46¢. Cheese 28¢. Milk price 1.20 cwt.
Hog receipts ranged 250 to 250 pounds with prices around 8.50 to 8.85 per cwt and top quotes near 9.10. Cattle receipts 30 to 150 with market steady. Sheep receipts 400 with fat lambs 16.50 to 16.90 and bulk fat lambs 16.50 to 16.60. cull lambs around 12.00.
Hog receipts totaled 4500 with prices from 7.05 to 8.68 for 160 to 200 and 30 to 160 lb ranges. Cattle receipts 300 with beef steers 10.00 to 12.50 and heavy calves 12.00 to 15.50. Sheep receipts 50 with top fat lambs at 16.00 and fat ewes 40.00 to 76.00.
The list records varying prices for Butter Eggs Cheese Poultry and sacks of potatoes and oats in multiple regional markets. Prices shown include Butter 46c per tablet, Eggs firsts 30c to 32c, Cheese bricks 28c to 42c, Poultry heavy fowls listed, sacks of potatoes with per hundredweight ranges, and oats or barley figures around 2.50 to 3.75 per 100 pounds across Maine Minnesota New York Michigan Wisconsin Idaho.
Receipts total about 1 000 with market steady for fat lambs and cattle. Hog prices show 4 500 head and calves weaker by around 50 cents, with beef cattle and sows mixed across weight classes. Sheep and lambs command mid-teens for fat ewes and vealers in the mid-teens to $18.50.
A resident of Athens County laments the Jacksonville agreement, claiming it causes soup kitchens, schoolchildren in secondhand clothes, and debt for miners and merchants. Irvin Nanna urges unity among miners and operators to resist division and unfreeze mining operations.
You can brighten your good rugs by wiping them with a cloth dipped in warm suds. Rub away dirt with fresh cloths to restore shine and cleanliness.
The Philadelphia model Peggy Burns, daughter of a Pennsylvania coal man, is reported to have inherited 500000 from her grandfather. She says she plans to continue working and not quit her job.
The notice lists daily departures from Athens with southbound service at 7 22 am and 12 26 pm and a service by 4 33 pm. It outlines train numbers 7 ay and 1 leaves and notes general departure times for travelers.
Athens police issued a lookout for Luther Hunter a 37 year old Black man about five feet six inches tall and 145 pounds with two gold teeth. He was last seen in a dark suit and is wanted in connection with a Dayton police officer’s death shot around 10 o’clock last night.
A street car and a taxicab collided in Cleveland injuring two men seriously. Twenty people aboard the street car were shaken up.
A garbled telegram style note from an old sports page phrases possible trades and players. Mentions Tex and Whit Dempsey, Rickard, O Goofty, fits and Johnny, Nick Altrock, Miller Huggins, and the Yankees at Hot Springs. Contains scattered names and uncertain plans with no clear outcome.
Two men named Frank and Claude gen from ington Pennsylvania were arraigned before Magistrate Carl Porter on charges of training. They pleaded guilty and were fined and imprisoned. R J Spangler of New York and Howard Webster testified. One man faced a $300 fine for aiding a train incident.
The Ohio tennis tournament proceeds at the Central Armory with matches continuing through the weekend. Players from several clubs compete for top honors and local spectators are invited to watch.
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