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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1928
Page
9
A busy classified page lists offerings from Athens implement and auto firms with used cars Buick Ford and Dodge models, TIRE AND TUBE sales, painting and moving services, milling supplies including white minorca chicks and mixed aggregates, and various consumer goods such as cough syrups and beauty creams. It advertises local business names and phone numbers for quick inquiries.
Miscellaneous ads list used cars tires and wiring services by Auto Tire and Gas Co, Nelsonville shops selling linoleum, hats, welding and machine work, groceries and bakery items at Model Home Bakery, special bread sale, plus Ohlinger Wolfe and carpentry items.
Market notes show butter futures steady as traders weigh supply signals and demand outlook. Analysts note prices hovering near the 1.30 level with steady activity and cautious trader sentiment in early trading sessions.
Receipts show bids and prices for cattle and hogs with ranges for weights from 130 to 160 pounds. Figures include 200 head noting rates around 8.40 to 8.88 per hundredweight and 6.00 to 7.50 for lighter stock.
A garbled snippet lists dairy and poultry items with prices like 2740 for fresh gathered extra firsts and 350 for ducks and geese. Nearby ungraded Beuer ducks appear, with unclear spellings and quantities.
A fragmentary livestock market update shows calves priced 25 to 50 units lower while vealers bring 13.50, and lambs around 14.60 with a sale value near 18 000 for a lot. Postings reference ages and weights in partial figures.
Fresh fruit prices fluctuate from 1 to 2 cents with presenterings at hand. Butter remains steady with prints and tubs quoted at 47 to 49 cents per pound. Eggs from current farm receipts at 28 cents.
The item lists butter categories in Chicago with prices for extras seconds and ordinaries. Values include 40c to 42c for seconds and 11,401 and 5c 26c for others, reflecting varied grades and quantities.
Mrs Blanche Turner 46 wife of Harry G Turner died at Fleming on Monday afternoon after a three week illness. A native of West Virginia she had formerly lived in Amesville and Fleming. She was a member of the Amesville Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband a son Carl Turner her mother Mrs Mary F McKinney of Fleming and a brother Bert McKinney of Boonton New Jersey.
Lumber dealers from six counties of the sixth district of the Ohio Retail Lumber Dealers association will gather in Hotel Berry Athens Thursday. Represented counties are Athens Hocking Meigs Gallia Vinton and Jackson. D A Bardin of Athens is district chairman and H F Kittle of Glouster is district secretary.
Corning James Fleming is reported at his home here. Coach Cady attended Perry county basketball finals at Crooksville Tuesday. Miss Dorothy Moore was a business visitor in Athens Tuesday. Mrs. Wendell Love spent Monday with her mother in Hemlock. Mr. Emmett Rodgers was a business visitor at New Lexington Monday. Richard Earle Rodgers spent Monday in New Lexington. AIRMAN KILLED TOKIO Feb 29 Yukichi Goto 28 one of four Japanese airmen chosen for a Japan Seattle flight in July was killed today when his plane crashed on a Kyushu hill during a test flight.
Members of the senior class at Canaanville High School will present a two night play at the high school building. The production titled The City Fel will be performed Thursday and Friday evenings, with proceeds likely benefitting class activities.
NEW LEXINGTON Feb 29 J L Meenan treasurer Perry county American Red Cross appeals to Senator Willis Congressman Underwood and the National Red Cross for aid. Immediate need 1500 pairs of shoes for school children 6 to 18 stockings and underwear. The Red Cross feeding 1100 children daily while county resources are exhausted in drives across towns. OGootty notes the Phillies start the season in the National League but recalls past finishes. Nine Brooklyn Robins are listed.
The report outlines Democratic and Republican maneuvers in several states with mentions of Senator Reed and Governor Lowden. It notes Dewey era figures like Dawes and Hoover as factions shaping the race, and references party tensions over prohibition and ballot access.
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